Please help, pc broken

[Brownie1gg]

So i cant really say broken but i am building my pc and all i have hooked up to my motherboard is my psu. When i start it up a orange light came on that said HD_led, whats that mean

[Spork829]

2 minutes ago, Brownie1gg said:

i have hooked up to my motherboard is my psu.

Wait what? Do you have your CPU and memory in? It won't boot without those.

[Pewdiepies Pie]

2 minutes ago, Brownie1gg said:

So i cant really say broken but i am building my pc and all i have hooked up to my motherboard is my psu. When i start it up a orange light came on that said HD_led, whats that mean

Hi, can you be a lil more excat, mabey dm and ill try help

i frequwently take my computer apart for upgrades

[HelplmChoking]

What do you even mean? You mean you don't have anything but the PSU plugged in? Or just no monitor?

[Windows7ge]

Typically the HDD LED Indicator (HD_led) tells you when their is activity occurring on a storage drive such as the boot drive or a secondary drive. It tells you when information is being read or written to the drive.

 

In your instance with the limited information provided I'm thinking the system is searching for a boot drive and maybe cannot find one.

[Brownie1gg]

30 minutes ago, Windows7ge said:

Typically the HDD LED Indicator (HD_led) tells you when their is activity occurring on a storage drive such as the boot drive or a secondary drive. It tells you when information is being read or written to the drive.

 

In your instance with the limited information provided I'm thinking the system is searching for a boot drive and maybe cannot find one.

 

31 minutes ago, Rangaman42 said:

What do you even mean? You mean you don't have anything but the PSU plugged in? Or just no monitor?

 

35 minutes ago, Pewdiepies Pie said:

Hi, can you be a lil more excat, mabey dm and ill try help

i frequwently take my computer apart for upgrades

 

36 minutes ago, Spork829 said:

Wait what? Do you have your CPU and memory in? It won't boot without those.

I have my Motherboard in my case with my psu hooked up, i also have my CPU, Ram, GPU, and all the cords meant for it hooked all to the power supply. When I start up the power supply and press start on the motherboard the number light thing above the start button will flicker on and off on and off along with the power supply, I can try and send in a video of what is happening if it doesnt make sense.

 

specs

 

i3-4170

gtx 1060 3gb

8gb ram

1tb hard drive

evga 550w +80 gold power supply

asus maximus vi hero mobo

and a deep cool case

 

[Brownie1gg]

do i need to hook my hard drive up for it to boot or is my motherboard or cpu faulty

[Pewdiepies Pie]

Just now, Brownie1gg said:

do i need to hook my hard drive up for it to boot or is my motherboard or cpu faulty

You need to hook the hard drive into the sata conector on the motherboard

[Spork829]

1 minute ago, Brownie1gg said:

do i need to hook my hard drive up for it to boot or is my motherboard or cpu faulty

It should boot into BIOS without the drive plugged in. Is the little screen that's flashing showing a specific code?

[Brownie1gg]

Just now, Pewdiepies Pie said:

You need to hook the hard drive into the sata conector on the motherboard

I am very new to pc builds and dont really know where eveything plugs in, my friend was doing it but had to go home, can you explain how and where or send a video please

[Brownie1gg]

Just now, Spork829 said:

It should boot into BIOS without the drive plugged in. Is the little screen that's flashing showing a specific code?

well no how do i hook the whole computer up to my pc? all it had are hdmi's and my GPU had the white vga cable plug in on the back

 

[Brownie1gg]

1 minute ago, Spork829 said:

It should boot into BIOS without the drive plugged in. Is the little screen that's flashing showing a specific code?

nothing has came up but my motherboard turns off then on off then on so will it even matter?

[Spork829]

1 minute ago, Brownie1gg said:

well no how do i hook the whole computer up to my pc? all it had are hdmi's and my GPU had the white vga cable plug in on the back

 

You shouldn't need VGA and HDMI. It would be helpful if you could provide some pictures so we can see a little better what's going on.

Just now, Brownie1gg said:

nothing has came up but my motherboard turns off then on off then on so will it even matter?

Yes, potentially, because the purpose of that little box is to spit out error codes when something is wrong, so you can look them up and figure out the problem easier.

[Pewdiepies Pie]

3 minutes ago, Brownie1gg said:

I am very new to pc builds and dont really know where eveything plugs in, my friend was doing it but had to go home, can you explain how and where or send a video please

Can you send a picture of inside you case please, so we can work out whats wrong?

 

[Brownie1gg]

Just now, Spork829 said:

You shouldn't need VGA and HDMI. It would be helpful if you could provide some pictures so we can see a little better what's going on.

Yes, potentially, because the purpose of that little box is to spit out error codes when something is wrong, so you can look them up and figure out the problem easier.

So what is everything that should be hooked up

[Spork829]

4 minutes ago, Brownie1gg said:

I am very new to pc builds and dont really know where eveything plugs in, my friend was doing it but had to go home, can you explain how and where or send a video please

We can get to that later once you are booting at all. You don't need it right now

 

[Brownie1gg]

Just now, Pewdiepies Pie said:

Can you send a picture of inside you case please, so we can work out whats wrong?

 

yea i can try and send a picture and a video

[Pewdiepies Pie]

Just now, Brownie1gg said:

yea i can try and send a picture and a video

Great

[Brownie1g1]

7 minutes ago, Pewdiepies Pie said:

Great

 

[Pewdiepies Pie]

3 minutes ago, Brownie1gg said:

yea i can try and send a picture and a video

Depending on the front pannel of your case there will be two usb ports, two audio ports, and a power button. They have specified leads coming from the back of them. On your mother board there will be at least two usb pin boxs and beside those will be 4 pins, then underneath, 5, on far left top make: green white lead on top left but green on the left. Followed by blue white, blue on left. Underneath the green make it red, followed by white, followed by orange, followed by white, and it should work

[Brownie1gg]

9 minutes ago, Pewdiepies Pie said:

Great

Thats one of then the others wont upload i was havin trouble with them

[Brownie1gg]

1 minute ago, Pewdiepies Pie said:

Depending on the front pannel of your case there will be two usb ports, two audio ports, and a power button. They have specified leads coming from the back of them. On your mother board there will be at least two usb pin boxs and beside those will be 4 pins, then underneath, 5, on far left top make: green white lead on top left but green on the left. Followed by blue white, blue on left. Underneath the green make it red, followed by white, followed by orange, followed by white, and it should work

I have no idea what most of that mean to be honest. I can try and figure it out

[Spork829]

1 minute ago, Brownie1g1 said:

 

Well to start, there is no cooler on your CPU. That is not good. Don't start it again without one on. Do you have a stock Intel cooler or some other one?

[Spork829]

Just now, Brownie1gg said:

I have no idea what most of that mean to be honest. I can try and figure it out

That's just for the front panel of your case. Since you motherboard has a power button you can use, that's not important right now.

[Brownie1gg]

1 minute ago, Spork829 said:

Well to start, there is no cooler on your CPU. That is not good. Don't start it again without one on. Do you have a stock Intel cooler or some other one?

yes i do, is that the thing i need to put the thermal paste on?