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Motherboard DOA?
BenMCOB
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I put together a new PC for a friend of mine yesterday with the following parts:
Unfortunately when I turn it on I can't get any video output from either the onboard motherboard graphics or the actual graphics card. When I power it on all the fans, lights and other whirly gigs (hard drives) all power on and start spinning so at least know that everything's powered on.
There's no warning beeps coming from the PC speaker so I'm guessing that I've either hooked everything else important up correctly or the motherboard's gone to the point where it's only passing power around. Alternatively the PC speaker is also broke, but I don't think I can test for that.
I've also tried moving the RAM stick to another slot, disconnecting both hard drives fully and removing the graphics card, with no result. I've also tried removing and replacing the processor just in case I'd messed that up to, but the fact that the Thermal paste has smeared itself around seems to show that power's been running through that at least.
I'm completely at a loss here and the only thing I can guess at this point is that the motherboard is somehow non-working but still transferring power around as needed.
Does anyone have any clue what I could be doing wrong, or at the least if I can figure out whether the motherboard is truly dead and send it back?
- Motherboard - ASUS P7H55-M H55 Socket 1156 VGA HDMI Out 8 Channel Audio MATX
- Processor - intel Core i3 530 2.93GHz Socket 1156 4MB L3
- Ram - Corsair 4GB DDR3 1333MHz
- Graphics - XFX HD 5750 1GB DDR5 DUAL DVI DISPLAYPORT HDMI Out PCI-E
- Hard drive - Hitachi Deskstar 0S02573 1TB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm
Unfortunately when I turn it on I can't get any video output from either the onboard motherboard graphics or the actual graphics card. When I power it on all the fans, lights and other whirly gigs (hard drives) all power on and start spinning so at least know that everything's powered on.
There's no warning beeps coming from the PC speaker so I'm guessing that I've either hooked everything else important up correctly or the motherboard's gone to the point where it's only passing power around. Alternatively the PC speaker is also broke, but I don't think I can test for that.
I've also tried moving the RAM stick to another slot, disconnecting both hard drives fully and removing the graphics card, with no result. I've also tried removing and replacing the processor just in case I'd messed that up to, but the fact that the Thermal paste has smeared itself around seems to show that power's been running through that at least.
I'm completely at a loss here and the only thing I can guess at this point is that the motherboard is somehow non-working but still transferring power around as needed.
Does anyone have any clue what I could be doing wrong, or at the least if I can figure out whether the motherboard is truly dead and send it back?
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I had a similar behaving board quite a while ago. Can't remember if it was dead bios battery or failing to connect the fan monitor connections.