System:
PC Power and Cooling PPCS500 Silencer 500 EPS 12V 80+ Certified Power Supply
Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3L
Intel Pentium E5200 Wolfdale 2.5GHz
G.SKILL HK 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM
XIGMATEK HDT-S963 92mm Rifle CPU Cooler
SAPPHIRE 100259L Radeon HD 4870 512MB
Antec Three Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower
I am building my first PC from scratch. I installed both sticks of RAM to motherboard, installed CPU with CPU cooler onto motherboard, and connected motherboard to power supply. The problem is that after a few seconds, the power supply and motherboard both reboot and keep doing so. I bought a second power supply (also 500W) and it had the same symptoms (keeps cycling after a few seconds). Am I using the wrong type of RAM? I tried each stick of RAM separately and in each different RAM socket, and same thing. I'm thinking of RMA'ing the Motherboard. Any ideas of what could be wrong? I checked and I did add a bit too much thermal grease for the CPU but got the excess off with Q-tips and none of it got on the pins on the motherboard or CPU.
Any ideas?
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Solution (added so ppl dont have to read whole post)- I finally got my whole system working with my original CPU. It turns out one of my memory sticks was bad which caused the Video card error in BIOS bootup (not sure why). Although in the past I tried it with only one stick at a time, after 8 seconds all the lights on the motherboard went out like it was restarting, but it did not restart. What I noticed is that when I put only one stick of RAM in, I got the one quick beep code from the BIOS (the 'All Clear').
I'm in the middle of setting up windows now, but everything appears to work fine.
Moral of story: Spend the $3, put in a case speaker to help you diagnose from the beginning!
PC Power and Cooling PPCS500 Silencer 500 EPS 12V 80+ Certified Power Supply
Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3L
Intel Pentium E5200 Wolfdale 2.5GHz
G.SKILL HK 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM
XIGMATEK HDT-S963 92mm Rifle CPU Cooler
SAPPHIRE 100259L Radeon HD 4870 512MB
Antec Three Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower
I am building my first PC from scratch. I installed both sticks of RAM to motherboard, installed CPU with CPU cooler onto motherboard, and connected motherboard to power supply. The problem is that after a few seconds, the power supply and motherboard both reboot and keep doing so. I bought a second power supply (also 500W) and it had the same symptoms (keeps cycling after a few seconds). Am I using the wrong type of RAM? I tried each stick of RAM separately and in each different RAM socket, and same thing. I'm thinking of RMA'ing the Motherboard. Any ideas of what could be wrong? I checked and I did add a bit too much thermal grease for the CPU but got the excess off with Q-tips and none of it got on the pins on the motherboard or CPU.
Any ideas?
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Solution (added so ppl dont have to read whole post)- I finally got my whole system working with my original CPU. It turns out one of my memory sticks was bad which caused the Video card error in BIOS bootup (not sure why). Although in the past I tried it with only one stick at a time, after 8 seconds all the lights on the motherboard went out like it was restarting, but it did not restart. What I noticed is that when I put only one stick of RAM in, I got the one quick beep code from the BIOS (the 'All Clear').
I'm in the middle of setting up windows now, but everything appears to work fine.
Moral of story: Spend the $3, put in a case speaker to help you diagnose from the beginning!