New PC doesn't boot, emits high pitched noise
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Posted by vordrax on March 7, 2008, 6:08 pm
Please log in for more thread options ello, my girlfriend ordered PC parts from Newegg, slapped it together. She has some experience building PCs, as do I, but I wasn't available to assist. Since my vehicle is dead, I can't physically be there to troubleshoot her PC, and now she's just frustrated that it won't start. These are the parts ordered Asus P5N-MX Motherboard 2x 1gig Team Elite RAM DDR2 800 Sony DVD ROM LogicSys case w/ 450W PSU Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 500g Western Digital drive 2x 120mm Rosewill fans She says that it won't boot (i.e. no video signal to the monitor) and that the lights come on inside the PC, but it makes a high pitched, loud whining noise (like a sustained beep.) Any thoughts? | |||||||||||||
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Posted by Paul on March 7, 2008, 9:29 pm
Please log in for more thread options http://www.asus.com/999/images/products/2010/2010_l.jpg Check that the ATX12V 2x2 square connector, is connected to the power plug near the processor (upper right corner of picture). The proper plug, has two *yellow* wires and two *black* wires. Look in the motherboard manual, and verify that the yellow wires mate with the 12V pins of the ATX12V plug. The plastic latches should be aligned as well. Check that the main 24 pin power is plugged in. Verify that the high pitched whine, is not coming from the power supply itself. Such a whine may be caused by an overload and current limiting. An Asus motherboard would be completely quiet (if the processor cannot POST and cannot read any BIOS code). Or, it will use one of a couple beep codes. The beep codes consist of beeps, followed by a period of silence, and then the beep code repeats. A steady whine is not in its repertoire :-) The motherboard has integrated video, so there is no need for a video card during the initial testing period. It has a VGA connector - if the monitor is DVI only, then that would be a problem requiring a video card. http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=2010&l1=3&l2=11&l3=614&l4=0 The chipset heatsink may get a little hot, unless it is receiving some airflow from the CPU cooling fan. Paul | |||||||||||||
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> She has some experience building PCs, as do I, but I wasn't available to
> assist. Since my vehicle is dead, I can't physically be there to
> troubleshoot her PC, and now she's just frustrated that it won't start.
>
> These are the parts ordered
>
> Asus P5N-MX Motherboard
> 2x 1gig Team Elite RAM DDR2 800
> Sony DVD ROM
> LogicSys case w/ 450W PSU
> Intel Core 2 Duo E4500
> 500g Western Digital drive
> 2x 120mm Rosewill fans
>
> She says that it won't boot (i.e. no video signal to the monitor) and
> that the lights come on inside the PC, but it makes a high pitched, loud
> whining noise (like a sustained beep.)
>
> Any thoughts?
>