MSI K9N SLI help needed please

[Tbirdkid]

So, here is the deal. I have this motherboard with a 3800 cpu. I have an 8800gt, and 4 gigs of ram. These sticks of ram are 1 gig per stick.

So, I have taken everything out of the box except for the video, the mobo, the cpu, and the memory. I try to start it up, and it wont start with both the 4 pin molex connector and the cpu1 connector hooked up. So, I go to remove the cpu1 connection off of it and it fires and keeps running. However, it never posts. If I turn it off, then plug the cpu1 back in, and unplug the 4 pin molex connector it wont even stay running. It just shuts back off.

I dont get it. I have replaced the mobo, and the power supply which by the way is an ocz 500 psu.

Ideas?

 

[mpilchfamily]

You know you need to list all the components.

Have you tried to use just one DIMM of RAM. 4 can be a strain for most motherboards and may need a bump up in voltage.

 

[Tbirdkid]

I did. I took it down to just bare components. 1 stick, the cpu, the mb, and the video. Still, will not post. I think its a memory voltage issue, which I am looking into right now. Thing is, why would it drop to a point where it wont run if its been running good for a few months? I guess it could be break in, but this is a brand new motherboard from rma....

 

[Tbirdkid]

I got it. It ended up being a bad usb header...