New Build Troubleshoot

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daveloft

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I just received my Intel Retail Edge bundle with the Core i7 920 processor and Intel DX58SO motherboard. I also picked up 6GB OCZ platinum Triple Channel DDR3 memory. I already had a 500GB Western Digital SATA boot drive, 1.5TB 7200.11 Seagate SATA storage drive, Samsung SATA optical drive, BFG Geforce 8800 GTS 512MB, and an Enermax 620W Mod82+ PSU.

I was very careful with my build and it went quite well. I've been building computers for 10 years, so I'm not a noob at it. The system booted up fine the first time but it has had many issues. Most of the time I turn it on it doesn't do anything. It powers on but the display never goes green. After a few tries all of a sudden it posts and boots. It even worked long enough to let me instal windows, but inevitably the display will just shut off or the system freezes. After checking and re checking everything I grudgingly went to bed.

I went back to it today but now it just doesn't post at all. Unfortunately I don't have any extra parts to swap in to help diagnose the problem. If anyone has any suggestions I would greatly appreciate any help.
 
The hard drive makes no difference but it seems to run fine with single stick of RAM. I will look into getting the memory replaced under warranty. Any chance it still could be the motherboard? Thanks for your input by the way.
 
Run memtest on the RAM to see whether or not you have bad RAM. It is also possible that one of the RAM slots may instead be bad.
 
I don't think the RAM is faulty, just that you may simply need to raise the voltage (vDIMM and/or MCH voltage). First change voltages to match your RAM specs, then run memtest86+ as tiraides suggested. Report back results.
 
It does not seem to like me changing the default memory. But I did find an old piece of crap PCI-Express card and it seems to be running just fine. So it may have been my Geforce 8800 GTS, but this is a card that ran perfect in my old box for 1.5 years.
 
I picked up an ATI Radeon 4870 w\ 1GB of RAM today. It seems to be running great now so I'm happy. But I'm still a little bitter on loosing a good graphics card, I can't figure out what I did. Hopefully BFG will replace it and I can use it in my secondary PC, which just has onboard video at the moment. Thanks again for your input.
 
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