At my wits end

Meladolus · 05-23-2008, 01:50 AM

Ok, so I have done everything I possibly could to get this computer running and I've run out of ideas other than the possibility that the motherboard is bad. Any insight would be freakin great. Here is my scenario:

I got a Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 motherboard, 2 geforce 8800GTS video cards, 2gb of DDR2 memory, 2 dvd burners, an AMD athlon 6000 dual core processor, a 260gb sata hitachi deskstar, and a 600 watt power supply. I've been messing with this thing for three days after hooking it all up. got all three power cords from the power supply in the motherboard, hooked up the front panel pins, connected all the burners and hard drive and had power hooked into all the fans and video cards, both ram chips were firmly in place, and the motherboard didn't turn on at first. I fiddled with some of the wires and it still didn't come on, but then I turned off the power supply and turned it back on and that did the trick... so I was like... ok... but then I got no display. I also didn't get any beeps because apparently the speaker for my case requires too many pins which my motherboard doesn't have. Not sure what the deal with that was but reading reviews on the board later on a few people had the same problem. Well, I've tested the memory and both video cards. Everything seems fine. Then I basically rebuilt the computer again and this time the fans would come on for like... a second and then the motherboard would just shut off. So I unplugged everything except the motherboard and the fans. even took out the video card just to see if the stuff would even come on and no dice. same thing. Fans would cut on for a second and then everything would shut back down.

So if anyone has ANY insight on what the problem could be, I'd love to hear it. Maybe I'm missing something... I think the motherboard is bad but I don't wanna have to ship it back to newegg until I'm positive. It's one of three things, power supply, cpu, or motherboard or at least that's what I am convinced of at this point.

Meladolus · 05-23-2008, 08:52 PM

Anyone?

zero9046 · 05-23-2008, 11:17 PM

well, i'm no expert, but i can tell you that you most likely do not have a strong enough power supply for 2 8800's. i don't know if that is causing the rest of your problems, but i am almost certain you'd need a stronger psu for those two graphics cards.

Meladolus · 05-24-2008, 02:22 AM

Yeah, that was one thought I had, but when I tested just the one card with no DVD burners hooked up it still didn't work.

05-23-2008, 01:50 AM	#1 (permalink)
Meladolus Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 11 OS: windows xp	At my wits end Ok, so I have done everything I possibly could to get this computer running and I've run out of ideas other than the possibility that the motherboard is bad. Any insight would be freakin great. Here is my scenario: I got a Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 motherboard, 2 geforce 8800GTS video cards, 2gb of DDR2 memory, 2 dvd burners, an AMD athlon 6000 dual core processor, a 260gb sata hitachi deskstar, and a 600 watt power supply. I've been messing with this thing for three days after hooking it all up. got all three power cords from the power supply in the motherboard, hooked up the front panel pins, connected all the burners and hard drive and had power hooked into all the fans and video cards, both ram chips were firmly in place, and the motherboard didn't turn on at first. I fiddled with some of the wires and it still didn't come on, but then I turned off the power supply and turned it back on and that did the trick... so I was like... ok... but then I got no display. I also didn't get any beeps because apparently the speaker for my case requires too many pins which my motherboard doesn't have. Not sure what the deal with that was but reading reviews on the board later on a few people had the same problem. Well, I've tested the memory and both video cards. Everything seems fine. Then I basically rebuilt the computer again and this time the fans would come on for like... a second and then the motherboard would just shut off. So I unplugged everything except the motherboard and the fans. even took out the video card just to see if the stuff would even come on and no dice. same thing. Fans would cut on for a second and then everything would shut back down. So if anyone has ANY insight on what the problem could be, I'd love to hear it. Maybe I'm missing something... I think the motherboard is bad but I don't wanna have to ship it back to newegg until I'm positive. It's one of three things, power supply, cpu, or motherboard or at least that's what I am convinced of at this point. Last edited by Meladolus; 05-23-2008 at 01:51 AM.

05-23-2008, 08:52 PM	#2 (permalink)
Meladolus Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 11 OS: windows xp	Re: At my wits end Anyone?

05-23-2008, 11:17 PM	#3 (permalink)
zero9046 Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: North Texas Posts: 34 OS: Vista Home Premium	Re: At my wits end well, i'm no expert, but i can tell you that you most likely do not have a strong enough power supply for 2 8800's. i don't know if that is causing the rest of your problems, but i am almost certain you'd need a stronger psu for those two graphics cards.

05-24-2008, 02:22 AM	#4 (permalink)
Meladolus Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 11 OS: windows xp	Re: At my wits end Yeah, that was one thought I had, but when I tested just the one card with no DVD burners hooked up it still didn't work.