Hi guys just brought a full setup secondhand off a guy. I've just purchased a i3 chip as that did not come with it.
Only done a bench test for now with minimal components, Not good news the system powers up all LED's are lit, after 10 seconds the whole mobo just turns off. 2 seconds later boots up again and so forth

Does this mean i have purchased a bad mobo and wasted my cash on the i3

Can anyone recommend anything for me to try ?
Ive only got 2 sticks of ram DDR3 in slot 1 & 3 cpu liquid cooler thats all at the moment.