Totally Lost In Pc Repairs

[Scarlettladie]

February 2015 I built a pc from the ground up and it worked FANTASTICALLY for the first year. Then it started to shut down and restart randomly. I bought a new heatsink at this point. THEN I got new ram as well. Then it was shutting down and wouldn't turn back on. At that point I purchased a new PSU and when that failed to fix it I purchased a new motherboard. I tested it on the outside of the case at this point a it worked outside the case. Cool. I got new spacers for mounting the motherboard to the case. It still didn't work. I swapped my husbands cpu into my pc to see if his (which was working fantastically) would work in mine and it still wouldn't even turn on. THEN I GOT A NEW CASE! And surprise surprise, it didn't work!!!
To explain what its doing-Push the power button and the cpu fan does a degree turn and stops. It only does this the first time and then you need to turn off the psu and turn it back on to do this again.

I have currently hooked up
NZXT case
MSI z97 GD65 Gaming motherboard
EVGA 750 GQ PSU
EVGA Geforce GTX 970 GPU
Intel I7-4790k CPU
Trident G.Skill ddr3 8gig ram

Again, this works BEAUTIFULLY outside the case. Am I missing something stupid basic and I'm over thinking it? Any help would be SO appreciated!

-Scarlettladie

 

[kanewolf]

Verify that you have standoffs ONLY where there are screw holes in the motherboard. Verify that you have standoffs under ALL the holes in the motherboard. Verify that you have screws in all the standoffs.