Just swapped my motherboard and CPU, now fans are not spinning and nothing appears on display

[DarkDubzs]

What is your parts list?
Intel i5-4590 | Gigabyte Z97MX Gaming 5 lga 1150 | Corsair CX600M | MSI GTX 970 | 8GB DDR3 1866Mhz RAM | DVD/CD drive | Toshiba 1TB 7200RPM HDD | Western Digital Blue 1TB HDD | ADATA 480GB SSD | 2 Noctua case fans | Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo

Describe your problem. List any error messages and symptoms. Be descriptive.

I just swapped in a new motherboard and CPU, went from AMD to Intel. Added an SSD as well. Just finished and plugged in the necessary cables into the rear IO ports. I turned on the computer, it turned on, the MSI GTX 970 logo light turns on, the two fans spin, none of the case fans or the CPU cooler fan spin at all, the PSU fan spins, I can hear and feel the HDD spinning (only have the Toshiba drive plugged into a SATA port), the hard drive activity light does not turn on (but I may have plugged in the front panel connector for the light the wrong way), and the monitor stays on standby and doesn't even turn on or change from pure black. No beeps at all from the speaker I plugged into the header, and I tried both ways to make sure I didn't plug it in wrong.

List anything you've done in attempt to diagnose or fix the problem.

Plunged in the monitor to the motherboard HDMI port instead of the GPU HDMI port, did nothing. Made sure the 24 pin connector is in right. Made sure the SATA connect is in well. Made sure the case and cooler fans are plugged in right.

Post relevant photos of build/parts here.


Don't know if these help, but here's a couple of after the swap, and I have more if they would be helpful.

http://m.imgur.com/a0KsAln,3Gc50Vn

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I had uninstalled numerous drivers that had any association with the last motherboard right before starting this motherboard and CPU swap, like the audio, graphics, video, ethernet, sata controller, etc drivers. I did this to avoid having to fresh install Windows after the hardware swap. I learned that this should be done to achieve this goal from a couple popular YouTube videos that instruct you to do this in order to avoid a Windows fresh install when changing your motherboard. Many people said it worked for them and the video creator did the same in his recording and showed that it worked after the hardware swap. I don't think it has anything to do with drivers or hard drives, since it should still POST or show the BIOS screen, and the fans should at least spin for a second.

I have no idea how to proceed and Google has done little to help. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

[smorizio]

see if it a bios bug. take out the gpu and one ram stick see if the onboard video will come on. if it does check to see how old the bios is on your mb.

 

[fredfinks]

Assuming you didnt bend pins on the motherboard (for some reason we see a lot of people screw it up somehow),:

remove all drives, GPU and have only 1 stick of RAM in the slot. (Read the mobo manual if it prefers a certain slot for only 1 stick of RAM. its near the beginning of book)

So only CPU & its cooler, 1 ram stick and the PSU connected. plug monitor into DVI mobo port.
look at manual how to reset CMOS. do that then then boot. if still nothing try the other stick of ram.
still nothing its mobo. Your PSU isnt the best but i doubt it would coincidentally fail the day of a new system.

I put my $ on mobo. (assuming you havent done something crazy like bent pins)

 

[DarkDubzs]

Holy shit dude it fucking worked. Got a beep immediately, another after POST, and another when the windows boot logos came up. All fans are working, motherboard LED is on. What the fuck?

What about my GPU now? How do I get that to cooperate with everything else? I know the motherboard is revision 1.0, I'll check the BIOS after Windows boots up.

 

[DarkDubzs]

For the record, I have 1 stick of RAM in, only have one stick anyway. Have both case fans plugged in, one CPU fan in, one HDD plugged into SATA 0 port, all drives are connected to the PSU though, and just now it looks like Windows booted up fine.

Holy shit, it looks like this fucking worked. All my data is here and didn't need to fresh install. But still, what about my GPU?

Sorry for the vulgar language, I'm just so happy it's working. Still have a couple issues I need help with though, most notably the GPU.

 

[smorizio]

make sure the cpu fan is on the right cpu header some mb have cpu_opt port that port is for pumps,,if your cpu fan connected you get a cpu fan failure at post.

 

[fredfinks]

Update the BIOS. Read the manual on how to do it, making sure you follow the instructions carefully. Enjoy the gaming!

pick a solution to close thread once done and open another if you have further questions regarding another issue.

 

[smorizio]

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4968#bios
last bios is f6 for the mb.

 

[DarkDubzs]

Thanks guys. The BIOS is f6, so it's up to date, so that can't be an issue. I'm guessing it's a driver issue. I believe it's that because I uninstalled most of the drivers before I did any of this. And looking in device manager, it shows there is a new, and single, ethernet adapter, but says it is not installed and a supporting symptom is that I have no Internet connection even though I have an ethernet cable plugged in. Likely because I have not inserted the drivers disk. I'll reseat the GPU, if it doesn't work, remove it and install drivers off the disk and report back.

 

[fredfinks]

hold on, are you in windows yet? HAve you installed the motherboard drives? If not do so, restart, and install the GPU drivers

 

[smorizio]

in the bios look for primany display if it set to ipgpu set it to peg/pci. under it turn on muilt monitor support for now to keep both video on. make sure the gpu is working . on the mb edge make sure the 8 pin power is connected. on the gpu make sure all the power plugs are filled.

 

[DarkDubzs]

Ok, so I didn't reseat the GPU, but I went into the BIOS again to look around and the settings are fine.

Yes, I was and am in Windows, it booted up fine after I removed the GPU like you guys told me to. I also kept all my data without fresh installing, but most drivers are gone.

I had not installed the motherboard drivers, but I just tried to. I went to the BIOS, put the CD into the drive, selected it as my first boot priority, but it just booted windows straight away like normal. So then I logged into my account, looked for the CD drive in my computer, was not there, checked the SATA connection, still didn't appear, opened and closed the disk drive, still nothing. I'm back in the BIOS.

 

[DarkDubzs]

Ok, back in Windows. The disk drive us here now, and am installing drivers as we speak. After that, I'll reseat the GPU and hope this all works out.

 

[fredfinks]

Me and smorizo both thought youve put the GPU back in.
Hold on. So youre still connected to motherboard video out. You got the DVD drive and the SSD connected yeah? Boot to windows and install the motherboard drivers.

You dont boot the driver cd , you just run the executable from the CD once you in windows. Open and close the drive and autorun should start the application. if not , go to windows explorer and run the application for the CD contents.

Once you done that connect the GPU. Make sure you have the power cables installed correctly to the card. Boot windows. install the GPU drivers.

ok just saw your post above. if the card still no work after that then either its faulty, or the mobo or PSU is faulty. Maybe youve jsut done something wrong like miss a cable or whatever.

 

[DarkDubzs]

Ok. So everything is working fine now. I installed the drivers, made sure it all worked. Then shut down and installed the GPU, fired it up and it all worked. So it seems the lack of drivers was the culprit. Then just now finished installing the latest nVidia Geforce driver. About to give Fallout 4 a run and see how it all runs. Thank you all so much for all the help!