My Parts: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor HDZ965FBGMBOX Antec EarthWatts EA-650 GREEN 650W ATX12V v2.3 SLI Ready CrossFire Certified 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC Power Supply MSI N560GTX-TI Twin Frozr II/OC GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video ASRock 970 EXTREME3 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard RAIDMAX Quantum ATX-798WB Black SECC ATX Mid Tower Computer Case G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model F3-10666CL9D-8GBXL HITACHI HDS721050CLA362 (0F10381) 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive (sorry about the entire name) I put my motherboard in the case with the spacers on, put on the processor and heatsink (I made sure to take all the plastic off and secured them to the mobo), the graphics card, ram (made sure both of them snapped in), my hard drive, a dvd burner, and then my power supply. I plugged everything into the mobo (including the power button and reset and such), and plugged power into everything. When it didn't turn off me and a friend double checked everything but it still wont turn on (and I flipped the switch on the back of the psu). I'm not sure whats wrong with it and hopefully none of the parts broke because I tried to be careful with static. If I could get any assistance on what I might have done wrong, and maybe even what I should do to trouble shoot, it would be most appreciated. Thank you for the assistance in advance!
If there is a problem with the processor, what do I do to check it? I already put on the heat sink so do I need to get new thermal glue? Also, what is the power supply paper clip test...?
You want to narrow it down one step at the time so begin with the power supply as that seems to be the culprit:
The paperclip test is when you take a paperclip, shape it into a c shape, then plug it into 2 of the 24 pins. You might want to look it up for further instructions though.
I did the paper clip test and the fan on psu turn on. Is there anyway to test if my motherboard is busted? Is there anything else I should check before panicking.
I did the paper clip test and the fan on psu turn on. Is there anyway to test if my motherboard is busted? Is there anything else I should check before panicking.xbrucehunter
Take a few pictures of your case so we can see that you wired everything right.
to me it sounds like the mobo its short-circuit I had the exact same problem and as it was turn out one screw fell under my mobo thus short -circuit my mobo with the metal case
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