Hi
I'm building a new PC and I've put together part of it. I read that it's a good idea to do a power test before you have everything in place so that problems will be easier to troubleshoot and to save some work if things aren't working. Right now I am running the following:
XIGMATEK HDT-S1283 120mm Rifle CPU Cooler
GIGABYTE GA-X48-DS4 LGA 775 Intel X48 ATX Intel Motherboard
ABS Tagan BZ Series BZ800 800W ATX12V / EPS12V Patent Piperock Modular Power Supply
A-DATA 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model ADQVE1B16K - Retail
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale 3.16GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor Model BX80570E8500 - Retail
all of this is in a NZXT Tempest case.
The case cables (power, reset, 2xUSB, eSATA, HD audio, hdd led) are connected to the mobo. (side question - if the mobo manual says nothing about which sata port to connect an eSATA cable to, does it matter?) The 24pin and 8pin power cables are connected to the mobo, and the heatsink fan is connected to the cpu fan connector on the mobo. I also have one case fan and one case LED connected to the psu.
When I press power after turning on the psu, everything lights up and the fans start moving for about a half second, and then everything turns off. If I press power again, nothing happens. If I turn off the psu, and then press power again, the pc turns on for a half second again. (there are never any beeps)
My questions are:
Should I be performing a power test at this point in the build?
Is the fact that it turns off after a half second a bad thing or could it be caused by the fact that I haven't installed the other components yet?
Do you have any ideas why this is happening and/or what I can do to fix it?
Thanks for any comments
I'm building a new PC and I've put together part of it. I read that it's a good idea to do a power test before you have everything in place so that problems will be easier to troubleshoot and to save some work if things aren't working. Right now I am running the following:
XIGMATEK HDT-S1283 120mm Rifle CPU Cooler
GIGABYTE GA-X48-DS4 LGA 775 Intel X48 ATX Intel Motherboard
ABS Tagan BZ Series BZ800 800W ATX12V / EPS12V Patent Piperock Modular Power Supply
A-DATA 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model ADQVE1B16K - Retail
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale 3.16GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor Model BX80570E8500 - Retail
all of this is in a NZXT Tempest case.
The case cables (power, reset, 2xUSB, eSATA, HD audio, hdd led) are connected to the mobo. (side question - if the mobo manual says nothing about which sata port to connect an eSATA cable to, does it matter?) The 24pin and 8pin power cables are connected to the mobo, and the heatsink fan is connected to the cpu fan connector on the mobo. I also have one case fan and one case LED connected to the psu.
When I press power after turning on the psu, everything lights up and the fans start moving for about a half second, and then everything turns off. If I press power again, nothing happens. If I turn off the psu, and then press power again, the pc turns on for a half second again. (there are never any beeps)
My questions are:
Should I be performing a power test at this point in the build?
Is the fact that it turns off after a half second a bad thing or could it be caused by the fact that I haven't installed the other components yet?
Do you have any ideas why this is happening and/or what I can do to fix it?
Thanks for any comments