am building a new system and I went with some of Maximum PC's recommendations.
ASUS P5AD2 Premium motherboard
Intel 560 3.6Ghz CPU
Thermaltake Jungle 512 cooler
PC Power and Cooling 510 Express Deluxe PSU
4 - 512Mb Corsair DDR2 XMS2 Pro Series ram
MSI X800XT 256Mb PCI Express video card
SB Audigy 2 ZS Platinum sound card
2 - WD800 80Gb hard drives
2 - Maxtor Diamondmax 10 300Gb SATA 150 drives
When I turn on the power, everything comes on for 1 second and shuts down. I shorted the 2 pins on the power supply and plugged in just the 2 sata drives and the psu worked fine. I stripped everything out except the cpu, 1 stick of ram, still only coming on for 1 second. I checked for shorts and grounds but didn't find any. Just for the hell of it I also tried a different PSU, still the same. I rma'ed the motherboard and the new board does the same thing. I usually build my own computers and haven't had these kind of problems in the past. Any help would be greatly appreciated. It sucks looking at $2500 worth of hardware laying on my table that is just dying to run Doom 3. Thanks.
ASUS P5AD2 Premium motherboard
Intel 560 3.6Ghz CPU
Thermaltake Jungle 512 cooler
PC Power and Cooling 510 Express Deluxe PSU
4 - 512Mb Corsair DDR2 XMS2 Pro Series ram
MSI X800XT 256Mb PCI Express video card
SB Audigy 2 ZS Platinum sound card
2 - WD800 80Gb hard drives
2 - Maxtor Diamondmax 10 300Gb SATA 150 drives
When I turn on the power, everything comes on for 1 second and shuts down. I shorted the 2 pins on the power supply and plugged in just the 2 sata drives and the psu worked fine. I stripped everything out except the cpu, 1 stick of ram, still only coming on for 1 second. I checked for shorts and grounds but didn't find any. Just for the hell of it I also tried a different PSU, still the same. I rma'ed the motherboard and the new board does the same thing. I usually build my own computers and haven't had these kind of problems in the past. Any help would be greatly appreciated. It sucks looking at $2500 worth of hardware laying on my table that is just dying to run Doom 3. Thanks.
