Trying to find out what part of pc is broken (or why not posting in general)

[JK91381]

I built a pc yesterday and i booted it.

Fans were spinning, LEDs where lighting up...

but no post...

Went back disconnected and reconnected everything

nothing

A fried part is most likely the case in this situation
CPU cooler fan is blowing hot air so i dont think it's the cpu
GPU also getting hot but no spinning fans (I have a EVGA GTX 960 FTW ACX 2.0 so fans dont spin until its under load)
MOBO is a possibility but since led and cpu and gpu is getting heated idk.
PSU is working fine

so my question is why is it not posting and what part is broken?

 

[USAFRet]

Start here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/261145-31-perform-steps-posting-post-boot-video-problems

Do all that stuff.

 

[mbarnes86]

Hi

If intel or amd CPU with integrated graphics remove gpu and connect screen to motherboard graphics output

Reset cmos using jumper
Disconnect hard drives from motherboard

If this this does not get you to post screen and 'no bootable devices found'
message then follow faq listed above

Is there a speaker connected to motherboard ?
as you said nothing about any beeps heard during startup

Get a pc minature speaker if you dont have one on motherboard or in pc case

Regards
Mike Barnes

 

[JK91381]

Hi

If intel or amd CPU with integrated graphics remove gpu and connect screen to motherboard graphics output

Reset cmos using jumper
Disconnect hard drives from motherboard

If this this does not get you to post screen and 'no bootable devices found'
message then follow faq listed above

Is there a speaker connected to motherboard ?
as you said nothing about any beeps heard during startup

Get a pc minature speaker if you dont have one on motherboard or in pc case

Regards
Mike Barnes

I have a apeaker to use for beeps but mobo does not support...i think

 

[JK91381]

Start here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/261145-31-perform-steps-posting-post-boot-video-problems

Do all that stuff.

idk might be the ram as in the mobo manual it dosent specify if the mobo supports single stick or the mobo is just dead

 

[JK91381]

Start here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/261145-31-perform-steps-posting-post-boot-video-problems

Do all that stuff.

Found the problem. The mobo was dual channel architecture and i had only 1 stick of 8GB. So i ordered 1 more 8GB. I mean 16GBs? im not complaining.....

 

[USAFRet]

Start here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/261145-31-perform-steps-posting-post-boot-video-problems

Do all that stuff.

Found the problem. The mobo was dual channel architecture and i had only 1 stick of 8GB. So i ordered 1 more 8GB. I mean 16GBs? im not complaining.....

A dual channel motherboard does not *require* 2 sticks of RAM.
It will happily run on a single stick. Just maybe a teeny bit slower.

 

[JK91381]

Start here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/261145-31-perform-steps-posting-post-boot-video-problems

Do all that stuff.

Found the problem. The mobo was dual channel architecture and i had only 1 stick of 8GB. So i ordered 1 more 8GB. I mean 16GBs? im not complaining.....

A dual channel motherboard does not *require* 2 sticks of RAM.
It will happily run on a single stick. Just maybe a teeny bit slower.

how so?
i looked it up and it said that 1 stick does not work dual channel architecture