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Hi,

 

This is my first time building a PC. After I completed building the PC I can't get it to power on (fans aren't turning).

 

I use:

 

i7-4790k CPU

Corsair H105 Liquid Cooler

Asus Nvidia GTX 970 GPU

EVGA Bronze 760W PSU

MSI Z97-GD65 Motherboard

1 HDD

1 SSD

32GB Ram

 

In addition, when I plug in the power cord my the motherboard and GPU lights up.

 

Thanks!

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Hi,

 

This is my first time building a PC. After I completed building the PC I can't get it to power on (fans aren't turning).

 

I use:

 

i7-4790k CPU

Corsair H105 Liquid Cooler

Asus Nvidia GTX 970 GPU

EVGA Bronze 760W PSU

MSI Z97-GD65 Motherboard

1 HDD

1 SSD

 

In addition, when I plug in the power cord my the motherboard and GPU lights up.

 

Thanks!

 

Reseat ALL the cables. Make sure all the connectors are plugged in. Try again.

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Hi,

 

This is my first time building a PC. After I completed building the PC I can't get it to power on (fans aren't turning).

 

I use:

 

i7-4790k CPU

Corsair H105 Liquid Cooler

Asus Nvidia GTX 970 GPU

EVGA Bronze 760W PSU

MSI Z97-GD65 Motherboard

1 HDD

1 SSD

 

In addition, when I plug in the power cord my the motherboard and GPU lights up.

 

Thanks!

if you could show pictures if you still have problems maybe we can stop some missing cables or something

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What about your memory? Try re-seating them.

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Do you have the front panel connectors plugged in correctly.

I think so, but I will definitely try looking again.

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Make sure the CPU 4 pin is plugged in

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Checked  :D

remove everything except the basics

cpu and 1 ram stick

nothing else

if it still doesn't work

do an external build of the pc

you might have a short with the case

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remove everything except the basics

cpu and 1 ram stick

nothing else

if it still doesn't work

do an external build of the pc

you might have a short with the case

Ok I will try that thanks!

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Does it give you any beeps or anything?

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Ok I will try that thanks!

 

There's a slim chance the motherboard is the source of your problem (or as techguru said it's shorted by the case). If the CPU was the problem, I believe at least two fans would spin. 

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There's a slim chance the motherboard is the source of your problem (or as techguru said it's shorted by the case). If the CPU was the problem, I believe at least two fans would spin. 

unfortunately that is probably the problem and you'll need to get a new one

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Test your hardware outside the case, something could be shorting out the motherboard.

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Taking the motherboard out of the case and assembling will be the easiest way to test what is going on. Make sure your standoffs were installed correctly as well.

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Sadly it does not give any beep. :(

 

You do have the motherboard speaker plugged in right?

 

I'll throw a guess at board shorting due to standoffs. 

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1. Make sure power switch on psu is on

2. make sure you plugged in power button on case properly

3. check all cables

4. reseat ram

5. reseat cpu

 

if none of that works, then it is probably a motherboard issue. 

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99% chance it is something plugged into the motherboard. Try rewiring

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Take everything out of the case and then just seat your mobo ontop of the mobo box, seat the cpu and ram, plus a hdd and cpu cooler and see if it posts, if it does, slowly start adding things until it stops booting. If it doesn't boot, then either your CPU, RAM or MOBO is F**KED

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You could also have a faulty power supply. Do you have a second one you can try to rule that out?

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