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I built this computer, and when i turn it on, the system fan starts to spin the dvd drive apparently has power and the fan on the video card spins as well, nothing appears on the monitor and the cpu fan does not work. I am out of ideas as to what is wrong. Is the problem with the cpu? If not what could be the problem, and if anybody has a fix that would be appreciated.

Apex PC-390 ATX Black Mid-T Case, LG dvd drive, WD Caviar Green 1TB 32MB/SATA-3G, patriot 64GB Solid State Hard drive, ULTRA 2048MB PC5400 DDR2 667MHZ x2, Intel Pentium Dual Core E2200 2.2Ghz 1MB 800Mhz, Gigabyte G41M-ES2L Intel G41 Socket 775 Motherboard, EVGA GeForce 9500 GT 1GB PCI, Ultra LSP750 750w Power Supply

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did you plug in the CPU fan?

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do you have your video cable running from your video card to your monitor? (i.e not attached to your mobo, but to your dedicated card)

check everyhting is seated correctly, if it all is try removing your video card and hooking up your video cable to your mobo, if it boots then your vid card i broken.

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Just an stupid question. you connect the power cable to the mobo?

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yes, the power cable to the mobo is connectedw

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Message edited by icedemon on 11-02-2009 at 09:52:15 AM

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welshmousepk wrote :

yes it was attached, i removed the card and connected the monitor to the vid card, nothing happened still, everything appears to be seated correctly.

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Attila_the_pun wrote :

did you plug in the CPU fan?

yes the cpu fan is plugged in

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1) You should have two power cables installed on the mobo. Do you?
2) From this post:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/foru [...] _13_0.html

follow the excerpt below, and then the other instructions in the post:

"Pull everything except the CPU and HSF. Boot. You should hear a series of long single beeps indicating memory problems. Silence here indicates, in probable order, a bad PSU, motherboard, or CPU - or a bad installation where something is shorting and shutting down the PSU.

To eliminate the possiblility of a bad installation where something is shorting and shutting down the PSU, you will need to pull the motherboard out of the case and reassemble the components on an insulated surface. This is called "breadboarding" - from the 1920's homebrew radio days. I always breadboard a new or recycled build. It lets me test components before I go through the trouble of installing them in a case.

If you get the long beeps, add a stick of RAM. Boot. The beep pattern should change to one long and two or three short beeps. Silence indicates that the RAM is shorting out the PSU (very rare). Long single beeps indicates that the BIOS does not recognize the presence of the RAM.

If you get the one long and two or three short beeps, test the rest of the RAM. If good, install the video card and any needed power cables and plug in the monitor. If the video card is good, the system should successfully POST (one short beep, usually) and you will see the boot screen and messages.

Note - an inadequate PSU will cause a failure here or any step later.
Note - you do not need drives or a keyboard to successfully POST (generally a single short beep).

If you successfully POST, start plugging in the rest of the components, one at a time. "

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icedemon wrote :

yes, the power cable to the mobo is connectedw

Both power connectors ? 20/24 pin and 4/8 pin ?

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Message edited by swifty_morgan on 11-02-2009 at 06:10:58 PM

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swifty_morgan wrote :

Both power connectors ? 20/24 pin and 4/8 pin ?

yes both power connectors, a 24 pin and a 4 pin

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twoboxer had some good suggestions. Did you try any of them ?.. The hard drive has power and cable pushed all the way in ? Did you try a different SATA connector on the board ? Can you swap in a different video card or power supply. Maybe a mother board would be too much to ask ? Does the mother board also have a 4pin molex connector ? Depending on hardware you may have to plug one in if there's a f-plug for it on the board.

I never used Ultra memory. Do you have another brand and/or another speed..(DDR2800 etc.) to try...... No, go visit neighbor for a cup of DDR2..... lol..... I haven't tried an SSD yet. Is there a jumper on it like an SATA drive ?.... set to 1.5.......

Message edited by swifty_morgan on 11-03-2009 at 02:24:40 AM

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Unmount the mobo and mount again.

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