- Nov 20, 2006
- 351
- 0
- 0
I'm stumped after 15 or 20 hours of fiddling.
I’ve built a few PCs, but I’m not expert and have NO experience with Asrock boards, UEFI, or Skylake. So I don't know what to expect when you hit the power button.
New parts:
Intel i5-6600K processor
AsRock Z170m Extreme 4 micro ATX motherboard
8 GB of HyperX DDR4 Ram (2 sticks of 4 GB); 2666 speed. On AsRock’s qualified list for this board.
Parts carried over from my I5-2500 Sandy Bridge (all working perfectly 48 hours ago on Sandy Bridge, which has been dismantled):
Antec Solo II case
Rosewill Silent Night 500 watt fanless power supply
Noctua NH-U12S cooler
Drives: Crucial MX100 SSD, Samsung 1 TB, WD Green 3 TB, Samsung DVD burner
Noctua and Antec case fans
Dell 2340M flat screen monitor
Microsoft wired USB keyboard and wired optical mouse
Video card: None; I use integrated CPU graphics
Short story: Won’t post; when turned on I get NO output on screen. All fans spin; drives vibrating slightly when touched, indicating they are spinning.
I assume I should get SOMETHING on screen, even without keyboard or mouse, not that they helped. It's connected by DVI-D. My monitor supports only DVI-D and VGA.
Stuff I’ve tried over the last 24 hours:
Tried with all drives connected and all drives disconnected.
Tried with no RAM. Tried with one stick in each of the 4 slots. Tried the other stick in each of the 4 slots. Tried RAM in pairs.
Cleared CMOS several times via board jumper.
Swapped in 10 year old Sapphire video card as a test, both VGA and DVI-D ports.
Tried 2 different mice and 2 different keyboards in all available USB ports (4 USB 3.0 rear; 2 USB 3.0 front, and 2 USB 2.0 front).
Taken the board out of the case and tried again with only power switch, CPU fan, ATX 12 volt, and 24 pin power plug connected—using 1 or 2 RAM sticks in multiple slots.
AsRock manual says to hit F2 or Delete key to access UEFI when booting. Neither has any effect.
It’s as if I have no processor at all and that all of my keyboards and mice are bad. Neither the mouse nor keyboard shows any signs of life—as if they were disconnected—no LEDs light up, no glowing from optical sensor, etc.
I’m just using 4 pins of the 8 pins on the ATX 12 volt, just as I did on my i5-2500. The cable is connected to the 4 pins on the right hand side of the connector, which covers pins 1 and 5, per the manual.
The Antec case does not include a speaker, but I had a new and unused speaker from a LanCool case. Connected it to AsRock motherboard. No beeps whatsoever at any time.
Period.
The Samsung DVD burner opens and closes, so it's getting power. A bootable DVD is ignored when I reboot. Nothing happens.
I’m about out of ideas and nearing the end of my rope. I’m not close to installing Windows.
I can’t get any screen output at all. Is this standard when booting on UEFI/Skylake boards?
Any good ideas?? It’s probably something stupid, but I’m too frazzled to think accurately.
All I can think of is that it's trying to use a video card rather than integrated video and I can't get into the UEFI to check. Or possibly it's related to the UEFI setting for "fast boot"? I think I've heard that can be a problem.
I’ve built a few PCs, but I’m not expert and have NO experience with Asrock boards, UEFI, or Skylake. So I don't know what to expect when you hit the power button.
New parts:
Intel i5-6600K processor
AsRock Z170m Extreme 4 micro ATX motherboard
8 GB of HyperX DDR4 Ram (2 sticks of 4 GB); 2666 speed. On AsRock’s qualified list for this board.
Parts carried over from my I5-2500 Sandy Bridge (all working perfectly 48 hours ago on Sandy Bridge, which has been dismantled):
Antec Solo II case
Rosewill Silent Night 500 watt fanless power supply
Noctua NH-U12S cooler
Drives: Crucial MX100 SSD, Samsung 1 TB, WD Green 3 TB, Samsung DVD burner
Noctua and Antec case fans
Dell 2340M flat screen monitor
Microsoft wired USB keyboard and wired optical mouse
Video card: None; I use integrated CPU graphics
Short story: Won’t post; when turned on I get NO output on screen. All fans spin; drives vibrating slightly when touched, indicating they are spinning.
I assume I should get SOMETHING on screen, even without keyboard or mouse, not that they helped. It's connected by DVI-D. My monitor supports only DVI-D and VGA.
Stuff I’ve tried over the last 24 hours:
Tried with all drives connected and all drives disconnected.
Tried with no RAM. Tried with one stick in each of the 4 slots. Tried the other stick in each of the 4 slots. Tried RAM in pairs.
Cleared CMOS several times via board jumper.
Swapped in 10 year old Sapphire video card as a test, both VGA and DVI-D ports.
Tried 2 different mice and 2 different keyboards in all available USB ports (4 USB 3.0 rear; 2 USB 3.0 front, and 2 USB 2.0 front).
Taken the board out of the case and tried again with only power switch, CPU fan, ATX 12 volt, and 24 pin power plug connected—using 1 or 2 RAM sticks in multiple slots.
AsRock manual says to hit F2 or Delete key to access UEFI when booting. Neither has any effect.
It’s as if I have no processor at all and that all of my keyboards and mice are bad. Neither the mouse nor keyboard shows any signs of life—as if they were disconnected—no LEDs light up, no glowing from optical sensor, etc.
I’m just using 4 pins of the 8 pins on the ATX 12 volt, just as I did on my i5-2500. The cable is connected to the 4 pins on the right hand side of the connector, which covers pins 1 and 5, per the manual.
The Antec case does not include a speaker, but I had a new and unused speaker from a LanCool case. Connected it to AsRock motherboard. No beeps whatsoever at any time.
Period.
The Samsung DVD burner opens and closes, so it's getting power. A bootable DVD is ignored when I reboot. Nothing happens.
I’m about out of ideas and nearing the end of my rope. I’m not close to installing Windows.
I can’t get any screen output at all. Is this standard when booting on UEFI/Skylake boards?
Any good ideas?? It’s probably something stupid, but I’m too frazzled to think accurately.
All I can think of is that it's trying to use a video card rather than integrated video and I can't get into the UEFI to check. Or possibly it's related to the UEFI setting for "fast boot"? I think I've heard that can be a problem.
Last edited: