GA-X58A-UD3R won't boot

[Dark Mantis]

I don't recognise the case but that is not important anyway.  The pre-pressed motherboard stands do look to be about the right height off the backplate as far as I can tell.
How many of them are there?

I know you said the system was built for you by PCSpecialist but why do you not get them to sort this problem now?
I mean if you paid them for a working system and it isn't they should sort it out for you. If it required some sort of insulation washers it should have been supplied with the case as per all the other accessories.

[mikeL]

PC Specialist built the original P4D system nearly 5 years ago.
My 'upgrade' is rather extreme.

Anyway I could not find any washers but instead cut double thickness strips of electrical insulation tape over each riser and punched the screws through.
Put everything back together, and it POSTed first time.
So,  I guess those fat stands must have touched something they shouldn't have. Only worry I now have is that the tape can cope with the motherboard temp when OCed. Will have to keep an eye on that.

So, have rather enjoyed going through the BIOS options and am now attempting to instal W7 Pro.
I am trying to do this via a new HDD attached to the 6Gb SATA and there's another bug that apparently can make Win7 install hang this way. We shall see.
So, will monitor it and not RMA just now...

Thanks for all the help so far. Here she is, running.

I don't recognise the case but that is not important anyway.  The pre-pressed motherboard stands do look to be about the right height off the backplate as far as I can tell.
How many of them are there?

I know you said the system was built for you by PCSpecialist but why do you not get them to sort this problem now?
I mean if you paid them for a working system and it isn't they should sort it out for you. If it required some sort of insulation washers it should have been supplied with the case as per all the other accessories.

[Dark Mantis]

Do you still have the old motherboard? If so check on the back of it maybe there are some washers or something glued to the back of it. Failing that you can always buy some fibre washers or even make some out of an old plastic carton of kitchen waste.
All we need now is some sticky back plasic and one I made earlier and we would be set for "Blue Peter"

[mikeL]

No, nothing on the back of the old board.

Coming to you live from the new, very fast and uncannily quiet desktop.

Thanks for all the help. Hopefully it'll be fine from now on in.

cheers
Mike

Do you still have the old motherboard? If so check on the back of it maybe there are some washers or something glued to the back of it. Failing that you can always buy some fibre washers or even make some out of an old plastic carton of kitchen waste.
All we need now is some sticky back plasic and one I made earlier and we would be set for "Blue Peter"

[Dark Mantis]

Yes, basically it was down to the old no name case then. Often these types of problems are the result of bad design in the first place. Still at least we managed to work our way round the problem and it's all running happily now.

[Lsdmeasap]

Nice to hear you got this sorted out, and it was only a simple short that didn't cause any damage!