New Comp Problem

[uacat360]

Hey guys,
So I built my buddy a new system, and am having a problem
Following Hardware:

Asus M3N78 PRO ATX Motherboard
AMD Phenom 9500 2.20GHz
4gigs CORSAIR XMS2 DDR 800 (2x2 Sticks)
2 IDE HD's
Corsair 400W PSU
Sony Sata DVD Drive

Here is the problem,
I got it to boot the first time, and it just hung on the bios screen and turned off. Tried to turn it back on, and it wouldnt boot. Unpluged all drives and everything still didnt boot. I then cleared the RTC along with removing the CMOS Battery, and it booted fine. Thought everything was ok, plugged in the ram and it booted and said it didnt find a drive. Then plugged in the HDD's got it to boot, said it couldnt find a system disk, then shut off and would boot. I saw a check some error, but didnt get to write down the exact error. When the power button is pressed, the mobo light blinks 6 times, and goes back to being solid. I can get it to boot everything if i clear the cmos, and i have no idea what the problem is.
Thanks for any help.

 

[starfireone]

I would think not enough juice from the PSU. 400w is nothing.

 

[mpilchfamily]

The Corsair PSU has plenty of power for that system. Assuming your using onboard Video or a low ebd video card. But we are talking pretty low end video card here.

 

[uacat360]

I am using the on board video card. So heres the new developments, i got it to boot (after removing the cmos) flashed to the newest bios, and it seemed to be stable. Tried to get it to format the drive, got to 1 percent and bam nothing. I was on the phone with the tech support from asus, when my cell decided to hang out, he was saying he thought it could be a PSU problem. Im going to pull the one out of my system (antec 550) and see if that helps, if not the computer is ending up in my pool.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Originally posted by: uacat360
I am using the on board video card. So heres the new developments, i got it to boot (after removing the cmos) flashed to the newest bios, and it seemed to be stable. Tried to get it to format the drive, got to 1 percent and bam nothing. I was on the phone with the tech support from asus, when my cell decided to hang out, he was saying he thought it could be a PSU problem. Im going to pull the one out of my system (antec 550) and see if that helps, if not the computer is ending up in my pool.

I know it's frustrating sometimes, but you can make it work

 

[uacat360]

Ended up being the PSU. I used my antec 550W from my computer, and it was stable, formatted the drive, got windows to install and everything. I Guess 400W wasnt enough...hummm

 

[Atheus]

Originally posted by: uacat360
Ended up being the PSU. I used my antec 550W from my computer, and it was stable, formatted the drive, got windows to install and everything. I Guess 400W wasnt enough...hummm

Wow I wouldn't have expected that... maybe the Corsairs are not up to scratch? More likely you got a dud unit though. You gonna RMA it? 400W really should power that system fine, especially with onboard video. I have an X1900XT on a 400W FSP unit in one of my old machines.

 

[uacat360]

I think he actually wants to swap it out for a modular one anyways. Itll be nice to not have 50 billion cables everywhere. Plus its about the same price, maybe 10-20 bucks more.