Sorry, it's a bit of a story but I'll try to keep it short.
I bought a Gigabyte mobo from MSY (australian store, notorious for crap customer service). I installed everything but it kept rebooting after 3 seconds, never stayed on for longer than 3 seconds.
So I tried the following:
- breadboarded it
- reapplied cpu fan with new thermal paste
- used my RAM chips on my friends computer (they work fine)
- used my PSU on my friend's computer (it works fine)
- used my GPU on his computer (works fine)
- made sure all power connectors were in place
I noticed one thing, the pc speaker wasn't making beeps, just clicking noises (but the speaker works fine on my friends computer).
The only thing I didnt try was putting the hard drive in (which
Finally, i bought a new motherboard from a different store - worked ace (that's the one I'm using now).
Took the old Gigabyte (assumed broken) into the store, 3 days later they tell me it all works fine. I suspect foul-play, I think they're lying to me and want to just get the $30 service charge for nothing.
Any ideas? the main thing I want to mention is that I didn't have the hard drive plugged into the Gigabyte mobo when I tried everything else - being a newbie, I'm not sure, does it matter? isn't it at least supposed to boot without the hard drive?
thanks in advance
I bought a Gigabyte mobo from MSY (australian store, notorious for crap customer service). I installed everything but it kept rebooting after 3 seconds, never stayed on for longer than 3 seconds.
So I tried the following:
- breadboarded it
- reapplied cpu fan with new thermal paste
- used my RAM chips on my friends computer (they work fine)
- used my PSU on my friend's computer (it works fine)
- used my GPU on his computer (works fine)
- made sure all power connectors were in place
I noticed one thing, the pc speaker wasn't making beeps, just clicking noises (but the speaker works fine on my friends computer).
The only thing I didnt try was putting the hard drive in (which
Finally, i bought a new motherboard from a different store - worked ace (that's the one I'm using now).
Took the old Gigabyte (assumed broken) into the store, 3 days later they tell me it all works fine. I suspect foul-play, I think they're lying to me and want to just get the $30 service charge for nothing.
Any ideas? the main thing I want to mention is that I didn't have the hard drive plugged into the Gigabyte mobo when I tried everything else - being a newbie, I'm not sure, does it matter? isn't it at least supposed to boot without the hard drive?
thanks in advance