Quote from: BigA3723 on December 03, 2017, 11:12:54 AM

Longtime lurker and finally made account cause Im desperate for help. I just finished assembling a 6 gpu rig and cant get it to start. A quick list of parts

H110 pro btc MoBo
8g(4g x 2) dimm
i3 cpu
6 - 1070 ti zotac amp extreme
2400w server psu from parallel miner

So I have built computers before and pretty confident everything on hardware side was installed correct. When I turned on, I dont get anything on screen. For simplicity I flashed SMos on a usb and it looks like its booting but nothing on screen. After trying everything, if I unplug all the gpu cards, it boots off usb, but gives like 3 screens of text and then stops. When I plug gpu back in, the monitor Im using says signal not supported, Im using onboard dvi, to div to hdmi converter to hdmi in on monitor. Also have tried plugging into gpu hdmi or dvi and with no signal or signal not supported.

When I have all gpu off and plug video to onboard and begins the smos boot up, I dont see any options to enter bios. Can I take a new MoBo with not update graphics files and run the SMOs from start? I didnt extract the SMos zip file before flashing to usb because it didnt say to in directions, should I have extracted it first?

How do I get into bios? Does a MoBo without any hard drives or memory sticks still be able to boot into bios? Ive been at it for hours and last thing I can think of is trying with a windows boot usb and see how that works, if not, will see if I get a dvi to vga cable and see if the message not supported mode I get from monitor with gpu installed is the issue.

Bottom line, if I put everything together correctly, should I be able to have a smos usb as the only thing I do on software side and have it work or do I need to install some drivers first? I guess if smos cant fully run, then the gpu dont have drivers and that why they dont work? Any help is appreciated.

You should be able to see your bios settings or a disk boot failure error if your PC components installed correctly without an OS, mainboards has typical "press type key ' in order to get into bios, most probably a F12, F10, F1, or Del.

You may try the windows boot if that would make you feel confident enough to troubleshoot, then go back to SMOS when everything's fine, set aside your GPU's, make your OS worked first, then do the rest.