PC wont post

[shadowcalen1]

I decided to try a LTT 8 core under 150 type build, so I got 2x zeon 5640, 2x hyper t4 coolers, 2x 4gb of 1333 (a spare kit I had lying around, was going to replace with 16gb of ecc), a thermaltake 430 watt PSU and a intel server s5500wb motherboard. I plugged everything in, jumped the power thing (pins? IDK what they are called) and the system booted into the bios. Satisfied, I left for about 45 minutes. I come back and the screen is asleep, and I cant get it to wake up. I turn off the PSU, turn it back on, and the fans start spinning, then after 10 or so seconds ramp up to full speed. After a few unsecessful attempts, I just leave it on, and after about 10 minutes the PSU starts making a vibrating sound, something that I am reasonably sure it shouldent do, so I replace it, which does nothing.

Something to note, this board has a tone of led indicator lights, IDK which ones lit up during my first test, but I know that its alot less then when I first started up.

I have tried reseating the ram just in case, but nothing happens.

The only thing I can think of is that PSU died and fried my components, despite that the PSU was working erfectly fine before I used it in this rig. Any suggestions would be greatly appreceated.

 

[JakeNTech]

Are you getting any beep codes through the mobo speaker?

[shadowcalen1]

50 minutes ago, fixitnow said:

Are you getting any beep codes through the mobo speaker?

No, I dont even know if this mobo has audio.

[iDeFecZx]

Try booting with just 1 CPU in and try both individually?

[shadowcalen1]

23 minutes ago, iDeFecZx said:

Try booting with just 1 CPU in and try both individually?

Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunatly same result.

[JakeNTech]

If you left it on for a while and when you went back to it, it was not on it might be that it is fried, it unlikely. Make sure that both CPU's are the right way round. Take the mobo battery out for 5-10 mins, reset the CMOS, then put it back in and then it should boot up. It rests the bios back to factory defaults, as it could be that the BIOS is corrupt or you made a change to it with out noticing, not the first time that has happen to me, lol. If it still wont boot then it could be that the mobo is dead or that the CPU's are dead. Like I said though try resetting the CMOS with the battery, You will need to change the date and time after though.

[shadowcalen1]

13 minutes ago, fixitnow said:

If you left it on for a while and when you went back to it, it was not on it might be that it is fried, it unlikely. Make sure that both CPU's are the right way round. Take the mobo battery out for 5-10 mins, reset the CMOS, then put it back in and then it should boot up. It rests the bios back to factory defaults, as it could be that the BIOS is corrupt or you made a change to it with out noticing, not the first time that has happen to me, lol. If it still wont boot then it could be that the mobo is dead or that the CPU's are dead. Like I said though try resetting the CMOS with the battery, You will need to change the date and time after though.

I cant quite make sense of your first sentance, but I have taken the battery out, will see if it boots tomarrow. The board bieng server grade has a load of jumpers I can play with, if the battery failes I will try using the cmos clr one. It also has a bios rcvr which I think is to reset the bios, IDK though.

 

I have done some more testing, the PC will do the exact same thing without any ram, havent tested that the ram works, it could of died sense I last used it, or couppled with the fact that I dont actualy need to jump the lead to start the machine (the machine will turn on about 10-20 seconds after I turn on the PSU) my old PSU probably died and fried it.

[JakeNTech]

3 minutes ago, shadowcalen1 said:

I cant quite make sense of your first sentance, but I have taken the battery out, will see if it boots tomarrow. The board bieng server grade has a load of jumpers I can play with, if the battery failes I will try using the cmos clr one. It also has a bios rcvr which I think is to reset the bios, IDK though.

 

I have done some more testing, the PC will do the exact same thing without any ram, havent tested that the ram works, it could of died sense I last used it, or couppled with the fact that I dont actualy need to jump the lead to start the machine (the machine will turn on about 10-20 seconds after I turn on the PSU) my old PSU probably died and fried it.

Sorry, trying to multi task. It could be that it has fried its self while you where gone. Lesson learnt all ways re-read what you have typed , dough!

[JakeNTech]

Try different ram, different PSU. Try putting your GPU in different slots as well.