No POST Please Help

[Manic_Jorge]

My motherboard will not POST please help. I may sound like an old fart but I can assure you I did the following:

 

First I completely powered off the system and removed all components.

 

Second I tried the combination of RAM with nothing but the video card and processor plugged into the motherboard.

 

Third I tried different display ports.

 

Fourth I inspected the motherboard and noticed a bent pin on the underside of the slot that ram plugs into. None of the other pins are touching each other but this bent one now. Could these two pins touching cause my Ram to not be detected?

 

System:

 

MSI Radeon Saphire R7 260x 2 GB GDDR5 video card

 

MSI A88xm Gaming Micro ATX FM2+ motherboard

 

AMD Anthlon quad core CPU 3.2ghz

 

1x 4GB Gskill DDR3 1366mhz

1x8GB (generic unbranded) DDR3 1366mhz

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

3 minutes ago, Manic_Jorge said:

My motherboard will not POST please help. I may sound like an old fart but I can assure you I did the following:

 

First I completely powered off the system and removed all components.

 

Second I tried the combination of RAM with nothing but the video card and processor plugged into the motherboard.

 

Third I tried different display ports.

 

Fourth I inspected the motherboard and noticed a bent pin on the underside of the slot that ram plugs into. None of the other pins are touching each other but this bent one now. Could these two pins touching cause my Ram to not be detected?

 

System:

 

MSI Radeon Saphire R7 260x 2 GB GDDR5 video card

 

MSI A88xm Gaming Micro ATX FM2+ motherboard

 

AMD Anthlon quad core CPU 3.2ghz

 

1x 4GB Gskill DDR3 1366mhz

1x8GB (generic unbranded) DDR3 1366mhz

 

Have you tried clearing the CMOS, making sure all the power connections are plugged in correctly and securely, as well as booting without the GPU? The bent "pins" on the underside of the board is nothing to be worried about. Those aren't pins, those are just leftovers from the soldering process for the RAM slots. Major power connections to make sure are connected are the 8-Pin CPU power, 24-pin ATX power, as well as the 6-pin PCI-e power connector for your GPU.

[Manic_Jorge]

Yes I have.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

2 minutes ago, Manic_Jorge said:

Yes I have.

So you've booted even without the GPU (just CPU, and a stick of RAM) and it still powers up but doesn't POST?

[Manic_Jorge]

1 minute ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

So you've booted even without the GPU (just CPU, and a stick of RAM) and it still powers up but doesn't POST?

Well I don't have an integrated GPU but all my fans do spin on my graphics card. A month ago or so I was receiving kernel errors on a blue screen before this happened.

[Kered124]

Simplify the system. Put in one good stick of ram into the proper slot (in accordance to the mobo manual) and re-seat all other components. Unplug hard drive and cd drive. Make your main goal for now just to get into the bios. Try these things and report back with results.

[Guest]

33 minutes ago, Manic_Jorge said:

Second I tried the combination of RAM with nothing but the video card and processor plugged into the motherboard.

 

18 minutes ago, Manic_Jorge said:

Well I don't have an integrated GPU but all my fans do spin on my graphics card.

Having a plugged-in CPU fan/pump plugged in helps alot... But I'd asume you did do this. Did you connect a PC speaker? Does the mobo have a way to inform you about where things go wrong? (maybe LED display with error codes?)

[Manic_Jorge]

UPDATE: Okay so I bent all the pens back in place , unscrewed my CPU clamps and re pasted both the unit and heat sink.

 

I also cleared my CMOS Ram and replace the battery.

 

The computer now starts up and says

 

E7893AMS V1.3 10/20/2014

 

AMD Anthlon(tm) X4 740 Quad Core Processor               , Speed: 100.00x32=3200.00 MHz

 

Dram Frequency for DDR3 1600 MHz Dram Size is 8192 MB

 

USB Device total: 0 KBDs, 0 MICE, 0 MASS, 1 HUBs

 

All settings were reset to default values.

Press F1 to Run SETUP

Press F2 to Continue

[Manic_Jorge]

So the computer is posting now but it says the registry can't connect to a hive or something? The blue screen disappears too fast .

 

It does load into Windows Error Recovery and the computer will POST now.