I had just built my comp, had a few boot up issues from the get go, it would all power up, but no signal on moniter, fiddled with wires a bit, got it to boot, and it ran AMAZING. Then next time I logged off and went to reboot same thing, did wires again, np. Then I was doing some VERY minor overclocking, 200mhz on an AMD 3700san diego. Comp frooze, went to reboot and coudlnt get on. HAd same boot up problem. Full power, no signal on monitor. Temps never broke 40C, and when I did the wires, had no luck. After a few days of fiddling can't get it to boot period. Now would this be a motherboard problem or a CPU problem (or something else)?

Called AMD, and tech guy said if I had a bad AMD chip from start it would have been dead from start and never worked. You guys believe that or not?

If I had a bad motherboard from the start (asus a8n sli deluxe) is it likely it would have boot up issues but still give me full power as well as work for a few days before totally not booting up?

I already sent it back to newegg, and awaiting replacement, but should I send back CPU too? Or what do you guys recommend?

Thanks.

I've never had a CPU only partially work, so I would assume the AMD Tech was correct. The one CPU that ever died on me was an Athlon XP 2700+ back a couple months ago (due to overheating issues), and it lasted me over 2 years. I RMA'ed it, sold the replacement on eBay and got a 3200+. Anyway, just wait on your new mobo. There was probably something you just didn't do right, especially if this was your first build.

Whenever it would not boot, would the system ever beep in any fashion or pattern? Those POST code beeps really help when trying to solve a problem.

It is VERY easy to make a mistake or forget something when it comes to building PCs.

Told ya you should have just bought Dell...=P

What "wires" were you fiddling with? Also, never overclock until your new system has all bugs worked out and is running fine for a week. Overclocking can throw more wrenches into the gears covering up the actual root of the problem.

Well I had friend help me build who knows his shit. We had 0 beeps. The wires I messed with where the IDE cables. My floppy drive cable kept going very lose. The overclock should not have mattered I do not think though, it was the minimum preset overclock on the program that came with my mobo (AI booster by asus). I just bumped it 10% from 2.2 to 2.4 temps never rose more than a few degrees which usually is what kills a comp.

But am I right to assume that mobo would still boot up for me fine for first few times then slowly kinda die out? And it would still light up/give full power minus a signal even if its faulty?

Oh and my brother has a 2700 dollar dell that runs a 4k on benchmarks and my comp is around 2k and runs just under 9k :P So fuck dell, lol.

Cept his still works right? =O I kid i kid.

Yah except his other dell crapped out in 1 1/2 years and dell gave him shitty india service and it took 2 months to get new parts =X

I on the other hand will have a new mobo in 48 hours (hoping that I was right in my assessment of the problem).

Plus I can load 5 EQ accounts at once with full graphics/models on in under 60 seconds =D...or at least could until my mobo crapped out. He can run 2 :( 3 if he turns off models n such.

Thanks to palimax for convincing me to get 10k rpm HD heh.

How far into the BOIS post do you go? Even if you unplugged all drives the BOIS would finish then tell you that there isn't a bootable drive.