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New Mobo Wont Boot, Light On

Kyle_20

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Nov 13, 2015
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I bought a new Asus P8H61-M LE motherboard along with a Evga GTX 970. I installed it all in (also got a new Hyper T2) and it was launching but crashing with a BSOD before getting into the desktop. It has a STOP code with 7B at the end. I put in my old 7970 to see if it would work. At this point it wouldn't boot at all, wouldnt boot with the 970 again either. One thing I can note is that the standoffs are in but one is slightly bent. Its plastic so I dont think it can short the motherboard. What should I do?

Specs:
i7 3770
GTX 970
Kingston 8GB Ram
2 TB HDD
 
Solution
You will need to remove al non essential parts and try to boot with just 1 stick of ram and no HD. If this works go into the bios and set up the boot order for the disk that you have then try a reeboot. If it still does not turn on then clear the CMOS and make sure the front panel connectors are connected properly.
It won't even turn on at this point, is what Im saying.

Also, this HDD I am using had Windows on it but its from a prebuilt machine. Do I need to get a new Windows key?
 
You will need to remove al non essential parts and try to boot with just 1 stick of ram and no HD. If this works go into the bios and set up the boot order for the disk that you have then try a reeboot. If it still does not turn on then clear the CMOS and make sure the front panel connectors are connected properly.
 
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