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Author: Nadim Hoque
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Subject: Re: System building trouble
This might be a bit dangerous, but have you tried shorting the pins on the motherboard for the power button. Also did you also make sure you have the cpu power connected? I remember I only had the motherboard power and not the cpu power and my system did not.

Nadim

> On Jul 30, 2019, at 08:36, Harold Hartley <> wrote:
>
> Ok, but still there has to be a max watt on the board just the same. What is the specs of the gpu wattage and power draw.
>
>> On Tue, Jul 30, 2019, at 08:33, Stephen Partington wrote:
>> This is only relevant based on the amount of power drawn by the CPU socket really.
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 8:11 AM Harold Hartley <> wrote:
>> > __
>> > Has anyone check out what the maximum watts of power that the motherboard can actually handle.
>> > Some time ago I had a motherboard and got a nice high wattage power supply only to find out it would not run. The psu was to much for the board. I then learned that it was rated at a max watt that was less than the psu.
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jul 30, 2019, at 08:03, Bob Elzer wrote:
>> >> That seems to be enough, I wish you had access to an 850w to try it.
>> >>
>> >> My only other thought would be to check to make sure the cooler fan is plugged in correctly and that it is plugged into the correct fan header. I think some motherboards won't boot if a fan isn't detected.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Jul 30, 2019, 1:29 AM Eric Oyen <> wrote:
>> >> > It could be infancy failure of the board, or GPU or CPU. The board is most likely suspect if the supply works otherwise.
>> >> >
>> >> > -Eric
>> >> > From the central offices of the Technomage Guild, Parts is parts Dept.
>> >> >
>> >> > > On Jul 29, 2019, at 11:09 PM, Adam Mercer <> wrote:
>> >> > >
>> >> > > On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 9:24 PM Bob Elzer <> wrote:
>> >> > >
>> >> > >> You could go to PCPartPicker and build a system with all your exact parts and see if it gives you a warning about the wattage
>> >> > >
>> >> > > I used PCPartPicker to assemble the list and check compatibility. That
>> >> > > gave me a power usage of just shy of about 370W so I doubled that and
>> >> > > selected a 750W to be on the safe side.
>> >> > >
>> >> > >> You could also list your parts here too. Did you get a x570 Mb? I hear those draw more power too.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > It is a x570 board. It's a beast with a lot of upgrade potential.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > The parts list is here:
>> >> > >
>> >> > > https://pcpartpicker.com/user/skymoo/saved/gtVdXL
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Cheers
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Adam
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