H270 Pro4 - Noobie

Its been over 15 years since i built anything.  So much has changed.  Can you run this board with just one stick of G.Skill DDR4-2400 8GBx1 RipJaws V (F4-2400C15S-8GVR) RAM or do you need 2 sticks?  My setup wont POST or display video.

I have reseated the power cables 24pin and the 8pin (two 4 pin connectors with yellow and black wires).  My PSU is a thermaltake T2 430w for ATX.  I purchased about 3 years ago or so.  I am not using an external video card, just trying the onboard only.  The mobo's dont come with built in spkrs do they?  There are no beeps when i remove the memory all together.

planetbrett wrote: Went out and got a mobo speaker from microcenter.  I am not getting any beep codes.  so i guess this is a bad mobo.

The option in the UEFI/BIOS to enable the POST beeps is disabled by default. You won't get any beeps until that option is enabled. Why they made that choice, and still use it, I don't understand.

I can honestly tell you I have seen many cases where a user thinks their board is DOA, or has an issue, gets a replacement, and nothing changes. I can't guarantee that will be your experience, just an FYI.

I looked up your PSU, you are using the correct CPU power cable.

Very difficult diagnosing new PC builds via messages like this. Was the PC case you are using used with another board? My point is sometimes mother board standoffs used with a different sized board are in different locations, and can short circuit contacts on the bottom of the board.

So what exactly happens when you try to start the PC? Does the CPU cooler fan spin? Power LED on the case light up? Any other case fans connected to the board spin up?

If you have a network cable from an active router plugged into the network jack, do you see any of the small LEDs next to that jack lighting up? You really did not describe what reaction, if any, you get from the PC.

Is your monitor configured to auto select the active signal input, or must be set manually? If you are not using a monitor, some TVs will not show the pre-OS display or UEFI/BIOS display, particularly before a video driver is installed.

You could try clearing the CMOS/BIOS with the jumper at the bottom, middle of the board.

Worst case situation is to try starting the board outside of the PC case with nothing but the CPU and memory installed. Also, did you check the CPU socket for bent contact pins? Those pins, all 1,151 of them, are delicate and easily damaged.