Problem that I haven't seen before.

kayijin

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I recently put together a computer, with a K8NS-Ultra, AMD Athlon 64 3000, 2X512MB Corsair Value RAM, and a GeForce FX 5500. I work at a computer store, and have put together many many machines, with this exact same setup. Except I haven't ran into this problem.

When I start the machine, I see the FX 5500 on the screen. Then when it goes the the POST window. Than it beeps once, (I know what one Beep is), and starts to go through the list, but when it hits the Processor, it shows AMD Athlon 64 3000 (what it is suppose to be), but right before it starts to display the memory, it restarts. Does the same thing over and over again.

I opened up the computer, replaced the PSU, thinking it might have been that. But, to no avail, I can seem to get the computer to boot past the CPU.

Does anyone have any suggestions??

BTW, I have already check for more standoffs, than normal, and have check all connections to the motherboard, I have also check all the connectors to the computer to make sure that it wasn't that. The only thing that is different, is that I put it on a Battery Backup, but I didn't think that that would do this. I also, used the none battery backup parts of it.
 
Do you have some spare ram to try?

It sounds like it is finding the CPU fine, but dying at the RAM.

Has it ever worked?

If so, what changed right before it stopped working?

If you don't have spare ram to try, you can reset the CMOS.

if there is nore than one stick of RAM, try them one at a time.
 
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