So my brother bought parts and we put his computer together. I had built my own with the help of a friend before so i was pretty confident in my ability to put this thing together. Although there were a couple speed bumps as it had been a year or so since I built mine. We had the MOBO mounted incorrectly, without standoffs...newbie mistake haha. Then we took it all apart and mounted it correctly and pieced it back together but it still was not giving any video output but all the fans were running including the CPU and GPU.
so i reset the CMOS using the 3 pin switch on the MOBO and gave it some time. after switching back the pin connector I turned it on and got the BIOS to show up!! it recognized both 4 gig sticks of RAM installed as well as the CPU and GPU. It even recognized the mouse and keyboard plugged in as well as the Flash drive we were attempting to boot Win. 7 from. But unfortunately it didnt give us an option to load it from the flash drive. so we turned it of and made sure we had the flash drive formatted correctly and such. but when we turned it back on it wouldnt POST. so i tried to reset the CMOS again via both the 3 pin switch and taking out the MOBOs battery, but still nothing...
this is where i am pretty stuck. i have gone through all of the steps in the following link and have no idea what the problem could be!
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/261145-31-perform-steps-posting-post-boot-video-problems
I have reseated all the parts although i dont know how it could be a hardware issue as BIOS showed up detecting all of the parts just fine that one time. i have checked and double checked connections. I have a speaker attached to the MOBO but there have been no beeps except for when i entered BIOS that once. i have tried booting with none of the front panel wires connected and jut shorting the power button pins that made no difference either. really at a loss here. As I stated I have gone through the no POST checklist and everything seems to be in order. Heres a list of the parts:
ASRock 970 EXTREME3 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157280&nm_mc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel&cm_mmc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel-_-Content-_-text-_-
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor HDZ965FBGMBOX
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103727&nm_mc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel&cm_mmc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel-_-Content-_-text-_-
Crucial M4 CT064M4SSD2 2.5" 64GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148441&nm_mc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel&cm_mmc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel-_-Content-_-text-_-
GIGABYTE GV-R667D3-1GI Radeon HD 6670 1GB 128-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125403&nm_mc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel&cm_mmc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel-_-Content-_-text-_-
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-8GBRL
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231314&nm_mc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel&cm_mmc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel-_-Content-_-text-_-
RAIDMAX HYBRID 2 RX-630SS 630W ATX12V V2.2/ EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready Modular Power Supply, New Version with Build-in LED Fan On/Off Switch
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817152035&nm_mc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel&cm_mmc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel-_-Content-_-text-_-
Do you think the motherboard could have gotten fried when we mounted it wrong and if so why would it still be able to POST afterwards? could it be the PSU?? so frustrated PLEASE HELP!!!
so i reset the CMOS using the 3 pin switch on the MOBO and gave it some time. after switching back the pin connector I turned it on and got the BIOS to show up!! it recognized both 4 gig sticks of RAM installed as well as the CPU and GPU. It even recognized the mouse and keyboard plugged in as well as the Flash drive we were attempting to boot Win. 7 from. But unfortunately it didnt give us an option to load it from the flash drive. so we turned it of and made sure we had the flash drive formatted correctly and such. but when we turned it back on it wouldnt POST. so i tried to reset the CMOS again via both the 3 pin switch and taking out the MOBOs battery, but still nothing...
this is where i am pretty stuck. i have gone through all of the steps in the following link and have no idea what the problem could be!
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/261145-31-perform-steps-posting-post-boot-video-problems
I have reseated all the parts although i dont know how it could be a hardware issue as BIOS showed up detecting all of the parts just fine that one time. i have checked and double checked connections. I have a speaker attached to the MOBO but there have been no beeps except for when i entered BIOS that once. i have tried booting with none of the front panel wires connected and jut shorting the power button pins that made no difference either. really at a loss here. As I stated I have gone through the no POST checklist and everything seems to be in order. Heres a list of the parts:
ASRock 970 EXTREME3 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157280&nm_mc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel&cm_mmc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel-_-Content-_-text-_-
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor HDZ965FBGMBOX
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103727&nm_mc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel&cm_mmc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel-_-Content-_-text-_-
Crucial M4 CT064M4SSD2 2.5" 64GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148441&nm_mc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel&cm_mmc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel-_-Content-_-text-_-
GIGABYTE GV-R667D3-1GI Radeon HD 6670 1GB 128-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125403&nm_mc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel&cm_mmc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel-_-Content-_-text-_-
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-8GBRL
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231314&nm_mc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel&cm_mmc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel-_-Content-_-text-_-
RAIDMAX HYBRID 2 RX-630SS 630W ATX12V V2.2/ EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready Modular Power Supply, New Version with Build-in LED Fan On/Off Switch
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817152035&nm_mc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel&cm_mmc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel-_-Content-_-text-_-
Do you think the motherboard could have gotten fried when we mounted it wrong and if so why would it still be able to POST afterwards? could it be the PSU?? so frustrated PLEASE HELP!!!