why wont it stay on?? help plz

[l7.64ss]

i put together a new rig, x58 mobo i7 cpu 9800 gtx+ wd 150 gig raptor and ram, got it all installed in my case and when i turn it on it stays on for bit then turns off, and repeats, also no display is coming from my card?... how do i get this thing to run, this is my first biuld, i joined this forum just for this reason, and also cuz i am going to mod the case lol

[mtekk]

Does the motherboard make any beeping noises? Verify that you have the heatsink/cooling device for the CPU is making adequate contact with the CPU (make sure you have some thermal paste in there too). You may want to try swapping out the video card and the ram as you may have a bad video card or stick of ram.

[nevermind1534]

could be heat. You didn't overclock at all, did you?

What PSU did you get?

[l7.64ss]

i have a corsair 850, the cpu is in rite and the fan is installed just for testing cuz i dont have thermal goo, this comp as never displayed anything its a bran new build so no overclocking has been done. yet hahahah

[l7.64ss]

also i have a dvi to hdmi cable running from the card to a samsung could that affect anything?

[nevermind1534]

also i have a dvi to hdmi cable running from the card to a samsung could that affect anything?

Probably not.

There wasn't any thermal paste applied to the heatsink when you got it? Heat might be playing a factor if there is none.

[l7.64ss]

nope no paste came on anything or in any of the box's that all the stuff came in

[crenn]

What about the HSF that the CPU came with? That WILL have thermal paste on it.

[l7.64ss]

nope when i opened the i7 box no paste,,, any way why do u think that it is turning off and on like so and has no display... what r u post to do when u first turn on computer that u just bi built?

[l7.64ss]

there is paste on the hsf thow my bad