NFII Infinty problems

[Shogun]

Building a new rig for a friend and it refuses to boot up. Running with a 3200+ and 512mb of OCZ PC2700 RAM (I know its the wrong fsb speed but thought it should still work?). There is power to the mobo as the power standby light and the RAM standby light is on. When I start it up the fans turn but no picture is outputted. Not getting any speaker beeps aswell which would indicate something wong with the mobo but i'm not sure. I know this is a popular O/c board but I have had no prior experience with this. Any ideas? Also, I checked the 12v line and it seemed to be running a bit low at 11.75 but thought it should still boot.

:edit: tis a barton chip so 400fsb instead of 333, hoping that should solve it when the pc3200 ram arrives.

[johnnyjohn2004]

Hi, Shoguns m8 here, i'm the one building the computer, and turned to him when i was so frustrated with the DFI Infinity NFII.
I heard it could be the ram, not seated properly but i've looked at this enough times now.

[BUFF]

Which gfx card & psu are you using?
btw the Infinity doesn't give the normal boot beep (but the error beeps should work if you have a speaker connected).

[johnnyjohn2004]

Geforce4 MX440 128mb + tv DDR
psu, Q-TEC400W

I've connected a system speaker but no error beeps, whether the system speaker is duff, And i had difficulty lighting the Power LED on the case, does not work on the mobo pins. Shogun came over earilier to have a look and he thought the mobo could be on standby. Is this a duff mobo?

[DaftpuNk]

No piccy, so tried a PCI/different gfx card?

[johnnyjohn2004]

Why do you think it could be that?, i'm not disagreeing just wondered, eager to learn

[BUFF]

I would try another PSU (make sure that you have the 12V 4-pin plug connected too).
It's possible that you could be suffering from what is known simply as the cold booting problem (quite common on DFI nFIIs until the last major BIOS rev). Have a search over at http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/foru....php?forumid=8

You could try:
holding down the insert key as you power on & hold it there as it tries to boot (this should load defaults)

Try resetting immediately after powering on

Keep trying by powering on & off - some people found that it would boot eventually doing this.

[johnnyjohn2004]

I've tryed the keyboard 'insert' key procedure. The keyboard leds dont light up, the keyboard works how ever after trying it on another computer.

[Steve]

Got another CPU you can drop into it? Maybe if that works, see if there's an update for whatever BIOS revision you've got on there.

[DaftpuNk]

The use of a Q-Tec PSU is scaring me as well Johnny i suggest that because it'd be the next port of call for me. Just thinking logically. Anything's worth a go.

[johnnyjohn2004]

I've just bought a thermaltake 480, should be better than the other?, also i bought some Geil pc3200 2 x 512 ram. Replacing the Motherboard as well. So something must work this time. Its really ennoying me