why wont it stay on?? help plz

[nevermind1534]

Also, for future notice, you never, ever want to start up a system without any thermal paste. The crappy stuff they put on the stock heatsinks is fine for testing, but you never want to just have bare metal-on-metal.

It does have thermal paste.

[x88x]

It does have thermal paste.

Yeah, I know, I was just making sure he knew that for future notice since he thought at first that there wasn't any.

[Crazy Buddhist]

evga x58 sli le, i am thinking about calling geek squad, this is over my head and no one can tell me what the problem is, it is all very unmotivating

How did I guess it was the EVGA? lol

It's probably the EVGA x58 Mobo being dead doing this .. looking around there are stories of people RMA'ing two before they get a working machine but as it is your first build it would be best to be sure of that before doing anything.

Do you know anyone on the ground who can check it out with you? Otherwise phone EVGA tech support as I propsed before and ask them what those post codes mean. They might not be in the manual because they mean "Send me home".

CB

[l7.64ss]

lol ok i will call them thx for all the advise guys, "note to self always have paste" haha btw what does rma'ing mean?

[l7.64ss]

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i PUT THE RAM IN A DIF SLOT AND IT WORKED!!!!!!!!!! evga labeled them wrong well thx for all the help evry1

[x88x]

RMA: Return Merchandise Authorization. It's when you send a product back to the manufacturer for a replacement....which reminds me, I've had three HDDs sitting around waiting to be mailed for a few months now... *runs off to mail them*

[nevermind1534]

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! U PUT THE RAM IN A DIF SLOT AND IT WORKED!!!!!!!!!! evga labeled them wrong well thx for all the help evry1

Glad to hear you got it working.

[Drum Thumper]

Good to hear this is working. I chuckled at your post where you said you were going to take it to Geek Squad. You build your own systems, you could probably teach them a thing or two.

Geek Squad = idiocy most of the time. Actually, I feel sorry for the lot of them.

[1RealTruth]

Some of the new CPUs and Processors do NOT need paste. They have a silver heat transfer pad mounted on the heat sink from the manufacturer. It might be a heat problem but nothing related to the thermal paste.

It could be your power supply is going bad. 80% of all computer hardware problems happen in the first month of use. My Wife's computer is having that same problem, it's a capacitor issue with her motherboard. If you got the computer locally, take it back to the store. If you ordered it, they should have tested the parts. There might be a hardware diagnostics program on the driver CD, you can try that. It might give you some insite.

[billygoat333]

Some of the new CPUs and Processors do NOT need paste. They have a silver heat transfer pad mounted on the heat sink from the manufacturer. It might be a heat problem but nothing related to the thermal paste.

It could be your power supply is going bad. 80% of all computer hardware problems happen in the first month of use. My Wife's computer is having that same problem, it's a capacitor issue with her motherboard. If you got the computer locally, take it back to the store. If you ordered it, they should have tested the parts. There might be a hardware diagnostics program on the driver CD, you can try that. It might give you some insite.

old thread, and he got it working, if you would have read the whole thread.

*pulls out zombie thread shotgun*