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PC doesn't boot!

Mark Kaine

I replaced the thermal paste and I think I plugged in everything right, but especially the cooler I'm not quite sure, it seemed simple enough though... 

But anyways it doesn't post or boot or anything - seems its not getting any power perhaps? 

 

Specs: AMD Athlon 64 x2

(Asus) M2N68-LA 

Seagate barracuda 250GB 

300w psu 

 

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the green light is on so psu is getting power and ready to go, I suppose? 

 

 

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I kinda think the power button is the culprit maybe - it feels kinda mushy, and well, it's not powering on... unfortunately kinda hard to get to it, but yeah, I'm not sure. 

 

 

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But maybe I plugged in something wrong?

 

No GPU, as far I know this doesn't need a GPU... 

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Did you close the side panel when turning it on  ?  It looks like a prebuilt so most of the time, there is this button thing that prevents you from turning it on when the case is open.

Im with the mentaility of "IF IM NOT SURE IF ITS ENOUGH COOLING, GO OVERKILL"

 

CURRENT PC SPECS    

CPU             Ryzen 5 3600 (Formerly Ryzen 3 1200)

GPU             : ASUS RX 580 Dual OC (Formerly ASUS GTX 1060 but it got corroded for some odd reasons)

GPU COOOER      : ID Cooling Frostflow 120 VGA (Stock cooler overheats even when undervolted :()

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CPU COOLER      : ID-Cooling SE 207
CASE FANS       : Mix of ID cooling fans, Corsair fans and Rakk Ounos (planned change to ID Cooling)
DISPLAY         : SpectrePro XTNS24 144hz Curved VA panel
MOUSE           : Logitech G603 Lightspeed
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and a whole lot of LED everywhere(behind the monitor, behind the desk, behind the shelf of the PC mount and inside the case)

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Yes, of course ... 🤔 

 

23 minutes ago, MartinKweh said:

It looks like a prebuilt so most of the time, there is this button thing that prevents you from turning it on when the case is open.

ah, I see... well I did close it as it's the only thing between me and 15 year old capacitors, aka ticking time bombs... but! 

 

there was a weird thing in the back idk what it is, maybe that has something to do with it? 

 

... WAIT, it says 'do not remove'! 

 

But how do I connect it to the monitor then, without a GPU, afaik this didn't come with a GPU lol.

 

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this belongs directly on the vga thing... 🧐

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better picture of the back panel 

 

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So if it says 'do not remove' the vga cover... it had to come with a GPU, right? 

 

Very strange, because I think it has nvidia on board graphics. 🤔

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15 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

better picture of the back panel 

 

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So if it says 'do not remove' the vga cover... it had to come with a GPU, right? 

 

Very strange, because I think it has nvidia on board graphics. 🤔

Did you buy it second hand?

It had a GPU in it at one point. That's why this panel is missing, and that CPU has no integrated graphics. It has to have a GPU for an output. That's why the "Do not remove" cover was on there.

https://www.techpowerup.com/cpu-specs/athlon-64-x2-4800.c348

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I'm not actually trying to be as grumpy as it seems.

I will find your mentions of Ikea or Gnome and I will /s post. 

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14 minutes ago, Voluspa said:

Did you buy it second hand?

It had a GPU in it at one point. That's why this panel is missing, and that CPU has no integrated graphics. It has to have a GPU for an output. That's why the "Do not remove" cover was on there.

https://www.techpowerup.com/cpu-specs/athlon-64-x2-4800.c348

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It does appear that the motherboard has onboard graphics:

 

"The HP Pavilion a6000n Desktop PC is 11 years old and came with these specs:
Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 2.2 GHz processor
1 GB DDR2 RAM (supports up to 8 GB)
250 GB SATA 3.0 Gb/s hard drive
NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE integrated graphics
ASUS M2N68-LA (Narra-GL8E) motherboard
300W power supply"

 

However if a system reseller had installed a graphics card after the fact they may have put a cover over the onboard display output to stop someone plugging the VGA cable into the wrong port. @Mark KaineIt's possible they disabled the onboard graphics when they installed the GPU, I'd suggest removing the CMOS battery to reset the BIOS. 

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34 minutes ago, Voluspa said:

Did you buy it second hand?

It had a GPU in it at one point. That's why this panel is missing, and that CPU has no integrated graphics. It has to have a GPU for an output. That's why the "Do not remove" cover was on there.

 

20 minutes ago, 8-Bit Ninja said:

It does appear that the motherboard has onboard graphics:

 

"The HP Pavilion a6000n Desktop PC is 11 years old and came with these specs:
Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 2.2 GHz processor
1 GB DDR2 RAM (supports up to 8 GB)
250 GB SATA 3.0 Gb/s hard drive
NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE integrated graphics
ASUS M2N68-LA (Narra-GL8E) motherboard
300W power supply"

Aye. it's a bit different this is *my* PC that I bought in 2008, maybe 09 🤔 and I gave it to a friend few years ago - who did not use it at all because he brought it to a shop and they told him it's broken (which im now not so sure about anymore) 

 

And I got it back a few days ago because I wanted to see if I can fix it, or if it even needs fixing - I do remember however the PC really was mysteriously slow suddenly - after I reinstalled Vista before I gave it away - maybe it was just missing drivers, not sure. 

 

 

And it had a GPU installed - which I bought myself, but it indeed did not come with one... hence I don't understand why the cover is there lol... makes no sense. 

 

Anyways!  I found why it didn't start - NO FRONT PANEL CONNECTOR... I simply didn't see it (I put it behind the cdrom drive when I removed the mobo lol) 

 

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It's absolutely glorious!  😅

 

 

it feels snappy too.... I think the cpu really just needed new paste lol. 😄

The direction tells you... the direction

-Scott Manley, 2021

 

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