Michael,

I just went through this process so perhaps I can help you
troubleshoot it.

First you must enable the speaker in your system
so you can hear the codes that it throws. (parenthetically
I was unable to do this until I noticed a tiny thingamabob
which came with the case. When inserted on the correct
pins on your motherboard, it turns out to be a tiny speaker).

If your system beeps continuously, your RAM is bad
(as mine was). The Asus support guy diagnosed this
over the phone.

With the RAM replaced, my board beeped once and
POSTed. In any case, the beeps you hear will be the
key to the problem.

Hope this helps.

Michael Eisenstadt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Okoyomi" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 3:57 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Newly built pc won't boot


> I just finished building a new pc, but when I turn on the power switch the
pc doesn't boot. However the keyboard responds by lighting up briefly (to be
specific, the "print screen", "scroll lock" and "pause" keyboard keys light
up briefly when I turn on the computer, but nothing else happens). The
motherboard is a Syntax S661M with SiS661FX Northbridge and SiS963L
Southbridge. The CPU is a Pentium 4, 2.80E Ghz. The processor was inserted
correctly. The thermal compound was placed on top of the processor and the
heatsink was then attached. The power supply is labelled OKIA420ATX and has
420 watts. There are two DIMMS memory slots, one of which is populated with
a 512 MB module. There is a hard drive, a cdr/cdrw drive, a floppy drive,
and a modem. I disconnected the modem,the hard drive, the CD drive and the
front USB, but the problem persists.
> Please help me, I don't know what to do.
>
> Michael Okoyomi

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