Here is a problem that has been driving me crazy. About 5 months ago I decided to build my first computer. I did a little research and I bought a good machine for about $3,300. It has been nothing but problems. About a month after I built it, when I would go and turn it on, it would turn off after about 3 seconds. After hitting the power button several times the computer would finally stay on. About two months after, I turned the computer on and everything was green. You could see everything, windows loading, my desktop, but it was green, and then about 5 to 10 min. later the screen went blue and I just shut the computer off. I tested the screen on a different computer and didn’t have a problem with it. So I hooked up my build and tried it again. This time it would not turn on, no matter what. So after some trouble shooting I decided to RMA the power supplies (because once when I turned on the computer my motherboard beeped and when I went to look up what it meant it said that the processor wasn’t getting power). So about a month later I got the power supplies back and hooked it up again with the same result. BUT this time I figured out that if I clear the CMOS by putting the jumper over the two CMOS ping on my motherboard, it would turn on and stay on. So I decided to RMA the motherboard. Well just today I got it back with the same problem and the same “solution”. The only way I can turn the computer on is if I clear the CMOS. I have no idea why it is doing this. Also while Windows was updating my screens flashed (I have a duel-monitor set up) and my right screen was black and white. I have no idea what is going on and I would like to get what I am calling my “$3,000 paperweight” back up and running normally. Details on my build are as followed, with the number next to it of how many I have:
1: Antec Performance One P190 Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 650W+550W = Total 1200W Power Supply
2: Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory
2: Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD 150GB 10,000 RPM 16MB Cache Serial ATA150 Hard Drive
2: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3500630AS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
1: EVGA 768-P2-N831-AR GeForce 8800GTX 768MB 384-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card
1: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz 2 x 4MB L2 Cache LGA 775 Quad-Core Processor – Retail
2: LG Black 20X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 10X DVD+R DL 20X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache ATAPI / E-IDE Super Multi DVD Burner
1: GIGABYTE GA-N680SLI-DQ6 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard – Retail
1: SAMSUNG Black 1.44MB 3.5″ Internal Floppy Drive Model SFD321B/LBL1
1: Windows XP Pro
1: Windows Vista Ultimate
