New Build Help

hadson · 12 Sep 2011 at 09:51

Hi all.

I hope someone can help me with my very first new build, i recently bought

CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 850 "95W Edition" 3.30GHz
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-M68MT-S2 (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard
RAM: 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1600MHz Dual Channel
Cooler: AMD Stock Cooler
OcUK ATI Radeon HD 6870 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Corsair Builder Series CX 500W V2 '80 Plus' 500W ATX Power Supply
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache – OEM
Im using the same case and disc drive.

Unfortunately when i turn on the computer on its works for about 20 seconds before turning the system off completely, i have tried going in to the bios screen or using the disc to install windows but it turns off before i can do something.

Please can you help me?
Thanks in advance

hadson · 12 Sep 2011 at 10:13

Thanks Admiral i really appreciate the advice.

I didn’t have any risers, as the previous motherboard didn’t have any, unfortunate im at work at the moment so cannot try it till tonight. ill have a try tonight and let you know.

i dont have a spare cpu except for a 250 watt one and its probably not powerful enough for my parts.

thanks again

hadson · 12 Sep 2011 at 14:35

Hi Both, i've added the risers to my case, but still no joy im afraid. it still seems to shut down before i can get anywhere after about 20 seconds. any more suggestions?

hadson · 12 Sep 2011 at 15:00

Hi, i wasnt given any thermal paste, its came with, i believe a thermal pad? so i used that instead. could this be a problem?

hadson · 12 Sep 2011 at 15:05

thanks anyway, might just have to take a hit on taking it to the computer shop for them to fix, i suppose its a small price to pay for sorting what ever's wrong with it.

hadson · 12 Sep 2011 at 15:11

yeah. i think my case might already have some risers already. its certainly got bumps on the bottom of the case for the motherboard to be just off the bottom.