Frustrated Mother

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My son just dropped a huge chunk of my $$ on a very nice gaming PC.
It has an ASUS K8NE Deluxe Motherboard. It also has many other
amenities, but the problem is, it won't power up! Plugged everything
in and seated properly and only gets a light on the motherboard. Any
ideas/tip/clues that will save his life would be greatly appreciated
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dkweav said:
My son just dropped a huge chunk of my $$ on a very nice gaming PC.
It has an ASUS K8NE Deluxe Motherboard. It also has many other
amenities, but the problem is, it won't power up! Plugged everything
in and seated properly and only gets a light on the motherboard. Any
ideas/tip/clues that will save his life would be greatly appreciated
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Demand that the seller repair it or insist on your money back.
If you paid with a credit card, you can dispute the charge.

-- Bob Day
 
Assuming you bought the component pieces and put them togther yourself ....

plug a pair of headphones in the back and see if you can hear the voice
telling you what is wrong.

If you get no voice, check the manual and set the jumper on the motherboard
to make the voice active.

Then get back to the forum.

Although, if it was put together by someone else and you paid them money to
do it, then take it back to them.

the_gnome
 
dkweav said:
My son just dropped a huge chunk of my $$ on a very nice gaming PC.
It has an ASUS K8NE Deluxe Motherboard. It also has many other
amenities, but the problem is, it won't power up! Plugged everything
in and seated properly and only gets a light on the motherboard.
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Is the power supply switched on?
 
Also assuming you put in together yourselves, check you haven't short
circuited any components against the case or that you haven't got any dodgy
ram?


dkweav said:
My son just dropped a huge chunk of my $$ on a very nice gaming PC.
It has an ASUS K8NE Deluxe Motherboard. It also has many other
amenities, but the problem is, it won't power up! Plugged everything
in and seated properly and only gets a light on the motherboard. Any
ideas/tip/clues that will save his life would be greatly appreciated
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take everything out until you have the bare minimum then check if it posts.
That's the first thing you should do when custom building. After the cpu and
memory go in, stick in a video card and keyboard to see if it works. Saves
you the hassel of building a dead system
 
I remember one story of someone who plugged the plug of their power
strip into itself, and couldn't understand why their system wouldn't
power up. Another story I heard was that many software makers
were no longer using the phrase "press any key" , since they were
getting many support calls from people saying that their keyboard
doesn't have an any key.
 
dkweav said:
My son just dropped a huge chunk of my $$ on a very nice gaming PC.
It has an ASUS K8NE Deluxe Motherboard. It also has many other
amenities, but the problem is, it won't power up! Plugged everything
in and seated properly and only gets a light on the motherboard. Any
ideas/tip/clues that will save his life would be greatly appreciated
:D

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beyond what everyone else has said, just double check that the case
power switch is properly connected to the motherboard (ie- on the right
pins).
 
spodosaurus said:
beyond what everyone else has said, just double check that the case
power switch is properly connected to the motherboard (ie- on the right
pins).
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I don't know if anyone else has mentioned it but another common problem is
the CMOS jumper shipped in the 'clear' position.

Another error is a miswired reset switch, like the hard drive LED plugged
in there by accident keeping a permanent reset on the board; and I've also
seen stuck down reset switches.
 
I'll second that suggestion. When i did my most recent build I had a hard
time figuring out why it wouldn't post, yet the mobo light was on. Took a
while before i came to the realization that the Power Switch pins on the
MOBO were harde to interpret when looking at the manual, and i had it on
wrong pins, got that resolved, never an issue since.
 
On 24 Aug 2004 16:08:21 -0400,
My son just dropped a huge chunk of my $$ on a very nice gaming PC.
It has an ASUS K8NE Deluxe Motherboard. It also has many other
amenities, but the problem is, it won't power up! Plugged everything
in and seated properly and only gets a light on the motherboard. Any
ideas/tip/clues that will save his life would be greatly appreciated
:D

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You have not said if the computer was a pre-built of a do-it-yourself,
however if it was the later, you might need to go back to the empty
case and make sure that only the correct number of stand-offs are
screwed into the case and that they are in the same locations as the
holes in the motherboard, you do not want stand-offs in the wrong
places as it could/would cause short circuits and that will stop a
computer from booting up and in a worse case may permanently damage
components.

Cheers



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dkweav said:
My son just dropped a huge chunk of my $$ on a very nice gaming PC.
It has an ASUS K8NE Deluxe Motherboard. It also has many other
amenities, but the problem is, it won't power up! Plugged everything
in and seated properly and only gets a light on the motherboard. Any
ideas/tip/clues that will save his life would be greatly appreciated
:D

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This has happened to me twice over the years. Both times, after a lengthy
troubleshoot, it turned out to be memory boards that were not seated
properly.
 
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