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Mother Board Failure?

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Miticide

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Hey all,

I'm trying to build an new pc. When i push the power button the CPU fan and PS fan both spin for half a second and then shuts off. i have used an known working PS to test the set up and achieved the same results. So i'm guessing it must be a bad motherboard?

It is either the front pin arrangment is not set up correctly, which i'm 95% sure its correct. White pins are negative and colored ones are postive. What i'm not sure about is that one of the front LED ,green and white, pin has a dongle connection on the end. But I'm thinking that shouldn't really make a difference.

Currently I only have the CPU, PS, MB, 1 stick of ram (2GB), and front pins connected together. And i'm still only getting 0.5 sec of power.

Is there anything else I should try before I declare the MB dead?

Thank you all :)


New Computer specs

DVD
LG 22X DVD±R DVD Burner Black SATA Model GH22NS30 - OEM

CPU
Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 Wolfdale 2.53GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor Model BX80571E7200 - Retail

Powersupply
OCZ StealthXStream OCZ600SXS 600W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready Active PFC Power Supply - Retail

Ram
OCZ 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model OCZ2P8004GK - Retail

Hard drive
Seagate ST3640323AS 640GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM

Case
Rosewill R5717-P SL 120mm Fan ATX Mid Tower Computer Case withTool-Free kits - Retail

Motherboard
XFX MG63Mi7159 LGA 775 NVIDIA GeForce 7150 / nForce 630i HDMI Micro ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail

Video
9800 GT 512mb

Wireless card
ENCORE ENLWI-N PCI 2.3 Wireless Adapter - Retail
 
Well as long as you are using the right pins you can.t hook up the power switch backwards.

Anyway to me it sounds like the board is shorting out on your case somewhere. I would pull it from the case and see if you can get it to post while set up out side of the case.
 
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