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New motherboard faulty?

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XandhursT

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Hi there,

I've got a new motherboard and was putting it into my rig but when I turn on the pc, its powers on for 1 sec - 2 sec max and then turns off... I've tried it with 2 different power supplies so I know its not that. Everything else works as well, cause I've been using components from my old system. My new PSU works on the old motherboard as well as the old power supply on the old motherboard. The new power supply works on the old motherboard as well...

You think that the motherboard is too power hungry and kills the power? The new power supply is a 550wat and the motherboard is a
Asus P5N32 SLI Premium WiFi, NF590 SLI, S775, PCI-E, DDR2, 533/667/800, SATA II, SATA
RAID, ATX

Any ideas on what the problem is? I don't want to send the motherboard off if its not the problem...
 
I've noticed mine doing that in two different ways. First, when I waited longer enough, it would come back on and continue normally...for unknown reasons. Second, I found that my sound card wasn't seated properly, and simply moving it in the slot with pressure corrected the problem. It could be alot of things, so don't point your finger at the motherboard too quickly. Check all connections and reseat all cards and ram.
 
I'll give that a go, but I have a funny feeling that it wont work... All I had connected was 1 memory module, GPU and CPU.
 
Unless there was a fluke of some kind in setting up the new one, the fact that the old one still works is a good sign that there is a problem with the new one. But then I think that you already suspected that.
 
Nah, no fluke. I've tried 3 or 4 times already over the past month or so when Ive had time a way from work. Looks like I'll have to send it back. Gutted. Didn't really wanna have to do that. Makes me think about the company though, because I need to send a 1Gig DDR2 module back to them as that doesnt work either... <_<
 
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