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No POST or video output on newly built unit

Andronew

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Jul 1, 2014
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Hello,
I built a desktop for my friend yesterday and everything worked fine without a problem. After doing some windows updates, the unit would reboot randomly without any sort of warning while in the middle of using it. One thing I tried was resetting the BIOS to factory settings but after saving changes and restarting, the unit turns on without a problem but doesn't output video through the integrated graphics. The speaker connected to the mobo that used to beep upon being powered up no longer does so. I have to hold the power button for around 5 seconds in order to turn it off. If I take out all of the RAM, it does start beeping repeatedly until I power it down. I've tried different RAM in different slots, a different PSU, a dedicated GPU, and resetting the CMOS with no success. Any suggestions or does the motherboard need to be RMA'd
 
It'd help us if you could pass on your full systems specs inclusive of your OS and monitor resolution. That being said how have you populated the ram's in your system? Are you using mixed and matched sets? Try bread boarding the system and run only one stick of ram, your motherboard, CPU and only your boot drive connected to the first SATA port that is native to your chipset and see if the system allows you to go into BIOS.

I've also included a link below for a guide on troubleshooting in case we missed something.
 


Thanks for replying but this thread is almost 2 months old lol. I just RMA'd the board and got a new one. The build works fine now.