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05-15-2020 09:13 PM
Hello,
Me and my son wanted to do our first computer rebuild. We took an old HP p6610f we had laying around in the attic. We took it apart cleaned it up added:
*Samsung V-NAND SSD 860 EVO SATA 6 GB/s
*Upgraded ram from 4GB to 16GB using four 4GB Neo Forza DDR3 Ram sticks
After we put it back together, we assumed we could just use the windows install disks we had to load windows onto the new SSD, but the computer doesn't respond. It powers on after we push the power button, but it doesn't respond to anything else, we can't even turn it off with the power switch.
The fans come on, the motherboard lights up, but nothing is sent to the monitor. My son bought a cool gaming keyboard that lights up, but the lights won't come on on the keyboard.
I know we missed something, can someone please help us with this project?
Thanks in advance.
05-16-2020 04:05 AM
Hello
You should know if the pc worked well before, maybe it was in the attic for a good reason?
Then you indicate to have replaced several components, therefore the SSD, did you try to restart with the original hard disk if it was not HS?
The memory, can be incompatible, did you test with the original memory also?
HP Pavilion p6610f Desktop PC Product Specifications
Motherboard Specifications, N-Alvorix-RS880-uATX (Alvorix)
- Dual channel memory architecture
- Four DDR3 DIMMs (240-pin) sockets
- PC3-8500 (DDR3-1066)
- PC3-10600 (DDR3-1333)
- Non-ECC memory only, unbuffered
- Supports 1GB, 2GB, and 4GB DDR3 DIMMs
- Supports up to 16 GB on 64-bit systems
- Supports up to 4 GB on 32-bit PCs*32-bit PCs cannot address a full 4.0 GB of memory.
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05-16-2020 12:18 PM - edited 05-16-2020 12:19 PM
Makes a point. Put it all back to the original configuration. Then see if it will boot!
1) The factory install disks require the same size or larger (in GB's) hard drive. Even if the system worked, it would refuse to install the OS on a smaller drive.
2) RAM is very specific to each model series of computers.
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