New PC wont boot/post

[Commander_Z]

Not sure where i should post this

So i built my new PC, and today i planned to reinstall windows, but it wont boot





My system spec



Case: Air 540

mobo: Asus Z97-A

CPU: 4690K

Ram: 2x4GB Adata XPG 2400MHz

CPU cooler: Corsair H100

PSU: Antec HCP 1000w platinum PSU

HDD: reusing a WD 1TB Black

2nd HDD(to install later) WD 2TB Green

Thermaltake Commandar F5 fan controller

TP-Link WN751ND PCI wifi card

GPU: Asus GTX 970 Strix 4GB

2x Samsung 24 inch monitors, one connected via HDMI, the other via a DVI-VGA connector.



Bios version: no idea



I have reseated the 24 pin, the 8 pin CPU power, and the 8 pin GPU cables before posting here.



The ram has been reseated in the reccommended slots according to the manual



All 5 fans (3x 140mm case fans, and two 120mm fans on the H100) are attached to the Thermaltake fan controller.



The H100 pump is connected to a molex PSU connector and the 3 pin pump connector is plugged into the CPU fan header.

A white led is light up on the GPU, the yellow led below turns on when the switch is moved to the up position, otherwise off when in the down position. There is a yellow led illuminated above the pwr led/pwr sw button.


The switch on the back of the PSU is set to I



When i pressed the power button on the front of the case, the two fans on the GPU briefly spin up and the mobo makes a short beeping sound.

Additionally the blue leds for each fan control switch briefly light up as well as the red power led just above it.



The 1TB WD Black has an existing install of windows 7 home premium that was attached to a system running a FX-6300 and a Gigabyte 78LMT-S2P, and so I am trying to reinstall windows on the drive from a bootable windows 7 usb.



Is this the problem due to the old installation on the drive?? do i have to format it before hand??



I think this is all the information i can think of



Thanks in advance

 

[kbalaz]

Did you change the boot order in your bios? If you are attempting to reinstall and reformat, you have to have the boot order where your windows install files are first, ie; your usb device

 

[Commander_Z]

Did you change the boot order in your bios? If you are attempting to reinstall and reformat, you have to have the boot order where your windows install files are first, ie; your usb device

I cant get into the bios, it wont boot to that point

 

[RadeonHDx]

Have you tried:
1) Booting with just one stick of RAM
2) Without the GPU installed

I'm not sure what it could be but these are usually good places to start. Also what kind of beeping noise is it? A short beep or a long one, or something else?

 

[kbalaz]

are any numbers showing on the motherboard? does it just power up and then shut down completely? do you have another psu that you can try?

 

[YouWhat]

step 1 - remove motherboard from case and place on a anti-static surface (eg motherboard box)

Step 2 - Connect to power supply, and monitor (at this point only use onboard stuff)

If above works, then continue, else test with a different PSU if possible.

Step 3 - Connect graphics card, and plug monitor in to it and try booting

if above all works, then great, you have an issue with motherboard shorting out inside case.

if it fails at step 2 even with a different PSU (any old this will do as motherboard alone will draw less than 100 watts), then run only 1 stick of ram and try it (swap it also to test other stick)

If everything fails at this point, it is either CPU or most likely Motherboard faulty.

Remove CPU (check pins aren't bent out of shape etc)

The next step after this is to raise a RMA with whoever you bought motherboard from.

 

[Warchild]

Another odd fix that has helped many including me, is to loosen the bolts that attach your mobo to the mobo tray.

Believe it or not, when I loosened one or two, my mobo allowed a successful boot. However since you report being unable to even access the bios, that sounds like an instant RMA if you tried steps above but had no luck.

 

[mArTyN]

This is showing all the hallmarks of a faulty case power switch.

 

[nepas]

This is showing all the hallmarks of a faulty case power switch.

Easy way to test that,the board has a power button,so that is easy to rule out.

 

[NeverBackDown]

I'd remove the Reset and Power connectors to the mobo. Use the onboard button.