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Thanks for all the help guys. It turns out of all things it was the ram voltage and/or timings. Never even occurred to me to look at coz I figured if it booted the first time, all hunky dory right?. wrong. Anyway, something to add to the knowledge base if anyone else has this issue in future.

I've also used the monitor with another pc and it works just fine. no changes in cabling or anything. it also works fine on the above build for that first startup. once i turn it off and turn it back on again, then no signal to monitor and no POST beep.

I meant the POST beep. When I start it that second time, theres no POST beep.

I do have to set the time and date but only after resetting the CMOS. It doesnt reset by itself. The thing I cant figure out is why does it boot up after resetting CMOS and works just fine, but once shut off and turned back on, refuses to boot.

I mean when I start up after discharging the CMOS, it boots up normally and goes into windows. When I restart within windows(so that it never actually turns off), it also goes straight into windows with the usual startup beeps. When i choose "shut down" so the pc turns off, then hit the...

Thanks for the advice. I flashed the latest BIOS on. Still the same issue. using VGA port on an old CRT monitor. the monitor itself is fine. Using stock Win 7. No installation of this Control Center thingie and no overclocking options in the BIOS. plain vanilla.

Hope this helps! OS - Win 7 Ultimate Mb - MSI 890GXM-G65 Video - onboard PSU - generic Bestec 300W HDD - Seagate 1TB Ram - G.Skill Ripjaws 2 x 4GB - DDR3-1333 PC3-10666 1.5V CL9-9-9-24

Hi there, I just built a new pc with athlon quad core cpu and 2 x 4GB sticks of ram. The only other thing plugged in at present is the HDD. After putting it all together I installed windows etc and everything works fine. However, once I shut down and tried to restart later, everything comes...

maybe it was in the middle of its download to the satellite tracking you? :)

so apart from crap videos, build quality is good?. nothing breaking in the first hour? :).

foxconn makes the ipods for apple. cant be that bad. tho the "no returns" bit on the page is kind of worrying.

in case anyone is interested, you can also sign up for an account on their website which gives you all the same abilities, just no card. this makes it free as long as you dont get a card. and of course the other load/spend fees. but if you can do it all to/from your bank account and/or paypal...

i saw these drives at Staples also marked with the $109 special buy thing. but in the fine print it said "after $30 rebate". so the real price is still $139. i dunno how the prev poster managed to get in on it at the price of $109 unless thats what it scanned as?. enquiring minds want to know.

could've been worse Rottman, they could have accused us of fraud as some people have reported. anyway, bought that drive and will see what happens. will prob end up returning it come sunday unless i can figure out something else. or hit the ahwatukee BB and see what happens.

there are quite a few deals on officemax and staples for printers and all-in-one dealies as well. $30 gift cert at staples for any order over $150. use a coupon and you save $50 or more, depending on the amount of printer you buy. i just dont know anything about printers except that canon and...