Problems with booting

[stevo909]

Ok heres the scoop: my buddy just ordered a new set of components and we spent today putting it all together. here they are:

 

AMD Athlon 64 2800

DFI 250G UT Nforce 3

512 Mb PC3200 Ultra name brand

BFG 6600GT

basic case with 425W PS

120Gb HD

LG DVD Burner

 

 

So we get everything installed and put together fine then when i go to boot, the Red LED's come on, but when i turn it on, one steady beep for POST. It beeps for about 1.5 seconds then waits 5 then beeps again. Please help me troubleshoot.

The BFG came defective, so we grabbed his old Ti4200, and stuck it in so i know it cant be the VC. Tomorrow im gonna try my RAM in his comp and see if that works at all. I tryed his in slot 1 and 3....ill try slot 2 tomorrow. Could it be defective memory slots...if its not his memory?

any tips please post and help me out

 

Steveo ---

[Sharp]

Hello,

 

What power supply do you have?

[CrowbarHL2]

do you have all power connectors connected to the mother board? sounds like the memory is in the wrong slots, mem could be bad, or try a diff. video card. Also, try reseting the bios by using the jumper on MB. I hope this helps.

[MadChicago]

Sounds like that Ultra memory is not meshing with the system. What are the specs on that memory?? I had this issue with an ASUS A8N-E board and some dimms from Crucial. It turned out that no matter what I did, the board would not POST. I ended up having to get new memory.

 

The board is not posting, correct?