Hi folks built a new machine yesterday, and although on boot everything powers up (all fans spin and both red and green lights come on) the board shuts down after about 4-5 seconds with no beeps and then does it again and again until I switch it off. I've tried swapping around the ram and swapping out the gfx card for an older one and no luck. All the power sockets on the board are plugged in by the way.
I've come down to two potential problems:
The IP-35E that's been shipped has a BIOS that won't work with the Wolfdale processor out of the box (an Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 LGA775 'Wolfdale' 2.66GHz - 1333FSB) - i.e. it requires a BIOS update (and no I don't have access to another Intel processor to see if that's the problem ) or:
The memory won't work with the default 1.8v setting in the BIOS - I've bought 4GB of the OCZ PC2-8000C5 1000MHz ReaperX HPC Enhanced Bandwidth Edition Dual Channel DDR2 which apparently likes 1.9v
Any ideas folks? I'm so frustrated with this prob
I've come down to two potential problems:
The IP-35E that's been shipped has a BIOS that won't work with the Wolfdale processor out of the box (an Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 LGA775 'Wolfdale' 2.66GHz - 1333FSB) - i.e. it requires a BIOS update (and no I don't have access to another Intel processor to see if that's the problem ) or:
The memory won't work with the default 1.8v setting in the BIOS - I've bought 4GB of the OCZ PC2-8000C5 1000MHz ReaperX HPC Enhanced Bandwidth Edition Dual Channel DDR2 which apparently likes 1.9v
Any ideas folks? I'm so frustrated with this prob