Am I going to have to replace my motherboard?

[Trankerlicer]

I've just completed building my first custom computer, however I am not getting a 'beep' upon startup and no display on my monitor.

I have unplugged the hard drive, graphics card, cd drive, solid state drive and both ram cards, however there is still no change.
I have an internal speaker that I have plugged in.

My specs are:
AMD Athlon X4 860K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor.
Gigabyte GA-F2A88XM-D3H Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard
Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
Samsung 850 EVO-Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Sapphire Radeon R9 280 3GB Dual-X Video Card.
XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply
Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer

All in a Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mid Tower Case.

 

[jsmithepa]

Be sure the 4/8 pin Extended Power cable is in.
Reset CMOS.

 

[Trankerlicer]

Where would the 4/8 pin extended power cable go to? I cant find anywhere to plug it into. (upon second inspection its a 4/6 pin cable, what can I do with that? Looks like
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=4/8+extended+power+cable&espv=2&biw=1366&bih=599&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=ky6jVYy1NaPMyAP2xauYDw&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAg#imgrc=vgyZis8-xv4vRM%3A but only has 6 pins on the right side.
Resetted the CMOS by taking the battery out and putting it back in again, no change.
Thanks

 

[Tradesman1]

He's referring to the PSU's 4+4 EPS power cable that plugs in up by the CPU on the outer edge of the mobo. You may want to bench it, have a guide that may help here:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/faq/id-1753671/bench-troubleshooting.html

 

[Trankerlicer]

Yes I have that plugged in. I seem to have the choice between an 8 pin cable or two 4 pin cables. I'm using the 8 pin cable at the moment and the two 4 pin cables are left loose. Should I do something else with those?

 

[Tradesman1]

That's fine, if you have the TS series XFX it has both a single 8 Pin EPS and a 4+4 EPS, just leace the 4+4 alone

 

[Trankerlicer]

I've now breadboarded it so that it is just my psu plugged into the two sockets of the moba, + the internal speaker.

The processor fan starts, but still no beep.

 

[Trankerlicer]

I've got somewhere! I removed the fan from the processor and re-put the processor back on. Started without the fan on the processor and I'm getting beeps! However I cant find anywhere in my motherboard manual what it means.
Sounds like 'beeeep, beep beep beep', and repeats.

 

[Karadjgne]

To actually breadboard, you need the absolute minimums. This is mobo, speaker, psu, cpu, cpu cooler and 1 stick of ram. If you get no beep, try just the other stick of ram. If you get no beep, try the stick in another slot. If beep, try the other stick in same slot. You may have 1 bad stick or 1 bad slot. Then plug in the monitor to mobo. It should come up with bios starting then stopping on keyboard error or skip that and go to 'no OS'. You can then start adding other components 1 at a time until you get another error, or nothing happens. That'll be the cause of the problem.

Do NOT try turning on the pc again without the cpu cooler securely mounted to the cpu. That's the fastest way to burn up an expensive cpu.