Trouble Shooting Paulonius' PC

[Paulonius]

MB is ASUS P6T

http://usa.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=QtpKQuERkuYw6trc

Graphics Card is GEForce GTS 250

http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gts_250_us.html

Case is NZXT Tempest Evo
http://www.nzxt.com/products/tempest_evo/

The case has two sound leads, both are ten minus one pin female.  One is HD. Both fit on the lower left pin set on the MB, but appear to be connected to inputs on the front of the case.  I don't think it has a pc speaker.

When I turn it on, the power comes on and stays on, but I have a black screen, no bios.  Because no speaker no beeps.

The LEDs on the MB for Power Reset are both on. They stay on if the PC is powered off, but still plugged in an switched on in the back.

[Masscre]

Can you take a photo of your system as you have it hooked up just so i can see it?  digital camera or cell phone?

[Cerveza]

Ok, basics... how many sticks of RAM do you have? I'll assume 2, you should have them in slots DIMM A1 and DIMM B1.

You don't have onboard graphics so you need a graphics card installed. On page 2-21 it shows the slots, you need to use a blue slot. Normally it's the one closest to the CPU.

Do you have the CPU fan connected to the right header? If so, does the fan come on when the power is turned on?

You have 2 power connections on the MB, one is the long one that is right of the CPU, the other is that 8 pin one above the CPU, you must have both plugged it.

Looks like system speaker is 4 pins... and it doesn't matter which way as long as they are on the right spot on the MB.

[Masscre]

The lack of video is defanately due to a conflict.  I am thinking also remove the memory (the Simms or Dimms).  The system my not be coming on to the fact of the second power connector.  I did find the two power connectors on the motherboard there are 2. A photo might point me straight to the problem though but we can make this simple also. Get ride of anything not essential to the video.  Could be a system problem if the cooling fan is not connected  or the CPu fan is not connected, but again a photo would help us find this.  I say connect PS, MB, CPU, Fan, Video card and nothing else. Remove those ram chips.

[Paulonius]

I didn't connect the ATX 4/8 pin power to the MB and the book says it won't boot without that. Should I stick in four or eight?

[Paulonius]

THANK YOU to 12X, Cerveza, Mass, EN, TM MadDog and the rest of you who talked me into and through this.  I won't order a prebuild system again. 

Both pictures are from before I attached the four pin ATX per Cerv's brilliantly intuitive suggestion.

[Coragin]

LOL attach the power plug!

And I read this one wrong at first, "Trouble Shooting Paulonius" I was gonna suggest getting a better gun or a scope

[Masscre]

So you got it running? What OS did you install? What you think about it?  Have you get a winmark bench on it yet?

[Paulonius]

I did get it running.  As soon as I plugged in the four pin it fired up and I loaded windows 7.  It's running great and is crazy fast compared to what I have been using.  I did notice though that Windows 7 appears to still have a pretty significant bug: it won't run external USB hard drives.  I have not done a winmark bench yet, but I will run one and post it today.

[Masscre]

There is a patch or update for the external usb hard drives, but I do dislike Vista and her cousin 7 alot they suck up resources bad to do the same thing xp could do with a few gig of ram they do with 9 gig AHHHHH.

[Paulonius]

I tried to find a winmark prog to download and test the system, but I can't seem to locate one. My first priority is to get this computer protected.

Anyone know what the recommended formula is for protecting a system?

I have been using ESET on my other computers. Is that enough?

[Masscre]

NOD32 from ESET is an awesome antiviral program and requires almost no resources so yes it is damn good.  Been using it since my days of going bareback and it has kept me from all kinds of nasty stuff.