Restarting itself after a few seconds

Soldato
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Hi,


Just put together a little ITX system, and am having an issue. After turning on within a couple of seconds the system restarts itself before POSTing. The motherboard has build in CPU and GPU, so nothing to re-insert other than the RAM.

I only have 1 stick of RAM (I mistakenly ordered a single DIMM not a set), with the stick in both either slot it does the same, but with the module removed it doesn't restart itself (which rules out a short, no?).

Would a faulty ram module cause the system to reboot itself, or is it a redherring maybe? I've already tried another PSU to try to rule out a power issue.
 
Try taking the bios battery out for an hour, thats fixed it before a few times for me in the past.

Ram could be the issue, but as you have no means of testing it you may aswell try the bios battery for now.
 
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