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General discussion

Pc will not work

May 7, 2018 6:00PM PDT

Recently I put together a custom pc and when starting it up the lights and fans turned on. The tower would not recognize my motherboard, monitor, or mouse. The monitor just says no signal on every port. I have tried different cords and ports. These are the parts to my pc:

Intel - Core i7-7700K 4.2GHz Quad-Core Processor
Cooler Master - Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler
Asus - PRIME Z270-A ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
Corsair - ValueSelect 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory
Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 1TB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Asus - Radeon RX 550 - 512 4GB Video Card
Corsair - VS 600W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply
Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit
Asus - VG245H 24.0" 1920x1080 75Hz Monitor
Redragon - S101 Wired Gaming Keyboard w/Optical Mouse
Corsair Carbide Series SPEC-ALPHA Mid-Tower Gaming Case, White/Red
Turtle Beach Recon Chat White Gaming Headset

I have looked through the instruction manual and can not find anything. It would be great to finally get my pc running and play some games. Any responses and help is thanked. Thank you!

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The usual is "Make it smaller."
May 7, 2018 6:19PM PDT

You don't need most of those items to test out the basics. You don't need the drives, the headset, the case, the mouse. What else can you do without to test for the basics?

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Help
May 8, 2018 5:58PM PDT

Okay do you have any other advice?

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If it doesn't work with less parts.
May 8, 2018 6:11PM PDT

List those parts so members can give you a guess on which part or if you still have too many parts.

First time building? The advice applies. Don't put it all together in one go.

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Parts list (refined)
May 10, 2018 6:46PM PDT

Well I have been interested and have watched many things on it. I finally decided to give it a go and I thought all my parts were compatible. Here are the major components to my build.

Intel - Core i7-7700K 4.2GHz Quad-Core Processor
Asus - PRIME Z270-A ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
Corsair - ValueSelect 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory
Asus - Radeon RX 550 - 512 4GB Video Card
Corsair - VS 600W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply

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Thank you
May 10, 2018 6:54PM PDT

So i have been searching everywhere and you are the only person who actually responds. Thank you for helping me! I appreciate it alot. (Been kind of frustrated).

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Nothing looks bad there.
May 10, 2018 6:57PM PDT
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Response
May 11, 2018 11:07PM PDT

Yes i took it out of the case on cardboard and the graphic card is unplugged from the motherboard,

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When you read the small as can be step.
May 12, 2018 10:09AM PDT

Then the bad or misconfigured parts are what is left.

I don't see your shorter list of parts so I don't have a chance to give a nod to which to RMA first.

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My motherboard
May 10, 2018 6:58PM PDT

The motherboard is not the one in the list. Mine is a Z170-A. Just figured out my problem. The bios is not compatible with the cpu software. Thank you again!

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The 7700K looks to be supported.
May 10, 2018 7:25PM PDT
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Updating Bios
May 12, 2018 10:07PM PDT

Could i get a cheap cpu and use it to update the bios of the motherboard. Could i use a Intel - Pentium G4400 3.3GHz Dual-Core Processor?

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Check the CPU list.
May 12, 2018 10:15PM PDT

But won't that cost more than a new good motherboard?

Or isn't this returned as DOA?

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Motherboard
May 13, 2018 10:40AM PDT

Most good motherboards cost atleast $100 and the cheap cpu costs around 50$

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But a new motherboard came with some rights.
May 13, 2018 11:16AM PDT

Most of all that is is ready to use. You should return bad products.

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Selling
May 13, 2018 4:03PM PDT

It is too late to return my motherboard (the only problem).

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Over a year?
May 13, 2018 4:08PM PDT

I can't guess what the hold up was but here, all the motherboards have the usual one year warranty. Paying for another CPU and then discovering the board is really bad will cause some to explode.

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Motherboard
May 13, 2018 4:09PM PDT

There was no warranty and that is completely true looking at compatible motherboards.

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Maybe
May 14, 2018 5:08AM PDT

but it doesn't hurt to keep a few old CPU around. I keep several AMD Sempron 145 around, in case needed for test purpose and they are sufficient for that and only cost about $30.