[kebertxela]

Hello all. I am a novice and just finished my first build with no success. When I power up all the fans except for the CPU fan work, the power LED works, the HDD accesses, the PSU powers and spins its fan. And then it just stays like that. No signal to the monitor, no beep, no anything. The CPU fan does twitch at a fairly regular interval, but no spin. My build is as follows:

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS (Perpendicular Recording Technology) 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive

GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard

GIGABYTE GV-RX385512H Radeon HD 3850 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card

Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Conroe 2.66GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor Model BX80557E6750

FSP Group Blue Storm II ATX 2.2 500W Power Supply

SAMSUNG 20X DVD±R DVD Burner Black SATA Model SH-S203B

Antec Nine Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 7 Pro 92mm CPU Cooler

G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F2-6400CL5D-2GBNQ

SAMSUNG 226BW Black 22" 2 ms (GTG) DVI Widescreen LCD Monitor

Does anything jump out as incompatible or garbage? Would anyone change anything? What the hell should I do first? I look at all those cables and everything all snug and loathe the idea of pulling it all back out. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

[Dave8282uk]

First of all DONT power on the machine again, untill you check the cpu/heatsink are properley seated and thermal compound is applied, check to make sure that the cpu fan is not defective and plugged in to in designated cpu_fan connector and also check you have the four pin cpu power connector plugged into the motherboard. Keep the case side open and power on to make sure the cpu fan spins up, if no luck power off asap.

[kebertxela]

Thank you very much for the info. I have managed to get this sorted and I will share the info so that it may help someone else even while it embarrasses me.

The first problem is that the power supply connector was plugged into the motherboard improperly. The PSU and mobo documentation both said that they would work with 20 or 24 pin. I plugged the 20 pin connector in, AND the 4 pin PSU connector (not the 12v cpu power plug) according to directions. Both were in the proper slot, on the proper pins. I took the 4 pin piece off and it booted up straight away and I got into the BIOS to check the cpu temp and fan right away.

As I am looking at the BIOS menu, the fan kicks on all by itself and spins all the way up. CPU temp is 21 C and fan speed 2800 rpm. I am amazed until I realize it is on AUTO and controlled by the mobo. I just hadn't gotten hot enough to come on while I was starting it up. Everything works fine now, many hours and curses later. Hopefully this will save the newest of the noobs from some of my first-time builder frustrations.

Thanks for all the info here.