A problem that no one can fix!!!

[netmaster548]

HELP!!! I am building a computer for a friend and for some reason it just shuts down automatically. It never show anything on the moniter and I have already tried swithching video cards. The light on the DVD-rom drive does not start up but the CD-RW light works. Niether of the drive bays open up either. It has an Athlon XP 1700 and it has a Gigabyte GA-7VTXHmotherborad. An antec KS282 case with an AMD certified ANtec 300W P/S (pp303X). Two evergreen case fans. Geforce 2 Ti 200 video card with the CT5880 sound chip on the motherboard. IBM deskstar GXP60. I need help. PLZ anyone.

[HAL9000]

Start here. (http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12753)

[LawyerRon]

Take Hal's advice. You've got so many things happening at once, you need to sort things out.

[Hoozat]

check you jumpers on the mb for the shutdown switch.. mis-pinning it will cause that same problem

[netmaster548]

The jumpers are good

[Hpro]

Gigabite is very tricky when it comes to RAM and eventually XP Loaded - even with Win98 or ME it will shutdown without warning..Sot his means Check RAM then the related speeds in the bios..

[no_fat_chicks]

The problem is likely your RAM..

remove anything that has Nova written on it & make sure the rest is the same..