Here's what was wrong
Through either bad design or my own incompetence the way the front I/o connectors were seated on the motherboard made it so when I turned it on I was in effect holding down the reset button (a friend who is more savvy than me modified the connector and its fine now.
I had...
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I just finished a new build (here is the parts list) that I tried starting up for the first time this morning and it was immediately very loud. Half way into my windows install it shut down unexpectedly. Since that I've tried restarting three times, and each time it...