You can all imagine the feeling. You do research, you decide to wait, not enough money to upgrade, wait a while. Finally the day comes, you order your bits then wait for them to arrive. They finally arrive, you set aside an evening of fun building the new system. You spent time doing it as neatly as you can, hiding cables, etc. You hit the power button, the fans spin and then... nothing.
Yep, that's right. There is nothing getting through to fire up the monitor from standby. I know the PSU is fine. I know the monitor and video card are fine. The CPU, motherboard, RAM are all new; I just bought them.
- Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 LGA775 'Yorkfield' 2.66GHz 12MB-cache (1333FSB) Processor - OEM
- Asus P5Q Pro Turbo Intel P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
- Kingston HyperX 8GB (4x2GB) DDR2 8500C5 1066MHz Dual Channel
With or without my hard drive plugged in, nothing happens. I'm not sure whether the case speaker works but it's not making any beeps. How do I check what's wrong? Do I just repack the whole lot and send everything back for testing? I built it so carefully so I'm sure that the CPU is seated properly, same with the RAM. This is so disappointing.