680i LT Problems

[volvoshine]

Hi everyone,

I just bought the bundle from tiger direct, that has the 680i LT, The Q6600 and 4 GB of ram.
I seem to be having a lot of the same problems that everyone else is having.

My board appears to be dead when pluged in, Just two lights on the MB, Blue and Yellow

It does not respond to the power button,

I am using a four plug atx for the CPU power, is this ok? My PS does not have a 8 plug.

I am also using the Nivida gigabyte 8500GT as my video card, could this be the problem?

My PS is 500 wt

Please help, as I really don't want to RMA this,

[aneima34]

No you need the 8 pin motherboard connector for that.

[volvoshine]

No you need the 8 pin motherboard connector for that.

so it should work if I get a 8 pin?

[srpeters18]

No you don't as I ran the Q6600 on the same board for 2 weeks with no issues with a 4 pin CPU power. Honestly, it sounds like the front panel headers are hooked up incorrectly. Make sure they are in the right spot just above the IDE connector, near the molex for graphics cards on the mobo, not on the end of the board near the second PCI-E slot on the yellow header. Double-check all those. The blue and yellow light just means that the board has power and the CMOS has been set to defaults.

[Tim87]

you it requires a 8 pin connector. most sli ready power supplies have one. i would also reccomend going with a bigger power supply 500 is fine but its like bare minimum nowadays

[srpeters18]

For the last time it does not REQUIRE an 8 pin power connector. It is recommended. In the manual it says it will work and I have tried it and it ran stable for 2 weeks at 3.0 ghz with a Q6600 with no issues. With a 4 pin power. Then I upgraded PSU's and a new mobo.

[foxmobouser]

Serpeters18 is right you dont need the 8pin to run the board it runs fine on the 4 pin. As far as the 8500 gt card those dont think those even require extra power to run other than what they get from the pci-e slot. If you gonna stay with that card and 1-2 HD you really dont need a big power supply. Big PSU's make more noise and if they dont they are expensive. Try booting with 1 stick of ram and try the different slots.

[xfxsupport]

Try also only one stick of RAM at a time in each slot to rule that out as well.

[volvoshine]

I got a PSU with an 8 plug just to try it,
still nothing, i'm going to try the ram thing just to rule that out,
here is what happens, when I press the power button a little green led flashes on the board for about 1\2 sec then nothing. But only the 1st time you press the Power button. After that dead as a doornail.

I'll take some pictures later and see if you guys can figure out whats wrong.

[aneima34]

I had problems booting up with 4GB of ram until i changed the timings.
Also just tried a 4 pin on my board and it booted up so that works.Also when you press the power button do you get the blue and amber leds to light up?

[volvoshine]

alright, it looks like I got it to work.

I took everything out, reset everything and put it back together.
It seems like something was causing it to short out randomly.

Now i just have to reinstall vista and close the case, YAY!!

Thanks for all your help, I will be sticking around here for sure!

[aneima34]

Congrats!!!! :icon_tiphat:
Yeah def stick around the ppl here know their stuff.
Whenever i have a problem i come here first.:grin: