Re: Computer booting issues
Just a thort but if its takes longer to lockup from cold, it sounds like a heat problem. You may have un-stuck some of the thermal compound on a motherboard heatsink, not sure what you have on your board, when you did your rebuild. It might be worth re mounting the other heatsinks. Its just a guess. It could be a power lead warming up and loosening on the pins but not as probable as the heatsinks on the MB.
Re: Computer booting issues
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switchmode
Just a thort but if its takes longer to lockup from cold, it sounds like a heat problem. You may have un-stuck some of the thermal compound on a motherboard heatsink, not sure what you have on your board, when you did your rebuild. It might be worth re mounting the other heatsinks. Its just a guess. It could be a power lead warming up and loosening on the pins but not as probable as the heatsinks on the MB.
All the heatsinks seem fine on inspection and this morning the mouse light didn't come on at all. It just about managed to get to the big logo screen with press del to enter bios etc.
Any other thoughts, anyone? Or is it time for an upgrade?
EDIT: it may also be worth mentioning that the mobo stopped beeping when turning on a couple of days ago but seemed to function as normal, so I ignored it. However, when troubleshooting, I forget to plug the power back into the graphics card and it did choose to go beeeeeeeeep - so the little speaker is at least working, just not at startup.
Re: Computer booting issues
Did you check for any blown capacitors on the mobo? Other than that, I'd agree that it's either the mobo or the PSU, if it can't even get to BIOS.
Re: Computer booting issues
Checked for blown caps and they all seem fine (checked them on graphics card too when putting water block on)
Re: Computer booting issues
It was just an idea as you had been disturbing things with the rebuild. If the MB is older you may have dried up Capacitors as mentioned, failure is not always visible as well. Upgrade, well it's a good excuse :)
Check out the PSU voltages or better get a new one for the "Upgrade" even better just in case it was the PSU that damaged the Mother Board ( It would be a shame to cook a new board ) Its hard to know if you are getting reliable good power to your system. Then again it could just be a bad Processor / Motherboard / PSU / RAM module and almost anything else its very hard to diagnose.
Good luck.
PS Your PSU looks a bit low power for an overclock and two GPU cards it may have had a hard life and is now causing problems, just another .. thort....
Re: Computer booting issues
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Englander
All the heatsinks seem fine on inspection and this morning the mouse light didn't come on at all. It just about managed to get to the big logo screen with press del to enter bios etc.
Any other thoughts, anyone? Or is it time for an upgrade?
EDIT: it may also be worth mentioning that the mobo stopped beeping when turning on a couple of days ago but seemed to function as normal, so I ignored it. However, when troubleshooting, I forget to plug the power back into the graphics card and it did choose to go beeeeeeeeep - so the little speaker is at least working, just not at startup.
The speaker is the 8800gt one i think, not the motherboard based buzzer. If you don't plug in the 6 pin power adapter into the card, it'll beep on the card itself. Just thought I might clarify a few things up. (also i think the well baked 2nd 8800gt may have had a slight effect ;P)
Re: Computer booting issues
I know this is a lot of work, but try revert to your old set-up and test with just the CPU and one stick of RAM, then add components one at a time to eliminate them.