Boot Problem

[(~Freik~)]

I just bought a Motherboard, Processor, RAM, and video card from a friend. I bring it home, throw it in a case with a hard drive and dvd burner that i was using in my previous system.

The system turns on.
BUT most of them time, it turns itself off b4 i posts.
Sometimes, i get all the way past post and to where its looking for an OS.
Its never the same amount of time when it turns itself off.
When it boots, it detects everything right.

The computer is a:
Athlon 64 3500+
2 Gigs of DDR 400 Ram (2 sticks Corsiar)
BFG GeForce 6600 GT PCIe
Asus A8N SLI Delux Motherboard
320GB Sata WD hard drive
Random 16x DVD burner.
ThermalTake SViking Case
Antec NeoHE 430 High Efficiency 430W ATX12V v2.2 Computer Power Supply,

I have unplugged EVERYTHING from the board except the VGA, RAM, and CPU/CPU Fan. And its still doing the same thing.
When i unplugged everything, i did them individually to see if one thing was causing the problem, first time i just unplugged the power from the device, then when it didnt work i would remove the actual cable connection from the motherboard.
I've even unplugged all the extra usb slots and Sound/Mic extension from the board as well.

I have another power supply to try tomorrow, but its a cheal 480W power supply made my demon or whoever.

The friend plugged it all up b4 he sold it to me and updated the bios and everything, and it restarted for him fine.

Personally i think its either a power supply issue, or that the CMOS battery is about dead and rebooting.
This is my first Athlon 64 processor computer and my first PCIe card to install, hopefully something changed and im just overlooking something easy.

The board has the 24pin power connector and the 4 pin connector, as well as a Molex connector on the motherboard, all of which are plugged in.


Any Ideas?

[Markel]

Being able to boot off a hard drive that was loaded on another system is quite unlikely. The first thing I would try would be to try to boot off the OS CD and do a fresh install on the new system.

[johnnymk]

Being able to boot off a hard drive that was loaded on another system is quite unlikely. The first thing I would try would be to try to boot off the OS CD and do a fresh install on the new system.

Does XP even allow the different computer to boot, i.e. too many hardware changes?

[Markel]

Does XP even allow the different computer to boot, i.e. too many hardware changes?
It might boot and immediately require re-activation. However, there are so many drivers that are associated with the MB, etc., that you would probably not even get that far.

[clutchy]

have you tried only using a single stick of ram? CPU fan plugged in?

i'd try unplugging the HD after trying a single stick of ram, with the cd in.


I've gotten a different system to boot up OS and everything with all new components...



i'm kinda stumped on this one.

[(~Freik~)]

it was the power supply, apparently i needed more power.

[clutchy]

it was the power supply, apparently i needed more power.

crazy... I'm running an a64 3200 @2.2ghz which i believe is what the 3500 runs at.

1 gig of ram,
120gig SE drive
16x dvd burner
48x cd burner
9600xt
wifi card

all on a 350watt PS... never had any problems... When did people start using bigger power supplies than 350?

i assume it's your vid card that's pulling down all that extra power...

[shocky123]

(imo) when the pci-express cards came out.. that's when power started to became an issue. Or maybe it was when the dual-core systems (which came after pci-e cards I believe) came out it really kicked off, being as the Intel 'dual-core' chips used more than double the original power of the p4's inside them.

~Kyle