Asrock 939Dual-SATA2 Power-up trouble, not cold boot issue

[Eggroll822]

I just bought a 939Dual-SATA2 from ASRock and a 4200+ x2. The thing is not even powering on!! A friend and I tried for a while and it suddenly powered on after about 20 min of fiddling around no idea what was wrong. Here is some stuff that I go through.

Flip the switch in the back and all the lights and fans turn on for like 2 seconds. I press the power switch and nothing happens. I flip the switch back off and unplug the power cable and I hear what I think is the capacitors releasing charge. Plug back in and flip the switch in teh back and power button still doesn't do anything.

I unflipped the switch and unplugged the cable. I went to go take a shower. I came back and tried it one last time and it spun up and lights came on in all their glory. Once it got started the problem was fine restarted and everything. Same happened at a friends house when I was assembling... We tried for a while stopped for a while and then gave it another shot and it worked.

I shut it down and left the comp plugged in thinking maybe I can let something charge or what not. I wake up this moprning and the board has a faint beeeeeeeep and a sporadic real Beep.

I am aware of the cold boot problem, but could not get the update on a floppy till now. Now the comp isn't even flashing when i flip the switch. Suggestions?

Specs:
2 cd/dvd drives burners
2 IDE hard drives
3 2 120 mm and 1 80 mm
AMD x2 4200+
Ultra X-Connect 500W Power Supply
Geforce 6800 AGP
2 gb corsair xms

Thought it was a power issue but I left board, hdd, and card plugged up and nothing... Plus I have freakin 500W

Is this a bad board? started fine a few times. Strange though that it only booted linux fine and windows came up with a blue screen even before the logo popped up with the scrolling bar.

 

[SynthDude2001]

Stupid question, but do you have the 4-pin 12V cable from the PSU connected to the motherboard too? If it's connected, and the power switch is correctly connected to the board, I would almost suspect a bad board. That power supply should be plenty for the setup (it's actually not too different from mine). To try to isolate that, unplug all nonessential components and try to boot that way, and also perhaps try another power supply. If neither of those things work, then it's almost certainly a bad motherboard and you should get it replaced. If either of those things does work, then maybe your power supply is having problems. Sorry I can't be of more help, this is just a few basic things that came to mind when I read your post...

Edit: Just noticed where you said that Windows gave a blue screen error upon boot...did you happen to catch a specific error code? That might possibly be indicative of bad hardware (RAM, motherboard, CPU even maybe...it just depends on what the error was).

 

[Eggroll822]

yup the 4 pin 12 v cable is plugged in.

error flashed for litterally less than a second. Linux booted fine though and detected all the components. Hard drives, cd drives, video card, network, cpu and other...

I will try flashing cmos and using something to short the power switch when i get back home.

 

[imported_Imp]

I've heard more bad about Ultra than good. Have you tried another PSU? Doesn't really sound like a board problem as much as I'd like to think so.

 

[Eggroll822]

yea i just hooked it up to an old computer thing didnt' even start. I'll have to send it in for service. Hopefully another PSU can solve it i'll update you guys.