this is going to be long, but i will explain in detail and try to include everything. please bear with me.
i read other posts on here before doing this, so basically i'm out of answers. press power and all LED's, fans, etc. flicker for a split second. there are 2 LED's, green and yellow/orange, next to the DIMM slots that stay on and a red one by the CMOS battery that will flicker on and off. i have cleared the CMOS several times, unplugged everything, tried just one memory stick, had the board on my desk out of the case and checked for bent pins. i'm lost and have no more ideas what could be causing this.
it ran fine the other night. i bought the board, CPU and memory from a good friend. he ran it for a year with the easytune 6 overclock in it with out a problem(overclock was 3.36Ghz). he walked me through how to put the overclock back in using the easytune software. loaded it, went to tuner, clicked the red stage 3 and rebooted. worked fine all night, the whole family used it. my fiance turned it on tuesday afternoon and it kept turning on and off, the whole case, fans and all. i told her to hold the power button till it shut down. didn't work. had her shutoff the surge bar. i got home from work turned it on and it did the same thing. shut it down, shut off the power supply and unplugged it. pressed the clear CMOS button on the back of the mother board and its been doing this flicker thing ever since. i tried removing the battery, shorting the jumper pins and everything mentioned above and nothing has worked yet. whats your thoughts?
it is a new build with some parts new and some used:
new parts:
cooler master HAF 922 case
Antec High Current Gamer Series HCG-900 900W Power Supply (
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371050)
asus cd/dvd drive
used parts:
GA-EX58-UD5 gigabyte motherboard
i7-930 intel CPU
12 GB (3 X 4GB) Gskill ripjaw memory (
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231358)
XFX 6970 video card
western digital 1TB black 7200 rpm 64 mb cache HDD (i bought this new last year and used from my last computer)
this all worked fine till tuesday. had about 3 maybe 4 days on the build. did have one problem in the beginning i forgot to mention. one stick of memory went bad. so i'm down to 8 GB in dual channel mode instead of 12 in 3 channel mode. it ran fine with the 8. please help! a huge thanks ahead of time to anyone that replies!!!