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Built my first custom PC today. Got everything situated right and...

IT DIDN'T BOOT!!!!

Couple hours later and I'm getting the RAM ready to send back

So sad, was excited to see what my baby could do.

oh sad day

lol

Owned

cuchulainn wrote:Built my first custom PC today. Got everything situated right and...

IT DIDN'T BOOT!!!!

Couple hours later and I'm getting the RAM ready to send back

So sad, was excited to see what my baby could do.

Thats what makes building PCs so fun. The troubleshooting <3

1 of the trial and errors in life.

Welcome to Custom PC building. If you have another 99 fail on you, you can join the club!

it's joymax's fault.

Good luck with your baby

Ok Here comes Dangos Stupid And Obvious Questions

1# the Power Connecters on the motherbored ARE THEY WIRED UP CORRECT
EG THESE

These Are EXTREEMLY Important.

2# If you have a new motherbored you will need to format windows.

3# is it switched on.

#4 have you got the correct type of ram
anything that can give me a clue will help

I didn't need to format windows when I got a new mobo..

that sucks for you

tha suks, i am glad i didnt build my computer cuz i know i will **** it up beyond imagination

Vandango wrote:Ok Here comes Dangos Stupid And Obvious Questions

1# the Power Connecters on the motherbored ARE THEY WIRED UP CORRECT
EG THESE

These Are EXTREEMLY Important.

2# If you have a new motherbored you will need to format windows.

3# is it switched on.

#4 have you got the correct type of ram
anything that can give me a clue will help

1. Everything is wired up correctly (I took 2.5 hours to put it all together and as I went I wsa double and triple checking my connections). The little LED and power button leads are a bitch to connect, but they are all connected correctly

2. I know that, but to install windows, the BIOS needs to boot.

3. I'm not a dumbass.

4. Yes, all the components were matched when I picked them out (ie, the mobo takes DDR2 800 RAM but can be OCed to DDR2 1066, but I bought DDR2 800 RAM)

Every time I booted up, I got 3 beeps and no video. The possible BIOS for my mobo are AMI, Award or Phoenix. Mine (and another friend's conclusions) was that based on the beep code (3 beeps of the same tone), it was AMI since it didn't match Award codes and the Phoenix ones are much more complicated. 3 beeps = base 64k RAM failure. I tested each stick separately in every slot to no avail. RMAing the RAM today, hopefully will have new sticks early next week.

cuchulainn wrote:4. Yes, all the components were matched when I picked them out (ie, the mobo takes DDR2 800 RAM but can be OCed to DDR2 1066, but I bought DDR2 800 RAM)

Every time I booted up, I got 3 beeps and no video. The possible BIOS for my mobo are AMI, Award or Phoenix. Mine (and another friend's conclusions) was that based on the beep code (3 beeps of the same tone), it was AMI since it didn't match Award codes and the Phoenix ones are much more complicated. 3 beeps = base 64k RAM failure. I tested each stick separately in every slot to no avail. RMAing the RAM today, hopefully will have new sticks early next week.

Thats what you get for buying cheap ram or you might of shorted out the ram with static.

Vandango wrote:

cuchulainn wrote:4. Yes, all the components were matched when I picked them out (ie, the mobo takes DDR2 800 RAM but can be OCed to DDR2 1066, but I bought DDR2 800 RAM)

Every time I booted up, I got 3 beeps and no video. The possible BIOS for my mobo are AMI, Award or Phoenix. Mine (and another friend's conclusions) was that based on the beep code (3 beeps of the same tone), it was AMI since it didn't match Award codes and the Phoenix ones are much more complicated. 3 beeps = base 64k RAM failure. I tested each stick separately in every slot to no avail. RMAing the RAM today, hopefully will have new sticks early next week.

Thats what you get for buying cheap ram or you might of shorted out the ram with static.

RAM was 43 bucks for 2 GB. Brand is OCZ. Prolly should've gone with Corsair or Crucial, but the rebate on the OCZ put those over the top. Oh well. Pretty sure I didn't screw them up with static (was using wristband and handling everything by the edges most of the time). Couple of other people on Newegg said they had to RMA as well, but once they got working sticks, everything worked fine. Guess I just got unlucky.

EDIT: Maybe I should just spring for some Corsair or Patriot RAM today and I'll get it sooner than it'll take to RMA my other RAM. Then if the second set of OCZ doesn't work, I'll just go for refund, if it does, then I have 4 GB of RAM.

EDIT2: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820227139
That's the OCZ RAM I've got.

Yea just cheap stuff 2gb is good to go for.
4gb is only good for high end games. not like you really need that much for low end stuff. 2gb is plenty for photoshop, sro And stuff.


cant wait to get my new machine which im ordering when i get paid.
what other parts did you order?

Vandango wrote:Yea just cheap stuff 2gb is good to go for.
4gb is only good for high end games. not like you really need that much for low end stuff. 2gb is plenty for photoshop, sro And stuff.


cant wait to get my new machine which im ordering when i get paid.
what other parts did you order?

Got some pretty pimping parts for around $800 total once I get the rebates done.

Monitor: Acer 19" Widescreen - At least I can use this with my laptop for nice widescreen shit

Mobo: MSI P43 Neo3-F LGA 775 Intel P43 ATX Intel Motherboard

Video Card: EVGA 512-P3-N800-TR GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0

HD: Western Digital Caviar 250 GB

PSU: OCZ 600W

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 Wolfdale 2.53GHz 3MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor

EDIT: Just checked my bank account, looks like I'm waiting until I sell my Mage or get paid again to buy anything else (gotta leave some money for food, hehe)

uhh dude you should always have atleast 1k in bank incase of an emergency -.-

Squirt wrote:uhh dude you should always have atleast 1k in bank incase of an emergency -.-

LOL.

I'm a college student, I NEVER have 1k in bank.

In case of emergency, I can always talk to parents, but I usually just avoid emergencies instead.

You were lucky, I shorted my new pc lol. Like an idiot i put the mainboard directly on the case.. but i got it to work about 2 weeks later

Sharp324 wrote:

cuchulainn wrote:Built my first custom PC today. Got everything situated right and...

IT DIDN'T BOOT!!!!

Couple hours later and I'm getting the RAM ready to send back

So sad, was excited to see what my baby could do.

Thats what makes building PCs so fun. The troubleshooting <3

you don't even need a custom computer to get problems:
Me and my bro did a restart on my PC because after 3 years it suddelny had a WLAN program.
(we restarted it 4 times )

Shimrod wrote:it's joymax's fault.

Good luck with your baby

windows is the problem