New PC not booting

[Sam DeathWalker]

Sajuuk anyone reading the hardware forum for some time understands that your posts are a bit rude, I really don't see a need for this. These issues are not simple and its an easy enough mistake for someone to make concluding that ram not listed as supported is not supported .......

You are correct, in my opinion, about the ram though as you can always put faster ram in a slower slot and it will just run slower, not cause a problem. But if the voltages are wrong then thats a different story, but rams all come from the same die/wafer; they test them and the ones that run reliably at a faster speed they sell for more lol ... its not like faster ones have something different about them (from memory I could be wrong without researching it) but you can put faster ram in a slower slot, no question about that.

Its impossible to troubleshoot what could be 1000 different problems on a forum.

Like suggested

1) Look at the cpu pins, that also is a common enough problem.

2) CLEAR THE BIOS

3) Double Check your fan is pluged into the cpu1 fan power (3 pin ususaly) and that it is rotating at a good speed. Make sure you have the thermal paste on and the fan is tight to the cpu.

4) Start up with ONLY the CPU in the socket and tell us the beep codes.

Once we know the beep codes; and we know the cpu got to the point of issuing beep codes we are in a much better position to help with your problem. If you cannot do those 4 things you might want to think twice about building your own system.


If you get beep codes indicating missing ram then as suggested you post with ONLY one stick; IF your manual says you can run the computer with only one stick. I'm not sure but its possible that you might have to have 2 or 3 before you can get into the bios, but maybe not; that information will be in your manual for sure though.



There are yet even more possible problems; you forgot to connect the 12 volt second connector from the powersupply. You didnt run the extra power cable (or two) to the video card; you dont have the front panel socket (on/off reset speaker etc.) all connected proper. Although not all those would cause a fast shut down.