So I've made a couple of builds in my lifetime, but this one seems to stump me the most. I can power on the rig, fans spin and lights come on, yet I don't seem to get any display on the screen. Right now it is hooked up via HDMI on a monitor that does work, but I can't seem to get my rig to POST or even display anything at all. There's no splash screens, nothing.
Here's my rig:
MSI Z170A Gaming M7 Motherboard
Intel i7 6700k CPU
32GB (4x8GB) G.Skill TridentZ DDR4-3400 RAM
nVidia GTX 970 SSC
Corsair RM1000 PSU
I also have a Samsung EVO 850 500GB SSD installed (with my previous copy of Windows 10 out of my last computer) installed as the main boot drive.
Currently I have two sticks of the RAM in, in DIMM 2 and 4, a keyboard plugged in, an external optical drive plugged in (my rig doesn't have bays for an internal) with the motherboard CD inside. Right now the LED panel on the board is jumping between 20-25 (which I assume is degrees C).
I've read similar posts about the i7 6700k needing the motherboard BIOS to be updated, but I wasn't sure if that was entirely the right step to take. If anyone has any insight, please let me know!
Here's my rig:
MSI Z170A Gaming M7 Motherboard
Intel i7 6700k CPU
32GB (4x8GB) G.Skill TridentZ DDR4-3400 RAM
nVidia GTX 970 SSC
Corsair RM1000 PSU
I also have a Samsung EVO 850 500GB SSD installed (with my previous copy of Windows 10 out of my last computer) installed as the main boot drive.
Currently I have two sticks of the RAM in, in DIMM 2 and 4, a keyboard plugged in, an external optical drive plugged in (my rig doesn't have bays for an internal) with the motherboard CD inside. Right now the LED panel on the board is jumping between 20-25 (which I assume is degrees C).
I've read similar posts about the i7 6700k needing the motherboard BIOS to be updated, but I wasn't sure if that was entirely the right step to take. If anyone has any insight, please let me know!