System Not Starting

[Grandcruiser]

We found the problem. Apparently the motherboard wasn't grounded. My friend built the computer beforehand, and I just had to come wire and overclock it. It works fine now. :P

[carl6969]

We found the problem. Apparently the motherboard wasn't grounded. My friend built the computer beforehand, and I just had to come wire and overclock it. It works fine now. :P

Great news!
Glad you got it sorted out.

[Smith6612]

We found the problem. Apparently the motherboard wasn't grounded. My friend built the computer beforehand, and I just had to come wire and overclock it. It works fine now. :P

Great news. Nothing like checking over the connections to make sure it's good to go. It must have been a safety feature in the motherboard to refuse to POST if no ground has been detected.

[Grandcruiser]

Great news. Nothing like checking over the connections to make sure it's good to go. It must have been a safety feature in the motherboard to refuse to POST if no ground has been detected.

My friend called XFX, and they told him about the grounding. I have never encountered this problem before, so I didn't really know enough to check for this. :P

[Smith6612]

My friend called XFX, and they told him about the grounding. I have never encountered this problem before, so I didn't really know enough to check for this. :P

I haven't encountered it either, but the geek in me did consider power as a likely option away from the CPU. I've never seen a motherboard actually fail to boot out of the box. I have however seen a Northbridge cook itself somehow on a non-overclocked system. Wasn't a pleasant smell what so ever :\

[Grandcruiser]

I haven't encountered it either, but the geek in me did consider power as a likely option away from the CPU. I've never seen a motherboard actually fail to boot out of the box. I have however seen a Northbridge cook itself somehow on a non-overclocked system. Wasn't a pleasant smell what so ever :\

Wow. I have never heard of a Northbridge cooking. :P