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Found the problem. There is a power socket that sits to the left of the gold colored chip in the middle of the board which was not connected. Also, I had purchased the incorrect ram sticks. I am now waiting for the correct ones to arrive, and hopefully, everything will just work. At least I am now getting the system to post, even if the ram doesn't work.

Hi Seth Yes. But it is for the CPU cooler, not the CPU itself, which takes its power from the motherboard.

New PC build - MB fails to POST Thanks Maynardvdm Just one further question before I go to Maplin to get an alternate board. Could this be the CPU? I have not removed the CPU because I would then need to apply new paste which I do not yet have.

The answers to your questions are: No. The MB does not have onboard graphics. I have already tried with both 1 stick and with no sticks of RAM, also I disconnected all drives. Even with just the CPU and 1 stick of RAM I get no sound from the BIOS.

I have just finished building a new PC. This has the following spec:- Antec Sonata III case Gigabyte GA-MA790X-DS4 Motherboard 4Gb Corsair RAM DDR2 800Mhz ASUS Graphics card 2600Pro AMD Athlon 64X2 6000 CPU DVD drive is an older (fairly new) LG drive Hard drives : 1 x WD 320Gb SATA 2 x WD 500Gb SATA (to be a Raid 1 array) 1 x WD 500Gb SATA - was in my old PC. When I power the box up, nothing happens, apart from all the fans work, and I get the DVD drive to spin up, together with all the disk drives. I do not get any POST beeps, and nothing appears on the screen. I have tried with minimal configuration of board with CPU and still nothing happens. What is likely to be the answer. My gut feel is that the MB could be dead, or I have not plugged something in correctly. Any thoughts will be gratefully received.:confused::mad:

I had this problem last weekend on my wife's laptop. I reinstalled her operating system, and about half way through re-installing all of the software, I got an email from Zone-Alarm about the patch. After I vented my spleen (figuratively, of course) to Microsoft, I further investigated this and ascertained that the Zone Alarm fix involved fixing the security setting to medium, such that the user can no longer raise it to High. I will not bother installing it, I think. My own laptop had already had to have the ZA security setting downgraded, so that my PC could continue accessing the internet through my mobile company's wireless access method, otherwise I would no doubt have really chewed M$'s ears off.