new build POST problem?

Gopher77

Hi, just powered up for the first time and think I could have a few problems.
System has power sqwaaks when I push the power button and the Mic led comes on and stays on, the Headphone led flashes a few times and then stays off (Shinobi case) but no extra beep for POST after the initial noise.

Monitor just says reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key.

I can boot and access the UEFI menu but in there I see that the memory slots DDR3_A1 and _B1 are only showing 4096 MB each.

What do you guys think should I be getting a more obvious second POST beep if everything is ok are the case led headers setup wrong and more importantly should I go ahead with trying to install Windows?

I woud appreciate any feedback you could give as I don't feel confident that all is ok at this point.

Thanks.

uberpixie

Monitor just says reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key.


this is the important bit..... pc is not seeing your harddrive. Check connections and check the boot device order in the bios.

Gopher77

Hi, harddrive is a Samsung SSD I have a mechanical drive with the sata cable disconnected until I get everything loaded I changed the cable over to that and the only diffrence was I got a flash on the screen which looked like logo picture for ASROCK which is the Motherboard but then i just have the same message.

Both drives show in the UEFI as bootable options the boot device order was the samsung then the cd drive which I had changed to boot from the cd first so i could load Windows.

Tea_Bag

start installing windows that's OK. its just saying that message cause its not finding any OS.

Gopher77

Thats great Tea_Bag thanks. Why does it only see that much memory is that normal?

Tea_Bag

do you have more than 8gb?

Gopher77

No I only have eight.

Tea_Bag

there bios is displaying 8 so all is good there. its saying 2x sticks of 4gb each.

Gopher77

That's great so, I will start on Windows next. Unfortunately it will have to wait until this evening after work.

Which I suppose could be a good thing as my nerves are shot at this stage.:)

Tea_Bag

at least it posts. that alone means all the components are (usually) working. its the worst part. installing windows is easy compared to doing all the work that led up to it.