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luuk83

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I almost got my first PC assembled, but I can't get it properly working though.
Power works, but screen doesn't react and no bios bleep.
Dunno anymore what to do with the cables, the rest is plugged in.

*MSI GTX 760 Twin Frozr OC 2Gb.
*Antec 302 full-tower
*CX500M modular power supply
*Intel Core i5-4670 processor
* MSI B85M-P33 motherboard
* Western Digital WD10EADS 1TB SATA hard drive (my old 1 incl Windows)
* Asus VW246H hdmi monitor
*Samsung SSD 840 EVO
* Crucial Ballistix Sport 2x4GB DDR3-1600 RAM
*LG optical drive (old 1)

optical drive connected to power supply with molex on peripheral, SSD and HD connected with SATA.
Everything seems to run (at least all the fans, incl. graphics card, but no startup nor screen.
Could it be the SATA connection, the non filled SSD or any misplugging?
Have had a screen in the beginning that said that I should hook up my graphics card, so I did (forgot). After that: no reaction from my monitor anymore..
 
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Th3pwn3r
Try re-seating your ram. If that doesn't do it try using other sticks of ram. Check all connections and make sure they're good. Always try the easy stuff first.
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Okay, the plug only goes in one way. Plug in the 6 Pin connector first. Then plug in the 2 pin connector. In this pic, the top goes towards the 6 pin connector. That little prong sticking up is a guide of sorts. As I said, your card is much easier to plug those things in than mine was as I was working blind for the most part and going by feel. When working with these things, there is one word to describe it.............Patience.
 
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uhm.. It was actually easy to plug in, but after 2 days of building (mostly searching info) you get these sort of things I guess... :heink:
Running now without the HDD attached, only an empty SSD. All systems seem to be running, see all fans spinning and can hear the optical drive.
Still that screen keeps being 'hdmi no signal'ing.

 
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Everything properly in place, start the "cable dance" described before. Try all different ports in the motherboard, and if it doesn't, work try the ports on the graphics. Obviously restart in between changing ports.
 
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If you have bith the 8 pin connector and 6 pin connector plugged in, mke sure the Cables for the card and a the monotor are properly plugged in. If so, then ther is a real possibilty that you do not have enough Power supply. As for wattage, it is enough as the card requires at least 400w and you have 500w. The issue is what you have on the rail and I have yet to find the numbers for that. Also, the Corsair CX series is not the best PSU they put out. I usually advise people to stay away from them.
 
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You're going to laugh your bums off... Put in the DVI, but didn't work... Quite a time later: wait, if I just try to change modes on the screen... And yes... THERE WAS THE BOOT!
But now it became a software prob... EFI SHELL, what to do with that boot?
 
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Try changing your Hdd or CD drive to another SATA port on the Motherboard that is running the same speed.
 
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luuk, the same thing happened to me. Except it costed me 15 minutes of panic thinking the monitor was broken, unplugging and plugging everything, checking everything. I felt like a retard.

Access your BIOS and change the priority, putting your HDD 1st (or 2nd with the Optical Drive 1st).
 
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Awesome, we just became fellow victims 😀
Eh, now my screen starts with:

EFI Shell version 2.32 {4.654}
Current running mode 1.1.2
map: Connot find required map name.

Press ESC in ..seconds to skip startup.nsh, any other key to continue.
When I type devices, it comes up with a list, including my SDD and HDD (I guess).

F4 R - - - 1 1<UNKNOWN>
13F D - - 4 - -<UNKNOWN> and a couple of other lines.


What now?
 
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just 1 and an external hdd 1TB
 
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If you had two the boot partition (which contains information about the OS) could've been on one and the OS on the other, sometimes happens.

You really need to tweak the boot priority, not sure if there's anything else other than that.
 
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I would recommend this. It sound like you're not getting to POST which means you need to strip down to the bare essentials and troubleshoot from there.

minimal RAM, one SSD, no GPU. Just plug into the I/O VGA port on your mobo and use standard legacy based peripherals or none at all.

Cpu, Mobo, Ram, SSD. Get it to post, if you don't get it to POST, you need to change your RAM or check the timings/ clock speed specifications of your RAM<>Mobo
 
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Make sure to wear an EFI bracelet or keep your hand grounded to the case while you're handling the parts. Usually people ruin their RAM sticks or short a piece of hardware by not being careful with static electricity. This leads to frequent RMAs by build-happy noobies : )

If you RAM sticks are defective, you will not POST. Please read your Mobo manual and find out how your mobo identifies POST errors. This can be through lights, or through an on-board speaker.
 
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Dude....this system has been POSTing for like 2 hours or more. It was a simple monitor problem. We are trying to help him set his boot priority at this point.
 
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My bad? I was trying to read through the mixed posts and I thought it wasn't posting yet.
setting boot priority is easy, just make sure your SSD is in SATA0 and set it as your primary boot device in your Bios settings. This can be accessed by hitting F12 or Esc key on bootup.
 
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Problem moved indeed :)
I can't find SATA0, just 1 till 4.

Tried to connect SSD via SATA to my old pc, but the software that came with it says the SSD can't be found. aswel as the hardware list where it doesn't appear. Do I need to buy a SATA/usb converter?
 
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That thing is SATA III and most likely wouldn't work on your old computer. It should be plugged into a SATA III port. Your Older Optical drive should be plugged into the SATA II port ( you have both on that board ). Half of your SATA is SATA3 and the other SATA2.
 
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Dumb question -- Are you connecting both your SATA data cable as well as your SATA power? 😛

Also, SataIII is backwards compatible with SATAII. The problem is, you can't see your primary SSD in bios, right?

If that's the case, and you're sure your SSD is connected correctly... Then I'd be stumped.

EDIT:
If the above is true, all else I can think of is try to boot off a Windows OS DVD without worrying about a primary drive and initialize with the SSD plugged in. Hope to god it installs some SATA drivers after detecting its existence.

Second EDIT:
Your system should not be automatically be booting into an EFI shell. It should give you the BIOS GUI. What are you pressing on bootup? Is your POST configured to display to the screen on startup?
 
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SATA III is backwards compatible with SATA II. You can run a SATA III device in a SATA II port ( you won't get full performance ). I don't know about running a SATA II device in a SATA III port though.
 
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They're compatible. You can plug a SataIII device into a SataII port and vice versa. It will only limit your bandwidth.

It's not a matter of what type of device he's plugging into and where-- He's booting into an EFI shell, which is a sub-feature of the main BIOS. He needs to get into the main GUI
 
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with reboots:
*Switching from Sata2 to Sata 4. Nothing happened.
*To Sata 3, Windows won't start. Hardware or software change.
Searching in BIOS: no SSD found, only optical and HDD
*Switching to Sata 4 again, same as with 3.
*Wiggled the Sata a bit: auto restarting pc
*Disconnected SSD: Windows starts properly, without SSD.
 
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Also disconnected the HDD and with the new Windows DVD and SSD connected all on the old pc.
Windows loaded the files, and then comes up with a blue screen with some swirls on it.
Can move the mouse around but nothing else happens.
After quite a few minutes it came with the install options (language). It's starting up now..
 
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