My motherboard will only give me 3 lights and no error display reading: will not post

[Naked_Hobo]

My motherboard will only give me 3 lights and no error display reading and will not post. I ave tried taking each stick of ram out and testing. I even tried posting without any ram. No hope yet! Answers are greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[Arne_Saknussemm]

Hi NakedHobo 🙂

Sorry you've got problems...the guys here are good but not that good....like...um.... they'd need a bit of detail to work on...what motherboard would be great for a start:p (full system specs in detail would be great) and a good description of problem and things tried...what lights...any debug leds...post codes...what BIOS you have etc.

[HiVizMan]

Please list your hardware and look on the white sticker near the SATA and 24 pin PSU connector - the last 4 digits are your shipping bios. I assume you have not flashed the bios.

[Naked_Hobo]

I will defiantly give you guys my full specs. I was just seeing if anybody would respond.

Mobo: Asus Rampage IV Extreme,
RAM: Corsair Dominator Platinum 1866,
Graphics Card: GTX 680 Classified Hydro Copper,
SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB, HDD: 2x WD Black 1TB drives
running in Raid 0,

Processor: 3930k,

PSU: XFX BLack Edition 1250w.

The whole system is water cooled, including the motherboard. The lights that appear are the "vsa core gnd", "DRAM_AB", "VTTDDR_CD" lights are on. There is no numbers appearing on the error code display. I just noticed that there is a small light on under the bottom PCI lane. The system just jumps the power supply and that's it.

Thanks again guys!

[Naked_Hobo]

On the sticker by the Sata ports the last 4 digits read: 2003

[HiVizMan]

Ok lets see if we can sort this.

Has the board every worked?

If yes what has changed since it last worked?

[Naked_Hobo]

It has worked fine for over a year and I have recently moved and the board worked fine, except for one lane of memory was freaking out.
Suddenly, the next time I plugged it in, it stopped working.

[HiVizMan]

Ok so once you moved it things started to go wrong. First one memory slot then the board would not post at all.

Did you move the board with all your water cooling fitted? Have you noticed any water loss in the reservoir?

Here is what you do.

Remove all the memory from your board and use only one stick.

See how that boots. Make sure all the PSU connectors are fitted, they can shift when you move a system.

[Naked_Hobo]

This may be the weakest point in my life...the CPU cable was unplugged don the PSU.... Thanks, man for all the help! Peace!

[HiVizMan]

No worries it happens dude.