Oh god, please help! System not booting at ALL!

[plagasx]

Hello,

Im new and I am building my first gaming pc.

It's a Antec Sonata lll 500 case, Ati Radeon HD 4870, Intel core 2 duo e8400, 4gb Gskill ram, Gigabyte Ep45-Ud3r motherboard.

Now I've put everything together but when I press the power button I only see a blue led on the front case and I hear absolutely nothing. No power supply fan, nothing.. It's like its not even on...But I am getting a blue LED on the front?

This should mean that the motherboard is getting power, right?? Why is this happening?



Please help, I really want to get this to work. So please it is highly apreciated!

 

[zodiac949]

How big is your power supply?

 

[plagasx]

500wtts. Why? is that a problem??

 

[cmichael138]

Do you have both the 24 pin and 8 pin power cables connected to the MB?

 

[cmichael138]

Also, can you be more specifc about the Gskill Ram.

 

[xthekidx]

Have you gone through the checklist at the top of the forum? Its the sticky that says *Read before posting about boot problems*

 

[marco324]

make sure you have the case pins on the motherboard correctly make sure all yhe cables are secure cd. hd
just use the least amout of stuff for now 1 hd 1cd 1memory video card make sure motherboard screws aren't
to tight will cuase it to short check cpu heatsink make sure its connect tight

 

[jsc]

Here's the link xthekidz refered to:

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/261145-31-read-posting-boot-problems