Help Please !!!!

turned off the PSU
removed GFX card
removed the battery
disconnected power cables (wide and 4-pin) from mobo
waited for 5 mins
put everything back
turned on

NO CHANGE - no beep yet !!
 
Anyway, try removing all yr components besides the CPU, MOBO, RAM. Take off the cables to your optical, hard drive, take off 1 stick of ram, just to get it past post (1 beep)
Make sure you have both power connectors, (large rectangular AND square) plugged onto mobo.

*** EDIT: if your system does not beep with the cpu and ram connected, there's most likely a hardware failure.
 
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one question, is all this hardware brand new of the box ?
 
xeo57 said:
Did u remove the battery?

Anyway, try removing all yr components besides the CPU, MOBO, RAM. Take off the cables to your optical, hard drive, take off 1 stick of ram, just to get it past post (1 beep)
Make sure you have both power connectors, (large rectangular AND square) plugged onto mobo.

*** EDIT: if your system does not beep with the cpu and ram connected, there's most likely a hardware failure.
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gonna try
 
can't think what else could cause the prob, maybe faulty MOBO - anyway goodluck - nothing frustrates me more than a pc that does not wanna play along:)
 
well the good news is you are not alone with that issue, the bad they didn't fix it either
http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=447418

and as i said check the manual to see if you HAVE to set the bios jumper from 'reset/sleep' to 'normal' - once had a m/b that you had to chance that on the first startup to have it work as it was factory default to save battery life.
 
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Necuno said:
well the good news is you are not alone with that issue, the bad they didn't fix it either
http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=447418

and as i said check the manual to see if you HAVE to set the bios jumper from 'reset/sleep' to 'normal' - once had a m/b that you had to chance that on the first startup to have it work as it was factory default to save battery life.
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???
 
what is more likely to be the hardware failure ?

- faulty mobo
- faulty CPU
- faulty RAM

Is it "easy" to crack or damage the CPU when installing the heatsink and fan on the CPU ?

... and is it worthwhile removing the heatsink and fan to "have a look at the condition of the CPU ?
 
The easiest component to waste is the mobo. CPU and ram are tough boys, unless you hit them with static, or drop them then they're history. I have setup lots of machines, not once did the CPU or ram fail. Alot of times the mobo failed tho. Good luck man ;)
 
Dude. there are only 3 things that could cause the problem after testing all above.

1. Dead motherboard (more likely)
2. Dead CPU (unlikely, unless damaged during installation (bent pins)
3. incompatible Power Supply (test the PC using another PSU)
 
tested with another PSU and it is same thing ... gonna try to disconnect the CPU tomorrow and see if there is any visible damage anywhere ...

Thanks for all your help guys ... time to call it a day.

Cheers
Vic
 
Just a bit of useless info. Check the USB ports, esp. the front ports, that they are not shorted out. I had the same problem a while back....cost me buying 2 new PSU's, and a new motherboard, before I saw that one port had shorted out.
 
What about the jumper on the mobo? I built my ancient pc a few years ago... didnt start up initially until i found that the default jumpers on the mobo were not correct.
 
My mobo fried by lightning 1 week ago, and it had the same symptom as what you descripted. Power on, NO BEEP, only CPU and PSU FAN turns.......
 
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