So I bought all of the parts to build a new pc, consists of:

Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 Allendale 1.8GHz LGA 775 Processor.
OCZ GameXStream OCZ700GXSSLI ATX12V 700W Power Supply.
EVGA 122-CK-NF63-TR LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard.
CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory (four sticks totaling 4g ram).
EVGA 256-P2-N625-AR GeForce 7900GS 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16
HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card.

This is the first computer I've put together.

I've a fair amount of knowledge, enough to set up this pc, at least so I thought.

I've it all in my case, power to the processor, power to motherboard, hardrive connected, cd rom drive connected, graphics card connected. Power and data cables to everything.

Came down to the headers, I've power switch connected, I've reset switch connected. The HDD Led is connected, but the Pwr Led is not connected because it is three pronged or so. I didn't think that mattered to start the computer up anyway.

So I'm confused here, and asking for some help please, as to why my system won't boot up, it starts up for one second then shuts down.

I found out my problem was the screw risers, I had way too many put on and it was touching the motherboard, which explains why it came on and shut off like a second later.

Now I have the right screw risers connected correctly and only using which ones I need, it comes on, fans all spinning and on the led error it just says -- which means I'ts not passing POST according to a EVGA customer support member, but I've connected a video card and seem to be getting no connection through my monitor the screen remains blank/black.

HDD is not connected as it is not needed, nor is the floppy or cd rom drive.

I shipped my motherboard back to where I bought it from because I believed the motherboard was the source of the problem, later they emailed me back after they recieved it saying there was not a problem with the motherboard that would stop it from working.

They also said upon recieving the motherboard I could send it back and recieve a replacment board if I still couldn't get it to work.

A friend said I should try to get a replacement board through EVGA and I would get better service out of them.

It seems I have an 800 Fsb cpu and a motherboard requiring 1066 Fsb is this the cause of my problem?

I'm not exactly sure what I should do, anyone know what could be the problem, and/or what I should do to go about getting this problem fixed?

Thanks.

Hi Norseguy,
Sorry about the delay in responding to you.
We have a staff of techs who have a wide variety of skills and will be able to help you with your problem, this is not my area of expertise, one of the folks who can help you should be along shortly.
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