Help!

jimbob83avfc · 8 Oct 2011 at 21:40

Someone please help, I installed my new bundle from overclockers today and at first everything was fine. Now I am getting random freezes, after which I have to restart, when doing so the system then restarts itself after 15 seconds of trying to boot. Any ideas what it could be? Quite worrying.
I did notice when I received the bundle that the motherboard seemed slightly bent, I thought I'd still install it anyway as nothing seemed damaged, could it be the board?

Any help appreciated thank you.

jimbob83avfc · 8 Oct 2011 at 21:46

My bundle is this

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-063-OE

Sorry, im a noob to all this stuff, I have never fitted a motherboard before this is my first time.

jimbob83avfc · 8 Oct 2011 at 21:53

The corsair A50 had a plastic square over where it sits on the cpu, I removed that.
By sandoffs do you mean the brass bits on the case that you screw the motherboard screws into? If so, yes, I have them all in the right places.
Haven't checked the connections yet I will now

jimbob83avfc · 8 Oct 2011 at 22:02

Ok checked it, all the connections are in soundly mate

jimbob83avfc · 8 Oct 2011 at 22:24

I'm a total noob mate, is that easy to do? I know how to get into the BIOS but how do you reset it?

jimbob83avfc · 8 Oct 2011 at 22:28

Another thing, when I turn the pc off or restart it, it tries to reboot for about 7 seconds (on a blank screen) and restarts itself, then boots up normally..

jimbob83avfc · 9 Oct 2011 at 12:14

Could it be I haven't put enough thermal paste under the CPU cooler? I put on a ball a bit smaller than a pea as it's my first time doing it and I didn't want to put too much on. If so can it be taken back off and more added?

jimbob83avfc · 9 Oct 2011 at 16:53

Seems to be running fine now, I changed out the old sata cables i was using for the new ones that came in the motherboard box, could it have been the old cables i used werent fast enough for the 6gb/s motherboard slots and my 6gb/s hdd?