Recent content by kimbokray

I think I read about that, shorting the fan in the PSU to see if it's working. I'll keep you posted

I bought a new PSU (850w, gold rated) and... nothing D: I've inspected the MOBO with a bright light looking for anything out of the ordinary and found nothing, also tried breadboarding it but literally nothing is happening. No EZ-debug LEDs or anything. I've found 2 other posts with people...

Despite the prediction from that website I have just seen the recommendation on the back of my GPU box which recommends 550w, what I thought was a lot of overhead now seems to be toeing the line at best! To myself, as an amateur, this seems to explain what happened. System fired up and then the...

Again, thank you for your really informative responses. It looks like I do need to use the adapter, although from my understanding this would only affect if the power button works or not and should not damage any other components, please correct me if I'm wrong. I've asked a couple of friends...

My MOBO front panel pins are in a group of 9 with one gap on the end, am I right to be using the cable with the single head? There's also an adapter with 6 plugs split into 2x2pin + 2x1pin.

Thanks again for your advice. I will be trying that once my thermal paste arrives in the post. What's concerning me most is the lack of even an attempt to boot. There's not even a light around the power button (I definitely have the front panel plugged in, bottom right, and snug. This PSU even...

When I took off the CPU fan this is what the CPU and underside of fan look like: https://ibb.co/BnCtHdt https://ibb.co/gdgwpB7 I'm going to apply my own thermal paste and see if that works. Is this something that could completely stop anything working?

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. When you say beep codes is that sound or another kind of signal? At no point has it been both running and plugged in to a display with the correct input selected so I can't verify sound. There are no LEDs other than on the CPU fan, I'm not even sure...

I switched on my PC once I'd finished it (first build) and it lit up, fans started spinning etc. it seemed fine. It took me 5/10 seconds to figure out how to turn on my new monitor and by this time the PC was dead. It won't turn back on again. I'm not sure if anything was displayed. I've watched...