So my issue is this. I put together a homebuilt system at Christmas, the power supply was just a factory 500w one, but the build worked fine.
A couple of weeks in, the PSU blew. I purchased a Corsair CX500, and installed it. The computer powered up, but there was no display. After a lot of playing around I gave up.
Cut to now. I decided to try this again, so after lots of googling of the error, I found the thread on here with the checklist of things to try. I got down to breadboarding and with just the Motherboard, CPU and HSF (and of course, the PSU), I was hearing no alert beeps indicating the missing RAM.
Naturally, I presumed this to be a motherboard issue so I purchased a new one.
Breadboarding this in the same state as mentioned above yielded the 3 beeps indicating missing memory. (At this point, then, it is safe to assume the CPU and Motherboard are fine, right?).
I placed in the RAM, but the same problems arose as before. There was no display, no post beep. Following the checklist again, this indicated a possible bad PSU. But to be sure, I tried different RAM combinations and eventually purchased more RAM to test this too... Same problem.
So, I purchased a new PSU and even more RAM today (just to be safe) and I am *still* not getting the POST beep nor any display. All I get is the three warning beeps when there is no RAM installed.
At this point, the only thing constant is the CPU, but if this were faulty, surely there would be no beeps at all? (Or so the checklist leads me to believe).
If anyone could help, I'd be massively grateful. Here is a list of the components etc... for before and current.
Original:
Corsair CX500 PSU
MSI AMD AM3 770 Motherboard
AMD Phenom II X4 960T Black Edition Quad Core Processor
Corsair XMS3 RAM 4GB (2x 2GB Sticks) 1333mhz.
XFX HD 6770 HD GPU
Samsung 160gb SATA HDD
Current:
Win Power+Plus 800w PSU (Or Corsair CX500 PSU)
MSI 760GM-P23 Motherboard (AM3+)
AMD Phenom II X4 960T Black Edition Quad Core Processor
Corsair XMS3 RAM 4GB (2x 2GB Sticks) 1333mhz. (Or Crucial Ballistix PC3 4GB kit (2x 2GB Sticks)).
XFX HD 6770 HD GPU
Samsung 160gb SATA HDD
(The stuff in brackets is stuff I still own and have tested with various different combinations and set ups).
I think that's everything, if anyone has encountered this problem and can help at all, I would be extremely grateful. Literally pulling my hair out as a solution seems unreachable.
A couple of weeks in, the PSU blew. I purchased a Corsair CX500, and installed it. The computer powered up, but there was no display. After a lot of playing around I gave up.
Cut to now. I decided to try this again, so after lots of googling of the error, I found the thread on here with the checklist of things to try. I got down to breadboarding and with just the Motherboard, CPU and HSF (and of course, the PSU), I was hearing no alert beeps indicating the missing RAM.
Naturally, I presumed this to be a motherboard issue so I purchased a new one.
Breadboarding this in the same state as mentioned above yielded the 3 beeps indicating missing memory. (At this point, then, it is safe to assume the CPU and Motherboard are fine, right?).
I placed in the RAM, but the same problems arose as before. There was no display, no post beep. Following the checklist again, this indicated a possible bad PSU. But to be sure, I tried different RAM combinations and eventually purchased more RAM to test this too... Same problem.
So, I purchased a new PSU and even more RAM today (just to be safe) and I am *still* not getting the POST beep nor any display. All I get is the three warning beeps when there is no RAM installed.
At this point, the only thing constant is the CPU, but if this were faulty, surely there would be no beeps at all? (Or so the checklist leads me to believe).
If anyone could help, I'd be massively grateful. Here is a list of the components etc... for before and current.
Original:
Corsair CX500 PSU
MSI AMD AM3 770 Motherboard
AMD Phenom II X4 960T Black Edition Quad Core Processor
Corsair XMS3 RAM 4GB (2x 2GB Sticks) 1333mhz.
XFX HD 6770 HD GPU
Samsung 160gb SATA HDD
Current:
Win Power+Plus 800w PSU (Or Corsair CX500 PSU)
MSI 760GM-P23 Motherboard (AM3+)
AMD Phenom II X4 960T Black Edition Quad Core Processor
Corsair XMS3 RAM 4GB (2x 2GB Sticks) 1333mhz. (Or Crucial Ballistix PC3 4GB kit (2x 2GB Sticks)).
XFX HD 6770 HD GPU
Samsung 160gb SATA HDD
(The stuff in brackets is stuff I still own and have tested with various different combinations and set ups).
I think that's everything, if anyone has encountered this problem and can help at all, I would be extremely grateful. Literally pulling my hair out as a solution seems unreachable.
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