Hello
Hoping someone can help with a new Haswell build that I am having major issues with. Originally I purchased the following components to build a silent PC for use as HTPC and general PC use as well as to experiment with overclocking as a new side hobby. Not much of a gamer so decided against dedicated GPU at the moment and planned on using onboard video.
CPU - Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor
MOBO - Asus Gryphon Z87 motherboard
MEMORY - G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
CASE - Fractal Design Define Mini MicroATX Mini Tower Case
CPU COOLER - Noctua NH-D14 65.0 CFM CPU Cooler
SSD - Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk
PSU - Fractal Design Newton R3 600W
When putting this altogether and switching on the PSU the standby power LED on the Asus Gryphon motherboard would light up. When the case power switch was pressed the case LED would come on CPU fan would spin and nothing further. None of the LEDs for RAM, CPU etc. would light up.
I tested this outside of the case and with CPU, CPU cooler (including trying stock intel), one stick of RAM (tried both individually and in dual config) and PSU unit and the same problem occurred. I also tested the PSU on an older Core 2 Duo machine that I have and this worked fine.
Assuming a fault with the motherboard or CPU I contacted my retailer who sent me out a replacement CPU and motherboard. Unfortunately having found exactly the same issue with these two replacements I assumed that it was unlikely to be a fault with the two CPU's and that I was unlucky and had two faulty Asus Gryphon motherboards .
At this stage I decided on getting another motherboard and today took delivery of a Gigabyte G1 Sniper M5. I realise this may be overkill for my needs but I liked the onboard sound features and the styling of this board. Unfortunately testing outside of the case is showing a similar problem where the standby LED on the onboard power switch comes on when the PSU is switched on and then when powered on the CPU fan spins a tiny amount the green LED on the back of the board come on for 1-2 seconds and then nothing more. Also the debug LED on the board flashes up for 1 sec and then goes off.
Today I went to my local computer store to buy another PSU to test with this as I had read there are some compatibility issues with Haswell and certain PSU's despite the Fractal Newton R3 600W being listed as Haswell compatible I thought it was worth a try. I got a Corsair VS350 (only one they had in stock) which according to Corsair is Haswell compatible and should have enough power to run a bench test but exactly the same problems are occuring.
I have tried all the usual suggestion of resetting the CMOS and making sure both the PSU mainboard connectors are connected and am now at a complete loss as to why nothing is working.
Does anybody have any suggestions as to where I might be missing something?
Hoping someone can help with a new Haswell build that I am having major issues with. Originally I purchased the following components to build a silent PC for use as HTPC and general PC use as well as to experiment with overclocking as a new side hobby. Not much of a gamer so decided against dedicated GPU at the moment and planned on using onboard video.
CPU - Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor
MOBO - Asus Gryphon Z87 motherboard
MEMORY - G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
CASE - Fractal Design Define Mini MicroATX Mini Tower Case
CPU COOLER - Noctua NH-D14 65.0 CFM CPU Cooler
SSD - Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk
PSU - Fractal Design Newton R3 600W
When putting this altogether and switching on the PSU the standby power LED on the Asus Gryphon motherboard would light up. When the case power switch was pressed the case LED would come on CPU fan would spin and nothing further. None of the LEDs for RAM, CPU etc. would light up.
I tested this outside of the case and with CPU, CPU cooler (including trying stock intel), one stick of RAM (tried both individually and in dual config) and PSU unit and the same problem occurred. I also tested the PSU on an older Core 2 Duo machine that I have and this worked fine.
Assuming a fault with the motherboard or CPU I contacted my retailer who sent me out a replacement CPU and motherboard. Unfortunately having found exactly the same issue with these two replacements I assumed that it was unlikely to be a fault with the two CPU's and that I was unlucky and had two faulty Asus Gryphon motherboards .
At this stage I decided on getting another motherboard and today took delivery of a Gigabyte G1 Sniper M5. I realise this may be overkill for my needs but I liked the onboard sound features and the styling of this board. Unfortunately testing outside of the case is showing a similar problem where the standby LED on the onboard power switch comes on when the PSU is switched on and then when powered on the CPU fan spins a tiny amount the green LED on the back of the board come on for 1-2 seconds and then nothing more. Also the debug LED on the board flashes up for 1 sec and then goes off.
Today I went to my local computer store to buy another PSU to test with this as I had read there are some compatibility issues with Haswell and certain PSU's despite the Fractal Newton R3 600W being listed as Haswell compatible I thought it was worth a try. I got a Corsair VS350 (only one they had in stock) which according to Corsair is Haswell compatible and should have enough power to run a bench test but exactly the same problems are occuring.
I have tried all the usual suggestion of resetting the CMOS and making sure both the PSU mainboard connectors are connected and am now at a complete loss as to why nothing is working.
Does anybody have any suggestions as to where I might be missing something?
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