Please Help My New Rig Won't Show Anything!

[aneo82]

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Here is my new rig's specs

- Lian li pc-65

- ASUS P4C800-E DELUXE -RETAIL

- Antec 550 Watt Power Supply

- Intel Pentium 4/ 3.4C GHz 800MHz FSB

- ATI RADEON 9800PRO 128MB DDR

- Kingston HyperX Series Dual Kits 184 Pin 1GB(512MBx2) DDR PC-4000

- Western Digital 120GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive 8mb

- Lite-on 8X DVD+RW/-RW Drive, Model ND-2500A, OEM Bulk

- Plextor 52x24x52 CD-RW Drive, Model PX-W5224TA/SW, Retail

 

As you can see these cost me a pretty penny! now it doesn't WORK!

 

 

OMG... I have been trying to install my rig since 8 pm yesterday (I slept at 5:00am). But it doesn't work! Please help...really guys, I'm kinda desperate and dunno wut to do now. please HELP

 

I've put everything correctly or as it seems.

1. After struggling a couple of times, I've finally gotten my pc to boot and it shows up on monitor booting up and then Bios. My hardd drive wasn't detected at all (SATA here) I was fiddling with it when my younger cousin came in and press the POWER BUTTON! grrrrr. ok so its off now.

 

2. afterwards, before booting I put the psu sata power to my 2 wd 120gb hdd. To my surprise afterwards, the power turns on, you can see agp lights, the heatsink fan movin, but NOTHING on my monitor screen! It pauses like 30 secs gives me blank screen of course and then gives me 4 quick BEEPS, tried reconnecing everything once again from scratch (from mounting mobo to the end *except for installing cpu n heatsink*). SAME THING HAPPENS @#$)@#$! Nothing on screen, Pause for 30secs or more and then 4 quick beeps and still nothing!

 

Guys... please help I have no idea what is going on. I'm so frustrated right now especially worrying that something bad has happened ?? Man... I'll appreciate all of your help very much...

[Special_K]

OK First of all calm down, it doesn't seem like you broke anything as long as everything was installed correctly. Plus p4's have a built in function where they shut off if they get too hot; so your ok there too.

 

That being said, I havn't dealt with p4's too much other than my friend's who has the same board and its not working either. His will do the exact same thing though, but we're in the process of testing the components to be sure what is causing it.

 

You system looks awesome, and should OC like no tomorrow. The only thing I can think of to do right now is to test the components individually if possible. Stick the ram in a board you know works and test that, try the SATA drives on another board if you can. My guess is that something is wrong with SATA because a lot of the new controllers have had problems with the stock bios. Of course, it could be anything right now. You may have even gotten a bad board (in which case all you have to do is RMA it). Also, be sure to double check everything that you have there, all the connections, all the power cables, make sure you have both of the ones to the mobo plugged in; basically the general stuff you may have covered already.

 

I'm sorry I can't help you more, I just noticed this thread wasn't getting any replies so I thought I'd add one to bump it a little so someone with more experience with p4's can help you out. Let me know if you tried the above, and if my friend's computer gets to working I'll let you know how we fixed it. Good luck!

[asus]

Ok.. dont panic.. go hear HEAR

 

Than hear

[Nuclear]

Have you checked your ASUS manual for beep codes? Those 4 beeps you are hearing should tell you what your system is doing.

 

HDD Failure shouldn't cause a system not to boot. It should at least POST, and then give a "No HDD or OS found" message. If your CPU was bad, you should get a "CPU changed or unrecognzible" error. I would bet your RAM or video card isn't seated properly.

 

I would carefully remove all the componets from the system. Install the CPU and HSF, RAM, and video card only. If the system boots, then you know its caused by one of the periphal devices. If the system fails to boot, you know its one of those 3 componets.

 

*Take your time un-installing and re-installing the system. A bad componet seat or mis-aligned pin could cause alot of headaches and heartaches.

[Eva_Unit_0]

In my experience, 4 short beeps is a video error. Make sure that the video card is all the way into the socket...go ahead and push it firmly down, since the new mobo will have very tight slots. Also, make sure that nothing is blocking the video card from the socket. (I had a stupid dimm tab blocking the card once...that was a pain in the butt until I figured it out)

[Dgephri]

a warning: I do not know intel boards, I do not know that brand either...but:

 

When reassembling my Abit NF7-S, I didn't get the 12V AT header plugged in all the way...and it did very similary things- booted once, then blank screen, then didn't boot at all, some checking, wall plug, Surge protector, etc.

 

After a half an hour of fiddling with wires, I found neither of the Mobo power plugs was seated very well. Make sure they are in, and flat, not pushed to the side, or at an angle.

 

Just another thing to double check, but it is so simple you might have overlooked it, I did.

[ace221dan]

I don't know if this would cause the error you're talkin about but aren't some mobo's temperamental about which slots are used for memory, eg installing 1Gb (with two sticks) some mobo's will only accept slots 1 & 3, rather than putting two next to each other (1&2).

 

Correct me if i'm wrong...

[aneo82]

ahh finally.. it was a bad mobo guys. I've tested (using all my components) with another same exact mobo (my friend's) and it was runnin flawlessly. Thanks for the replies though. About the memory it is true that you must put in in certain slots depending on the number of mem sticks ur puttin in. Mine was just fine. It was the stupid mobo. Time to RMA..

[Nuclear]

Glad you got it worked out, but sorry it was a bad board. I've seen and heard of alot of people getting DOA boards from ASUS. I had no trouble from mine, but maybe I was lucky.