Last month I began to upgrade my system. The current mobo I have is from an ASUS CM1855 and the USB 3.0 ports are failing. Money is tight right now and I am not ready "move up" just yet so, I purchased a Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P rev. 2.0 on eBay. It was listed as "refurbished".
When it arrived I seated my CPU and RAM into it, attached the power supply and HDD and got NOTHING. The fan on the PSU did not even spin-up when I plugged in the AC cord. I did double-check all the internal I/O connectors for the power button, HDD lights, etc. and they were correct according to the manual. There were no bent pins on the CPU.
I swapped out the PSU for an older known-good Thermaltake 430W PSU and got the same non-results.
I decided to check with Gigabyte to see if, in fact, the mobo was a refurb. According to the representative the mobo had NEVER been back to the factory so it was a new, still covered by the warranty mobo. Being that I was not into it for a lot of coin, I opened an RMA and sent it to California.
Last week the results were available online and they couldn't find any issues with it. This means that I must have missed something in my initial attempt to set it up. But what might I have missed?
Since sending it in on the RMA I have purchased a 600 power supply: Apevia Jupiter 600W and a Western Digital Green SATA III SSD 1TB.
Here is the hardware I am working with:
CPU: AMD FX-4300
GPU: ASUS Phoenix GeForce 1660ti OC Edition
RAM: Patriot Viper DDR3, 1600MHz 4x8GB
SSD: WD Green 1TB
It's all going into a new case an EVGA DG-75.
Any help in this area would be greatly appreciated, I would like to have a sort of head start before the motherboard arrives back home to me.
Thanks!
When it arrived I seated my CPU and RAM into it, attached the power supply and HDD and got NOTHING. The fan on the PSU did not even spin-up when I plugged in the AC cord. I did double-check all the internal I/O connectors for the power button, HDD lights, etc. and they were correct according to the manual. There were no bent pins on the CPU.
I swapped out the PSU for an older known-good Thermaltake 430W PSU and got the same non-results.
I decided to check with Gigabyte to see if, in fact, the mobo was a refurb. According to the representative the mobo had NEVER been back to the factory so it was a new, still covered by the warranty mobo. Being that I was not into it for a lot of coin, I opened an RMA and sent it to California.
Last week the results were available online and they couldn't find any issues with it. This means that I must have missed something in my initial attempt to set it up. But what might I have missed?
Since sending it in on the RMA I have purchased a 600 power supply: Apevia Jupiter 600W and a Western Digital Green SATA III SSD 1TB.
Here is the hardware I am working with:
CPU: AMD FX-4300
GPU: ASUS Phoenix GeForce 1660ti OC Edition
RAM: Patriot Viper DDR3, 1600MHz 4x8GB
SSD: WD Green 1TB
It's all going into a new case an EVGA DG-75.
Any help in this area would be greatly appreciated, I would like to have a sort of head start before the motherboard arrives back home to me.
Thanks!