Pc not booting,no beeps, lights.

[Eve]

Hey lads and ladies, 

Pc started being troublesome yesterday. 

It won't boot, it just spins the fans and pumps the pump. 

No beeps no display. 

 

 

I've ran the pc no problem since December.  

 

 

I've unplugged the unpluggable, reset the resetable, and swapped the ram. 

No joy yet. 

 

I got her to boot a few times during this,  with one stick of ram. After adding a second, no joy. Removing it would result in the same. 

 

Cheers for any help. 

 

This is the current boot "cycle". Please note the lack of activity LEDs. 

 

Cheers, 

Artemis. 

 

[ZeusXI]

2 minutes ago, Eve said:

Hey lads and ladies, 

Pc started being troublesome yesterday. 

It won't boot, it just spins the fans and pumps the pump. 

No beeps no display. 

 

 

I've ran the pc no problem since December.  

 

 

I've unplugged the unpluggable, reset the resetable, and swapped the ram. 

No joy yet. 

 

I got her to boot a few times during this,  with one stick of ram. After adding a second, no joy. Removing it would result in the same. 

 

Cheers for any help. 

 

This is the current boot "cycle". Please note the lack of activity LEDs. 

 

Cheers, 

Artemis. 

 

umm...is it just me or you trying to boot without ram?

[Eve]

Just now, ZeusXI said:

umm...is it just me or you trying to boot without ram?

Nope, I got 1 stick in there. 

[ChrisCross]

Just now, Eve said:

Nope, I got 1 stick in there. 

is that in the right spot?

[ZeusXI]

Just now, Eve said:

Nope, I got 1 stick in there. 

Oh. didnt see you have 8 slots. I would say, if your using a TV, make sure you have the right imput and make sure you HDMI/VGA cables are plugged in correctly. 

[Eve]

Just now, ChrisCross said:

is that in the right spot?

Aye, silkscreen on the mobo says it's slot no. 1. Manual confirms this. 

[S7117]

How big is that one stick of RAM?

[Eve]

1 minute ago, ZeusXI said:

Oh. didnt see you have 8 slots. I would say, if your using a TV, make sure you have the right imput and make sure you HDMI/VGA cables are plugged in correctly. 

I've tested on both TV and regular monitor, no changes there. 

[ChrisCross]

so it doesnt beep which is indicating that the ram isnt the issue. do you have another video card?

[Eve]

1 minute ago, S7117 said:

How big is that one stick of RAM?

8GGBs,  hyperX fury black 2133 DDR4. 

[Eve]

1 minute ago, ChrisCross said:

so it doesnt beep which is indicating that the ram isnt the issue. do you have another video card?

Aye, I've tested without gpu, with a 980 and whatever this old ATI card is. 

[mrgooglegeek]

If you have another video card, try it. If you have a power supply laying around test that out too.

[ChrisCross]

Just now, Eve said:

Aye, I've tested without gpu, with a 980 and whatever this old ATI card is. 

yeah without shouldnt work because this is a xeon. maybe the problem is that the cpu has only chad channel memory support. did it work at some time before?

[Eve]

1 minute ago, mrgooglegeek said:

If you have another video card, try it. If you have a power supply laying around test that out too.

Video card has been ruled out. I've done full voltage testing on the psu. Nothing out of the ordinary. 

[Eve]

1 minute ago, ChrisCross said:

yeah without shouldnt work because this is a xeon. maybe the problem is that the cpu has only chad channel memory support. did it work at some time before?

I got it to boot with one stick before, adding sticks after that made it do this again. 

[mrgooglegeek]

do you have another motherboard that will take your cpu? You may want to test the parts with another board  as it seems that that may be the issue

[ChrisCross]

Just now, Eve said:

I got it to boot with one stick before, adding sticks after that made it do this again. 

but if the combo ran fine before it should be the motherboard. if the cpu was broken it wouldnt turn on and spin the fans.

maybe try and rma the motherboard

[Moonzy]

4 minutes ago, Eve said:

I've tested without gpu

i dont think the xeon comes with iGPU lol

 

did you try resetting cmos?

[Eve]

1 minute ago, mrgooglegeek said:

do you have another motherboard that will take your cpu? You may want to test the parts with another board  as it seems that that may be the issue

Sadly I don't have any x99 mobo available. Or anything running DDR4 

[mrgooglegeek]

well i would suggest doing an RMA on the motherboard unless you have another type of ddr4 that you can test. It sure sounds like a motherboard issue to me. Also try resetting the bios if you haven't already.

[Eve]

1 minute ago, mrgooglegeek said:

well i would suggest doing an RMA on the motherboard unless you have another type of ddr4 that you can test. It sure sounds like a motherboard issue to me. Also try resetting the bios if you haven't already.

I suppose that's one of the few options left. I've reset the bios and all that stuff. No joy. 

[mrgooglegeek]

Does your motherboard support something similar to ASUS's bios flashback (flashing bios on boot from usb drive)? You might as well try it if it does. But before you RMA, try a different PSU even if yours appears ok.

[Eve]

3 minutes ago, mrgooglegeek said:

Does your motherboard support something similar to ASUS's bios flashback (flashing bios on boot from usb drive)? You might as well try it if it does. But before you RMA, try a different PSU even if yours appears ok.

I'll look into it. I got one other psu, but it's new in box. 

[mrgooglegeek]

Well either way it won't stay new in the box either way.