I'm back and still having problems with A7N8X

[plumbertom]

Well I returned everything and now I recieved all the new parts.

I put it all together and turned the power switch on in the back of the case. The motherboard led light up to green. Everything looked good so far so I hit the power on button, case fans came on but the cpu fan did not come on. I instantly pulled the plug. I checked the wires they all were hooked up right. (themaltake 9) I had the thermal fan control wired. I decided to just hook it up to continious fan. I turned it on again and same thing. I instatly pulled the plug again. I started checking the wires again giving them the jiggle test and found that the lead from the power supply wasn't clicked all the way on the motherboard, I pushed it on the rest of the way and hit power. The cpu fan started like it should but the computer would only stay on for about 5 seconds and it would shut completely off except for the green led light on the motherboard. The case fans would shut off too.

This is what I have

xp 2800
2 512 of corsair xms 3500
A7N8X deluxe
Enermax 431 power supply
volcano 9 h/s
W/D 40 H/D
Asus 52x cdrom

Any ideas?

thanks

[Nephilim]

Try unplugging everything from the board except the power the ram and the processor (and fans) and try powering it on and see what happens.

[plumbertom]

I figured it out. It wasn't a real smart move I made.

When I sent everything back a couple of weeks ago I got bored and lapped my heatsink. When I installed it I put a copper shim in and with that inplace the cpu made poor contact with the heatsink which caused the auto thermal shut down function to turn the power off. I installed it without the shim and got the bios up. Thank you Asus for the themal pertection or it would have been fried cpu over easy.

[Nephilim]

Whew!

Awesome, I'm glad you're up and running again. The thermal protection on this board is pretty cool stuff. :)