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Help with PC build not working

DragosteaDinTea
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Hello,

 

My side project right now is an HP Z400 workstation, with a Xeon W3503, and a Quadro FX1800. I've installed a clean 320GB HDD, 3x2GB in the three channels, power supply, front panel stuff, and all that. Whenever I try to boot on the system, the red light flashes on the power indicator, and the PC speaker beeps incessantly. What have I done wrong?

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Do the basics. Reseat RAM and run it with different sticks, reseat GPU, move GPU around (if there's more than one x16 slot), reseat the CPU...

 

Also give this a lookover. It might shine some light on the issue, but I'm not 100% sure on that. http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Business-PCs-Workstations-and-Point-of-Sale-Systems/Z400-fails-to-boot-fans-running-full-blast/td-p/5048656

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15 minutes ago, tmcclelland455 said:

Do the basics. Reseat RAM and run it with different sticks, reseat GPU, move GPU around (if there's more than one x16 slot), reseat the CPU...

 

Also give this a lookover. It might shine some light on the issue, but I'm not 100% sure on that. http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Business-PCs-Workstations-and-Point-of-Sale-Systems/Z400-fails-to-boot-fans-running-full-blast/td-p/5048656

Thanks, before i posted, i reseated processor, GPU, RAM, etc.

The article seems to point to a motherboard issue, and fortunately i have a second system, nearly identical except for not having a 2nd cooler.

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1 minute ago, Dutch-stoner said:

Does that motherboard support only 3 sticks? Can remember an issue where it had to be 1 stick, 2 sticks and 4 sticks. Not 3... Might be your issue. Try it with one stick of memory first, and then upscale.

Yeah, it's a 6 slot, 3 channel setup, so the default would be 1/channel hence 3, but i have tried different RAM combos.

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