Here's the trick.
Place the power supply and just the motherboard on a chunk of cardboard. If it can't properly power up and down, then you are looking at the two possibly bad parts.
YOU get to call the vendor of each to exchange.
That's just the motherboard without any RAM, CPU, etc. And the PSU.
If it works, you build up till you find the bad part.
Bob
I just put together a new gaming rig Monday night (specs below) and when I went to power it up, the PSU lights flashed, the fans spun a little, and then the thing shut off. The power indicator (green light) on the motherboard stays on after this, but I have to completely shut off the PSU to try again (always with the same results). I'd hate to think it was a bad Mobo or PSU, but the connections all look good to me (I've tried starting it with all the PCI/AGP/drives disconnected and it didn't make a difference). Can anyone suggest a different possibility/solution?
Specs
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P4 3.0E w/HT
ASUS P4C800-E Mobo
1GB Kingston PC3200 DDR
Aspire 520W PSU
Seagate 80GB SATA HD
Lite-on DVD+/-RW
Lian-Li PC-6077 Case
Albatron GeForce 6800GT
SB Audigy ZS 7.1

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