Continuously rebooting?

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Madak

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Hi, I built the first computer I've ever built a week ago and for the most part everything was working fine.

Now though, it keeps rebooting continuously. It doesn't throw any software errors, it never gets to the BIOS, it just sits at the screen for my mobo and then restarts. I checked my hardware with some programs when I first built it and they detected all of my RAM, so I don't think it could be seated incorrectly (could it?), and the temperature for all of my parts never really got above 55C.

My first thought was that my PSU, which is a 550 Watt BFG, didn't have enough power.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817702012

My video card is a EVGA 260 GTX Superclocked edition which says it should have a minimum of 500 Watts. I also have an Intel E8500 3.16GHz processor.

Does my PSU have enough power for both of those? Or could it be something else?
 
I would think your PS definately has enough juice for your machine unless it's going bad.

Have you tried clearing your BIOS?

Also, a list of your parts may be beneficial.
 
Besides the PSU, here's the rest:

MB GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3R P45 775 R
VGA EVGA 896-P3-1257-AR GTX260 RT
CPU INTEL|C2D E8500 3.16G 775 45N R
MEM 2Gx2|OCZ OCZ2G10664GK R
HD 320G|WD 7K 16M SATA2 WD3200AAKS
DVD BURN SONY|AD-7240S-0B %

I run Vista x64 if that matters too.
 
I tried booting it again, with the intent to reset the BIOS and the damn thing started working again just fine. This is not the first time this has happened--it booting continuously and then suddenly working hours later.

Could it be overheating?
 
No need to reboot, just follow the instructions in my link.

You said your temps were good.

If I were you, I'd start a Memtest for the RAM and another free tool to see how your temps are after stressing it for awhile.
 
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