XFX 680i LT troubleshooting

[Meeper]

Hello everyone,

I just received my xfx 680i LT motherboard yesterday and began building my PC this morning (the motherboard was the last piece I needed). All was going well until I went to turn it on (isn't that always the case?!) at which time I wasn't getting output to the monitor (ie, no bootup, bios, etc). I also noticed that my keyboard light wouldn't flash. There didn't appear to be any sort of warning light/beep to indicate that something was improperly hooked up.

When pluged in and the PSU enabled, a blue light on the mobo turns on. When the power button is depressed, two lights (green and yellow) turn on. All fans (3 case fans, 2 chipset fans, cpu fan, and gpu fan) turn on, the hdd appears to spin up, the DVD-ROM will eject, etc. Yet no keyboard light (I've tried old school as well as USB).

The setup is as follows:

ANTEC P182 Chassis
Solytech 600W ATX12v PSU
Intel C2D E6600 (needless to say, not OC'd)
XFX 680i LT motherboard
2x1gb corsair PC5400 RAM
BFG 8800 GTX
WD 2500 SATA2 HDD
LG 18x DVD-Burner

Anyone have any ideas? They'd be much appreciated

[werty316]

You wouldn't happen to be the same person who posted this are you?

http://www.bjorn3d.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14665

I only ask since you guys have the same hardware and the same problem. If this is the case there is no need to make two account.

[Meeper]

That's my fiancee's web handle, so I suspect it was her -- unknown to me. I guess I know where she got some of the suggestions she gave me now! :)

I certainly didn't intend to duplicate her post. It appears that mine took several hours to appear, anyway.

[PowerLabs]

My computer does exactly the same thing. I put it together last night and have been working on it all day.
Tried 2 video cards, another monitor, different video cables, different memory, took it apart and put it back together, no change. I have a bad feeling the mobo is DOA.
I bought it from Toger Direct with the Q6600 CPU for $499.00.
If anyone has had this problem and fixed it PLEASE post.

Specs:
XFX 680i LT SLI motherboard
Intel C2Q Q6600 2.4Hz
Corsair XMS2 pc6400 800 memory (2 gig)
XFX 8600 GT video
Ultra 500w psu
Seagate 400gb SATA HD

[Meeper]

Well PowerLabs, I have the sneaking suspicion that our mobo is definately dead.. and from what I've poked around online, it's hardly the first XFX 680i LT to be so.

If you've been able to try another PCI-e GPU then you've even taken it one step further than we've been able to.

All that being said, my understanding is that these mobos don't 'beep' during post.

[mrtbone92]

I have this exact same problem. EXACTLY. I have yet to find a cure for it. Bad mobo?

[Meeper]

I have this exact same problem. EXACTLY. I have yet to find a cure for it. Bad mobo?

Apparently not. I took my new build into a shop today and just received a call that it posted directly out of the box. So I'm completely stumped. If it worked at the shop without any changes, then it's either a power issue at home or none of my monitors (three of them; 2 LCD, 1 CRT) are compatible with my videocard.

Other suggested solutions are welcome, but I'm completely stumped now. Hopefully my box will work once I get it home. If not, I'll try another outlet that isn't on the same breaker.

[mrtbone92]

Wow, that is realy perplexing. Let us know the results. I hate having this awesome rig sitting in my room, doing nothing. :help:

[xfxsupport]

Its always good to have a place to take the motherboard to be tested. It is good news that the motherboard is operational, but of course this means back to testing the rest of your sytem.


XFX Support

[Meeper]

Oddity confirmed.

It appears to have been little green men that were infecting my case.

I brought it home from the shop (where they changed nothing), plugged it in, and it worked.

I have no idea what happened. But it now works. So hurray!

Thanks guys :)

[mrtbone92]

Darn, this only makes me MORE perplexed. :frown:

[sticky9]

This makes me think you hadned the power leads on the mobo connected properly first time. make sure you have everything plugged in properly.

[Messenger182]

I have the exact problem. So if anyone figures out anything new let us know.

[Bio-Hazard]

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I have the exact problem. So if anyone figures out anything new let us know.
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How many different forum names are you running here sushrukh?? Just asking so I know just who I'm talking to, that's all....................;)

[Scott]

How many different forum names are you running here sushrukh?? Just asking so I know just who I'm talking to, that's all....................;)


I think that is a forum bug we have to fix. I had a post I made yesterday and as soon as I posted it, it said someone else had edited it.

[SwedBear]

I think the forum is still feeling a bit ill when it comes to post-id's etc. I will do some maintenance soon on it to see if it fixes things.

/B

[sushrukh]

How many different forum names are you running here sushrukh?? Just asking so I know just who I'm talking to, that's all....................;)

I would love to run multiple user ids here Bio so that i could enter in the contests multiple times :tongue: but unfortunately i do only have a single username here.:lol:

And one thing, how can i edit his post with my username being shown ? It's not possible even then if i would have multiple usernames. :wink:

[distorto_666]

Yeah - I'm having the exact same issue with the same XFX 680i LT / Q6600 deal from tigerdirect. And yeah it took me a few hours to build the thing. and yeah I'm arrrgh frustrated.

Everything appears seated - including power cables.

bzrt?

[xfxsupport]

If you have multiple sticks of RAM installed try one at a time in different slots. Double check you have at least a four pin power connector (if not the eight pin) connected to the motherboard near the CPU.

[distorto_666]

Yea - I've done a bunch of unsuccessful testing tonight - :frown:

I do have 2 x 1024 MB sticks - tried each separately and in each slot without success...

Also checked pins for CPU and all looks ok...

I do have a new 620W Corsair HX PSU with the 8-pin ATX 12V connector plugged in...

I swapped out my PCI-e power cable for a 2 x molex to PCI-e power adapter with no luck...

I've got a ticket with you at xfx - hopefully we can come up with something that doesn't involve RMAs...

[distorto_666]

Lo and behold - as much as I'd love to blame XFX (winkwinknudgenudge) it looks like my problems did arise from my video card.

Installed an ATI PCI (not PCI-e) card and the system posts sans problème!

Now my wrath is directed at eVGA!

[distorto_666]

My final post on this topic:

After booting once with the ATI PCI video card and reinstalling the eVGA card, the system boots perfectly and quickly. Joy!

So that said, my suggestion to anyone experiencing the same issue, do try installing another video card temporarily and perhaps you'll have the same luck I did.