Just Built a New PC - No Beeps, No Video - HELP

[FireStorm685]

I just built a new PC and when I tried to boot it up for the first time all of the fans and LED's come on and everything looks like it should be working but I don't get any video on the monitor I don't even get a post code. Here is a list of all the components I put into it please HELP.

Thermaltake VA8003BWS ATX Full Tower Case with 25CM Fan
Intel D975XBX2 Intel Core 2 Duo Ready Socket 775 ATX Motherboard
Thermaltake W0131RU 850W Toughpower Power Supply
4GB of Kingston ValueRam 800MHz DDR2 Non-ECC CL5 DIMM
PNY XLR8 8800GT 512MB DDR3 Graphics Card
Lite-on 20X DVD+/-RW LightScribe SATA Drive
Core 2 Duo E6750 Processor
Western Digital WD5000AAKS 500GB 7200 Rpm 16MB Cache SATA Hard Drive

[flanzig1]

Would try an out of case build as suggested in this thread: http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.php?t=132409

[FireStorm685]

OK, I tried to do an Out of Case build but I get the same result, the CPU, PSU, and Graphics Card fans are all spinning and the Green light next to the Power Supply connector is lit but I don't get any beeps or video. I then tried to turn it on without the Graphics Card to see if it would beep since there would be no other way for it to display messages to me and still not a sound I also noticed that each time I went to turn it on the second I hit the power button a red light next to the 4-pin power connector on the motherboard would go on and then off really fast I don't know if that means anything. Well I hope somebody can give me some tips I think it's a bad Power Supply, CPU, or Motherboard what do you guys think.

[Cricket]

So you've got the motherboard out of the case with just the bare minimum parts installed/connected and you still can't get the system to boot up? At this point I would try another compatible power supply just to see if yours is the problem or not.

You might want to pull the sticks of RAM out of the memory slots and try to boot up (with or without the video card) just to see if you can get a response from the system...sometimes a bad stick of RAM will keep a computer from POSTing.

Cricket

[FireStorm685]

I think I found the problem, after doing some research I discovered that the D975XBX2 Motherboard doesn't support the E6750 Processor because it uses a 1333 MHz FSB but the motherboard only supports 1066 or 800 MHz. So the E6700 should work but I think I'm going to get the Q6600 because it's cheaper on Amazon and the motherboard supports it.

[Alaron]

I'd switch the motherboard instead. You're locking yourself in with an older chipset and won't be able to upgrade down the road. Check out the Asus P5K boards.

[Panama Red]

Originally Posted by Alaron I'd switch the motherboard instead. You're locking yourself in with an older chipset and won't be able to upgrade down the road. Check out the Asus P5K boards.

Excellent advice. And I might suggest removing some of that ram during the OS load. Unless you're going to be running XP 64bit or Vista 64bit, you won't be able to use all of it anyway. XP can be quite picky about ram configurations during install.

[FireStorm685]

IT WORKS!!! I finally got it to work after replacing the motherboard and it works perfectly. Thanks for all your help, here is what my final setup is:

Thermaltake VA8003BWS ATX Full Tower Case with 25CM Fan
Abit IP35 Pro Intel P35 Socket 775 Motherboard
Thermaltake W0131RU 850W Toughpower Power Supply
4GB of Kingston ValueRam 800MHz (Only sees 3.326GB)
Diamond Viper ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT PCIE 512MB GDDR3 Video Card
Lite-on 20X DVD+/-RW LightScribe SATA Drive
Core 2 Duo E6750 Processor
Western Digital WD5000AAKS 500GB 7200 Rpm 16MB Cache SATA Hard Drive
Windows Vista Home Premium (32-bit)