I am building a Haswell-E PC for use as a whitebox server to run VMware ESXi. It will have lots of memory (64GB for now) and boot from a USB stick, with probably just a single SSD (or maybe M.2 next year as they become more common).
Components:
When I first powered up the system, with 4 DIMMs installed and the video card in PCIE3 with VGA connected, the fans started, there was a red light on the mobo but nothing on the display and no beeps. I tried this card in PCIE1 too, and swapped it with another X600 which just had DVI output - still no video or beeps. Next I tried pressing the reset CMOS button (with power off) but now when I press the power button on the case nothing starts.
Does this suggest the PSU has failed? I was slightly worried that it might be on the small side but I don't intend to have many components (i.e. only minimal graphics and 1 or 2 SSDs) so my intention was to keep it reasonably well loaded for better efficiency. Is the graphics card compatible (when I looked at ASRock > VGA Support List I couldn't find Socket 2011-3)? Is the memory likely to be compatible (ASRock > X99 Extreme4 doesn't show my exact model but does have Crucial 8GB BLS8G4D240FSA)?
Being new to building PCs (having only previously built an i7-3770 on ASRock Z77 Extreme, though without any issues) I'm struggling a bit...
TIA!
Simon
Components:
- i7-5820K
- ASRock X99 Extreme4
- 2 x 4 x 8GB Crucial Ballistix BLS4C8G4D240FSA
- Seasonic S12G-450
- ATi Radeon X600 128MB PCI-e
- Coolermaster Hyper 212 Evo
- Antec Three Hundred Two
When I first powered up the system, with 4 DIMMs installed and the video card in PCIE3 with VGA connected, the fans started, there was a red light on the mobo but nothing on the display and no beeps. I tried this card in PCIE1 too, and swapped it with another X600 which just had DVI output - still no video or beeps. Next I tried pressing the reset CMOS button (with power off) but now when I press the power button on the case nothing starts.
Does this suggest the PSU has failed? I was slightly worried that it might be on the small side but I don't intend to have many components (i.e. only minimal graphics and 1 or 2 SSDs) so my intention was to keep it reasonably well loaded for better efficiency. Is the graphics card compatible (when I looked at ASRock > VGA Support List I couldn't find Socket 2011-3)? Is the memory likely to be compatible (ASRock > X99 Extreme4 doesn't show my exact model but does have Crucial 8GB BLS8G4D240FSA)?
Being new to building PCs (having only previously built an i7-3770 on ASRock Z77 Extreme, though without any issues) I'm struggling a bit...
TIA!
Simon
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