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Yngwie · 02-01-2005, 10:29 AM

it's not a voltage problem. the power supply he is using has an auto voltage selector. Did you plug the 12v plug of the power supply to the motherboard? (to power the CPU)

As someone mentioned it may be that the heat sink is not seated properly. If it was the RAM (1 or more bad sticks) the pc would power up but you'd get a black screen. I had that problem when I bought my asus p4p800 SE, 1gb of kingston hyperX dual channel pc3200 and the same power supply you have. 1 stick of ram was bad so nothing worked. the warranty with the place you bought the parts at may be over but it's still on waranty with the manufacturer.

02-01-2005, 10:29 AM
Yngwie I am an Alien from space Industry Role: Join Date: May 2003 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 11,118	it's not a voltage problem. the power supply he is using has an auto voltage selector. Did you plug the 12v plug of the power supply to the motherboard? (to power the CPU) As someone mentioned it may be that the heat sink is not seated properly. If it was the RAM (1 or more bad sticks) the pc would power up but you'd get a black screen. I had that problem when I bought my asus p4p800 SE, 1gb of kingston hyperX dual channel pc3200 and the same power supply you have. 1 stick of ram was bad so nothing worked. the warranty with the place you bought the parts at may be over but it's still on waranty with the manufacturer.