Hi there,
First time poster here. It's also my fist time building a new pc. Due to financial issues, I've been getting one component at a time, and a few months ago I finally had all the essential parts so I decided to put it all together, even though I don't have a Graphics card yet.
Once I got everything put together, it didn't power up at all. I tried removing the front panel connectors and directly shorting the power switch pins, but nothing. I took it out of the case and tried again, still nothing. Tested the PSU on an old pc and it worked fine. At this point I assumed I'd just gotten very unlucky and the Motherboard was DOA. As it was the very first component I'd bought, it was far too late to return it, so I just waited until I could buy a new one. Life happened and it took a few months, but my new motherboard just turned up on Sunday, I put it all together.... nothing.
I tried taking it back out of the case, nothing. Removed everything and tried again with just the psu, motherboard, CPU and cpu heatsink and fan, still nothing. I did notice that I was able to plug a USB cable into the back and charge my phone from it, so clearly there is power there, but it shows no sign of powering up.
It seems unlikely that I somehow managed to get 2 DOA motherboards in a row, so I'm hoping that I've just made some newbie mistake, and that both motherboards are fine (which would allow me to return the newer one and claw some money back).
I don't think it's the problem, but I did bend a few pins on the CPU the first time around due to being overambitious for a newbie and trying to fit a Noctua NH-U14S CPU cooler, which is massive and kind of awkward to fit, and it pulled the cpu sideways as I was fitting it. I managed to bend the pins back out without breaking any off, and have fitted and removed it agin with no problems, although I am now using the stock cooler which came with the processor. I'm assuming that it should power up even if there's a problem with the cpu, and then fail POST, which is why I don't think this is the problem, but please tell me if I'm wrong.
Can anyone help me figure out what the problem is? And before anyone asks, yes, I have connected both the 24 and 8 pin connectors from the power supply.
Components:
Motherboards - Gigabyte B550 gaming x (first attempt) and gigabyte b550m ds3h (new one)
PSU - XPG corereactor 650
CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 5500
CPU cooler - currently the stock one which came with the CPU.
I'm posting on my lunch break, but I can list the other components when I get home if anyone thinks it matters, but as it isn't powering on with just these components, I'm not sure the rest matter.
First time poster here. It's also my fist time building a new pc. Due to financial issues, I've been getting one component at a time, and a few months ago I finally had all the essential parts so I decided to put it all together, even though I don't have a Graphics card yet.
Once I got everything put together, it didn't power up at all. I tried removing the front panel connectors and directly shorting the power switch pins, but nothing. I took it out of the case and tried again, still nothing. Tested the PSU on an old pc and it worked fine. At this point I assumed I'd just gotten very unlucky and the Motherboard was DOA. As it was the very first component I'd bought, it was far too late to return it, so I just waited until I could buy a new one. Life happened and it took a few months, but my new motherboard just turned up on Sunday, I put it all together.... nothing.
I tried taking it back out of the case, nothing. Removed everything and tried again with just the psu, motherboard, CPU and cpu heatsink and fan, still nothing. I did notice that I was able to plug a USB cable into the back and charge my phone from it, so clearly there is power there, but it shows no sign of powering up.
It seems unlikely that I somehow managed to get 2 DOA motherboards in a row, so I'm hoping that I've just made some newbie mistake, and that both motherboards are fine (which would allow me to return the newer one and claw some money back).
I don't think it's the problem, but I did bend a few pins on the CPU the first time around due to being overambitious for a newbie and trying to fit a Noctua NH-U14S CPU cooler, which is massive and kind of awkward to fit, and it pulled the cpu sideways as I was fitting it. I managed to bend the pins back out without breaking any off, and have fitted and removed it agin with no problems, although I am now using the stock cooler which came with the processor. I'm assuming that it should power up even if there's a problem with the cpu, and then fail POST, which is why I don't think this is the problem, but please tell me if I'm wrong.
Can anyone help me figure out what the problem is? And before anyone asks, yes, I have connected both the 24 and 8 pin connectors from the power supply.
Components:
Motherboards - Gigabyte B550 gaming x (first attempt) and gigabyte b550m ds3h (new one)
PSU - XPG corereactor 650
CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 5500
CPU cooler - currently the stock one which came with the CPU.
I'm posting on my lunch break, but I can list the other components when I get home if anyone thinks it matters, but as it isn't powering on with just these components, I'm not sure the rest matter.
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