Problems Booting up on New Build

[Natems]

My old power supply fried and in turn fried my old motherboard, so I went out and bought a new power supply, motherboard, processor, RAM and video card. I swapped it all out, only hooking up the bare minimum in the system. I then went to boot up and the processor fan started spinning, but then stopped after the intial kick-start. The HDD light never came on and the computer never completed the boot up (no sound of the hard drive ever starting up, video card fan never started etc.).

Anyone have any advice?

[doctorgonzo]

Have you followed all of the steps in this thread? Have you taken everything out of the case and tried to hook it up?

Please post your system specs, too.

[Natems]

I've tried everything in that thread other than checking if my V-Card is seated in there firmly and taking off the M-board battery and putting it back in. Unfortunately I'm at work and won't be able to try those options till I run home during the lunch break.

My System specs are as follows:
350W Power Supply set for 110
Asus P5GD2-X INTEL 915P CHIPSET SERIAL ATA150 ATX
PENTIUM 4 640 3.2G (800MHz)
CORSAIR TWIN2X1024-5400C4(512MB x 2)
XFX GEFORCE 6800 XT 256MB PCI EXPRESS DDR3
2 60GB IDE Hard Drives, one plugged in at current config as master

[glc]

A 350 watt PSU is pretty light for PCI Express unless you are using onboard video - is it a 24 pin ATX 2.0 unit? What brand and model is it? Did you remove the motherboard from the case to do those tests?

[arix]

its eighter PSU or MOBO

[Natems]

It's an Antec 350W 2.0 24-pin. I removed the motherboard from the case, popped out the battery, reset the CMOS and still ended up with the same result. I just don't understand why the fan will start spinning and then slow to a stop with nothing else going. Capacitor discharging maybe?

I also removed the processor and fan to check the setting and the pins to make sure there weren't any issues there and everything was fine. The v-card is well settled and the RAM is in firmly and correctly. I'm going to try a more powerful power supply and hopefully that will resolve the issue.

[glc]

That power supply should be fine - it's a high quality unit. Make sure both the 24 pin ATX and the 4 pin aux are connected.

Are you sure the heatsink retainer pins are fully snapped down and locked?

[Natems]

Both of the power connections to the motherboard are locked in solidly as are the heatsink retainer pins. I triple checked all the connections.

If, as you say, the power supply is of high quality, I'm really not sure what the problem is unless the motherboard is faulty.