Hello, I finished putting together my desktop and I'm pretty sure I've got the front panel correctly wired, and everything plugged in as it should. My motherboard happens to have a power button on it so I'm fairly sure my power button isn't just fucked up...unfortunately.
I'm really not sure where to look, everything seems okay, my RAM is seated, my processor locked in good. The fan took quite a bit of effort to snap in (phenom II 955 stock) and the processor got pressed on most likely..but I hope that didn't mess with it.
When I hit power literally nothing happens, no fans start, nada
Ideas..?
EDIT: The power chord is just one fiesty mother ****** to plug in. Either that, or taking out my video card did the trick. Which may be because it is doing weird ***.
My windows xp disc didn't recognize as a boot device but this is not disaster as I was not sure it would work..However, all my screens are changing color and have lines vertically. Is this just the lack of graphics drivers? I should be fairly good from here on out
EDIT: *** YEA
EDIT: So..after double checking some stuff to figure out why my video is still messed up, I noticed my HD6850 wants 500 Watts. What the ***. I have a 600W power supply, running a Phenom II 955 (125 W), the HD6850 (500 W I guess) and probably other stuff using up watts too. So...I guess I need to upgrade to a 650W+ power supply? I posted here to double check the other week and it slipped by I guess..
EDIT: http://www.guru3d.com/article/radeon-hd-6850-6870-crossfirex-review/4 This shows I shouldn't actually be having a problem. Not to mention I'm getting this at the BIOS. Does this mean my video card is screwed? Ack
EDIT: Well...taking the video card and blowing on it kind of like you would with an N64 cartidge fixed it pretty good. Whatever works, I'll keep this thread in case I have more problems/other people have the same problem
I'm really not sure where to look, everything seems okay, my RAM is seated, my processor locked in good. The fan took quite a bit of effort to snap in (phenom II 955 stock) and the processor got pressed on most likely..but I hope that didn't mess with it.
When I hit power literally nothing happens, no fans start, nada
Ideas..?
EDIT: The power chord is just one fiesty mother ****** to plug in. Either that, or taking out my video card did the trick. Which may be because it is doing weird ***.
My windows xp disc didn't recognize as a boot device but this is not disaster as I was not sure it would work..However, all my screens are changing color and have lines vertically. Is this just the lack of graphics drivers? I should be fairly good from here on out
EDIT: *** YEA
EDIT: So..after double checking some stuff to figure out why my video is still messed up, I noticed my HD6850 wants 500 Watts. What the ***. I have a 600W power supply, running a Phenom II 955 (125 W), the HD6850 (500 W I guess) and probably other stuff using up watts too. So...I guess I need to upgrade to a 650W+ power supply? I posted here to double check the other week and it slipped by I guess..
EDIT: http://www.guru3d.com/article/radeon-hd-6850-6870-crossfirex-review/4 This shows I shouldn't actually be having a problem. Not to mention I'm getting this at the BIOS. Does this mean my video card is screwed? Ack
EDIT: Well...taking the video card and blowing on it kind of like you would with an N64 cartidge fixed it pretty good. Whatever works, I'll keep this thread in case I have more problems/other people have the same problem