M68MT-S2 & AMD Phenom 2 x6 help!

[Dark Mantis]

Are you sure that your PSU is working ok ?

[pinkegobox]

well i assume so all the fans on the mobo, graphics card and cpu are working.


are there any other indications that will show its not?

[Dark Mantis]

Not without a multimeter.

What about trying it without the GPU ?

[pinkegobox]

nope still nothing..

the power supply shopuld be able to cover it surely?

[Dark Mantis]

Without the GPU certainly.

Have you got a buzzer/speaker attached ?

Do you know what BIOS it was supplied with ?

[pinkegobox]

yeah theres no beeps or anything.

and i havnt got a clue what BIOS it was supplied with sorry. the DVD drive dosnt seem to be working properly either, i know it does work as i tried it on my other pc and it is set up exactly the same and its fine . but it kinda klunks twice and the reset button flashes at the same time. i tried removing the dvd but still nothing

[Dark Mantis]

The next thing to try is to clear the CMOS.  The only thing is doing this will remove your overclock.

Remove the power cable from the mains supply and then press the power switch on the case for a few seconds just to drain any residual energy in the PSU capacitors.

Once done remove the motherboard battery for at least one hour before replacing it.
 
Next plug back into the mains supply and boot.
 
You will now need to enter the BIOS by pressing DEL and load Opimised BIOS Defaults.

Make any other changes to the BIOS settings to suit your self like disabling the floppy drive, disabling the full screen logo and making the HDD the primary boot device and then press F10 to save and exit.

[pinkegobox]

tried the above and still nothing..

could this be a dead mobo?

[Dark Mantis]

Or CPU. The same situation would occur if the CPU or motherboard was dead.

[Gavster]

Tell us about your hard disk, CD/DVD or floppy drive. What make are they and how have you conntected them to the motherboard?

[colo]

I had a very similar problem, here is what I found

Both the ATX and ATX12V power connections must be connected to the MOBO. Unfortunately (at least for me), it took me sometime to realize that the power connectors that came with the tower are connected together. In other words I had to pull apart an 8 pin connector to make 2 4 pin connectors. They come apart very easily, but look like one 8 pin connector at a first glance.

So once pulled apart, I was able to plug into the 12 pin power connector (ATX) and the 4 pin power connector (ATX12V).

After that my machine would POST and give me beep codes.

Hope this post isnt too late and helps you. Not the most intuitive solution (again at least not for me, who is just getting back into PC building)