Hi all,
The Problem that i'm having is, I've just built a new pc, made sure every part is pluged in correctly. Now when i start the machine, I dont get any beeps or errors.
It starts up but when its showing the intel logo and the F8 + Del, etc message, it just turns off.
My PC Specs;-

MSI - P4M900M2-F L Mobo.
Seagate 160Gb SATA HD
Intel P4 651 Soc.775 3.5
Samsung 512mb PC2-5300 DDR2
Arianet 2GB PC2-5300 DDR2
DVD-Rom Drive
OCZ 500W StealthSstream PSu
Xpert Vision nVidia GeForce 8600GT 512mb

Im not sure as to what the problem could be because i had a 1.6 Celeron Pro. + the 512mb DDR2 and a 300W PSU Installed first.
( Not sure if i had a sata HD or a IDE HD install as both are 160GBs )


Could someone help me solve this problem.

Thanks Raz.

First thing I would suggest is remove that Samsung 512MB stick of RAM -- you could be having a compatibility issue.

hi ih8bills,
I dont think its the 512mb ram, cos i used it, when i was using the celeron 1.6 cpu. someone told me, that it might be the p4 cpu, cos i didnt add any thermal compound of my own but used the one that came, already on the heartsink with the p4 cpu.

Im guesting its one of the new parts that i got, as i had the celeron 1.6 cpu, 512mb ram and modo from before and together, were working fine.
Another thing, after taking out the vga card and the 2gb ram, now when i start the pc, it shows me the, which mode do i want the pc to start in, 'normall or safe mode'. but as soon as i click normal mode the pc turns off again.

RAM can go bad.Have you actualy removed all RAM and tested one at a time?

Is your mainboard compatable with diffrent sized RAM?I do not think it is compatable it is matching sticks of RAM.

ih8bills is correct remove the 512 stick.

Now OCZ power supply,have you connected the 20 pin and 4 pin into mainboard?Some connectors are complete 24 pins.

Have you connected the 4 pin ATX 12v to mainboard?

Are you sure your power on connections are correct coming from the front of your case?

Is the hard drive IDE one connected to right port on the board is SATA in port 0?

How did you setup your drives in BIOS?Cable select?Or another?

Has this pc even been formatted?As a new build should be nice clean install?

Are ALL the parts for this build brand new?

Can you enter BIOS and see what your settings are?

Did you install new BIOS update?

Make sure all connections are fully pushed in.

You could strip her back down to minimum to boot her,remove HDDs CD/DVD roms,RAM all but one stick.Test your hardware.

I was not saying the 512 stcik was defective-- I was saying it might be incompatible with the other RAM/CPU/Motherboard-- when you you have no boot-- the 1st thing you do is remove the "oddball".

Exactly remove the odd one out.

Should be matching sticks.

Especially with RAM-- it's never good to mix/match RAM
I don't know what OS you are using... either... but if it's Vista--it is much fussier than any other OS