New Custom PC Help

[airy]

I just finished putting together my new PC. It consists of: Soyo Dragon P4X400 mobo, P4 2.53, PC3200 DDR400 Mushkin RAM, Geforce4 ti4600 GPU, Antec Tru550 PSU, cd-rw, cd-rom, floppy drives, 45gb (test) hard drive. Everything is custom ordered.

The problem is I just finished putting everything in the case and making all the connections. When I power on, It starts up, cpu and video card fans start running, cd drives light up, but NOTHING on screen. monitor light remains amber, no sounds/beeps.

I would greatly appreciate ANY help and advice anyone could offer me. Thank you in advance, -Airy.


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[pr497]

it could be a memory problem...try your mushkin ram on another system to see if it works...or grab another stick of ddr memory and try it on your system...
thats all i can think of right now other then taking your system apart and rebuilding everything...

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[airy]

It was the CPU. i reseated the it and it worked. I had to take off the heatsink to check the cpu, Do I have to replace the TIM pad or am I ok since I didnt run it long enough to melt it on?

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[pr497]

well...you should remove that black pad if you can...its better for the thermal performance...and replace it with some thermal paste like arctic silver 3 or something....but not removing it wont kill your cpu either...so its pretty much up to you....but if you absolutley want to play safe....then remove the pad with some alcohol (rubbing alcohol) and put some paste on it...

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