Please help....
I am strugling with this new computer set up. I have purchased the following components.
Intel Core 2 Duo E6300
Asus P5B Deluxe
Asus EN7600 512 MB Graphics Card (PCIe 16)
Corsair Twin XMS2 6400 512 MB x2 (DDR2) 5-5-5-12 1.9 V
450 W Power supply (Proven to be working)
Western Digital 160 GB SATA Harddrive
Artic Silver Thermal Paste
Separate fan for the fanless graphics card.
I put everything together and for the first hour or so, everything worked perfectly. I did not change anything in bios... and I put in my Windows XP CD, and began installing. I did the normal formatting of harddrive (which took about 1 hour) and I moved onto the windows installation. Half way through, while copying files to harddrive, computer just rebooted. And it keeps rebooting itself. The symptoms include:
computer will turn off and reboot in bios
computer will keep itsefl in rebooting loop
computer will turn off. wait a while and power up again
The on- time for the computer is so short that (2-3 minutes) that I can't install nor change a thing in bios.
I previously had the same setup as above excpet a different motherboard (Gigabyte GA-965P DS3 which I was successful in building and using but it started the same exact symptoms as above after 2 weeks of use. I confirmed that it is not a bad power supply issue by buying a brand new (several) PSU and experiencing same issues. The above components are all new (via RMA). It's not overheating issue as the board reports both cpu and board temperature to be well below 35 C. I am helpless and almost hopeless. Is it the memory issue? The Asus website says the the above memory of 5-5-5-12 is compatible with the board... Am I doing something wrong in setting things up???? Any advice would be very helpful....
I am strugling with this new computer set up. I have purchased the following components.
Intel Core 2 Duo E6300
Asus P5B Deluxe
Asus EN7600 512 MB Graphics Card (PCIe 16)
Corsair Twin XMS2 6400 512 MB x2 (DDR2) 5-5-5-12 1.9 V
450 W Power supply (Proven to be working)
Western Digital 160 GB SATA Harddrive
Artic Silver Thermal Paste
Separate fan for the fanless graphics card.
I put everything together and for the first hour or so, everything worked perfectly. I did not change anything in bios... and I put in my Windows XP CD, and began installing. I did the normal formatting of harddrive (which took about 1 hour) and I moved onto the windows installation. Half way through, while copying files to harddrive, computer just rebooted. And it keeps rebooting itself. The symptoms include:
computer will turn off and reboot in bios
computer will keep itsefl in rebooting loop
computer will turn off. wait a while and power up again
The on- time for the computer is so short that (2-3 minutes) that I can't install nor change a thing in bios.
I previously had the same setup as above excpet a different motherboard (Gigabyte GA-965P DS3 which I was successful in building and using but it started the same exact symptoms as above after 2 weeks of use. I confirmed that it is not a bad power supply issue by buying a brand new (several) PSU and experiencing same issues. The above components are all new (via RMA). It's not overheating issue as the board reports both cpu and board temperature to be well below 35 C. I am helpless and almost hopeless. Is it the memory issue? The Asus website says the the above memory of 5-5-5-12 is compatible with the board... Am I doing something wrong in setting things up???? Any advice would be very helpful....
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