A Beginner's puzzler.........

[Azure_S]

Any suggestions about what might be wrong would be supremely appreciated....

Here's the scenario:

I just finished the assembly of an Athlon 64 3500 system encorporating:

DFI Lanparty nF4 Ultra-D Motherboard
Antec TPII-550 Power Supply
2 Gigs of Corsair DRAM
Chaintech GeForce 6600 LE Video Card
2x Seagate 80 Gig Drives
2x CD/DVD RW

I thought I did a pretty good job of taking care while building; did everything on a table atop linoleum floors, was careful, connected all of my power cables where they should be.... etc.

When I turned the system on for the first time, all the fans started up, but the system did not "post" (forgive me if the nomenclature is a bit off - I'm a beginner). On my motherboard, there are 4 debug led's. As the system detects cpu, dram, and vga... the lights all go out. Which should signify a system boot-up. The process stops at 3 lit led's - the CPU detection stage. Meanwhile, the power light next to the "on" button at the front of the case blinks. No visuals on my monitor of any kind.

So are we talking CPU problems? Power supply problems? Both?!

I jumped the CMOS to clear, but this did nothing. Same end result.

Does anyone have any suggestions or input as to what I could be dealing with?

Any assistance would be very much appreciated...


Steve

[saphalline]

Did you connect all the drives on this first boot? If so, disconnect them. They are not critical to booting. Also, try removing the CMOS battery, use the CMOS erase jumper again, and see if that helps. If so, buy a new CMOS battery.

[Azure_S]

Thank you for the advice!!

[Azure_S]

It posted! Whoohoo! Formatting my hard drives now!

[saphalline]

What did you do that worked?