Help, new mobo/cpu combo won't boot up

Just bought a new mobo/cpu combo + ram, put everything in and it won't boot up help.  By new I mean I got it from fry's just alittle while ago, in boxes + reciept.  Boxes were opened by me the very night I attempted to install them.

Details for the new hardware are as follows
note: I'll skip mentioning the old hardware as those worked fine, except I'll mention the PSU is a Ultra Series 500 Watt ATX Power Supply.  It has a 20/24 Pin Motherbaord connector and works fine with old mobo.

OS: WinXP home

New CPU: Pentium D Processor 805+

New Motherboard: ECS RC410l/800-M

New RAM: Patriot 2 x 1GB DDR2 PC2-5300 667mhz (two "1 Gig" sticks)


*I put in the CPU just like the instructions it came with said
*I put in both sticks of RAM
*I made sure the IDE cables had the red striped end on the correct side (just like how it worked with old mobo, with red stripe closest to PSU connections on drives & red stripe on bottom for the mobo connections)
*Made sure the IDE cable for HDD1 (master) is in IDE slot 1.
*Made sure Cpu's Heatsink Fan Assembley was installed as the supplied instructions said + plugged it in.
*Mobo Jumper settings: CLR_CMOS:Normal (1-2), BIOS_WP: Originaly on disable, now on enable (doesn't work either way)
*PSU using the 24 pin connection to give power to mobo
*Plugged in my IDE cards (1 network card)
*DO NOT HAVE a video card yet (will come next week sometime, but as I will not be gaming till then I wanted to test mobo/cpu combo to make sure I don't need to return them)
*after double checking front panel connections multiple times I put them in before I tried booting up, really wanted to make sure I didn't screw that up
*PSU attached to everything
*Case's speaker not plugged in, could not find where to plug it into (its not AUX_IN is it?)
*plugged in all the stuff into the back (3 usb drive, 1 keyboard, monitor, power, cat5 internet cable).  As I do not have a video card yet I plugged the monitor into the mobo's 15pin VGA

It has not worked.
Pushing power results in PSU/HFA fans beginning to turn on for maybe half a second then turning off.  A half second of power and nothing appears on screen.  One time, it did turn on
I have done everthing I could, tried everything I could think of.  Asked for help where I thought I could and still cannot fix it.  Attempted solutions are as follows.

*Unplugged everything except PSU, HFA, Monitor, Front Panel connectors & Ram.  Didn't help.
*At this point I stopped using both sticks of RAM, as advised, and just used each stick one at a time in one RAM slot then the other but that only worked once.  One time one RAM stick in Ram slot #1 worked and the fan kept running a good minute until I turned it off and then tried both sticks, at that point it didn't work and it would never do that again.  Also nothing appeared on the screen at this point.   I've since tried doing the same thing, try each ram stick in each slot one at a time, but there aren't any results except the half second of power then it dies.

What else can I do?  I can still return it to the store

EVERYTHING AT FRYS IS A REFURB OR RETURNED ITEM

WHY DONT YOU KNOW DAT?

if i were you i would get my money back and shop at a real store.
i can assume you are somewhere on the west coast.
if you are in california or nevada i would suggest going to pc club. they know what the fuck they are doing, plus its a small shop you dont put up with faggots that dont know shit or dont care. www.pcclub.com to find a place near you.

that or get a dell and eat a nigger dick you stupid faggot
SHOPPING AT FRYS HAHAH WHAT A DUMBFUCK

oh and let me guess, you got the weekend cpu/mobo combo for about $129, AM I FUCKING RIGHT

yes.. why do are all combo's like that faulty?  So are any of you actually helpful?

>>4

>>2 >>3 here
because frys is shit thats why
after buying 3 TOTALLY DIFFERENT combos that were on their "weekend sales" and having all three FAIL, and watching friends buy combos that FAILED, it doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure out what the fucks going on.

ever see those boxes with stickers that say REDUCED PRICE on them? that means that item has been returned by someone else. they say they make sure the shit works before putting it back on the shelf, but THATS TOTAL BULLSHIT

i have seen the return process. they look at it, ask you whats wrong, get a managers approval, then box it back up and slap the sticker on it, and have some faggot run it back out to the shelf. THEY DONT EVEN HOOK THE SHIT UP TO SEE IF IT WORKS.

i bought a discounted power supply because it was CHEAPEDED
holy shit i get the motherfucker home and ALL THE SATA POWER PLUGS WERE SNIPPED OFF. AND WHEN I TRIED TO RETURN IT THE FUCKING GUY DARED TO ASK ME WHY I DID THAT SHIT. MOTHERFUCKER IT CAME LIKE THAT WHICH IS WHY IM RETURNED IT YOU ASSHOLE.

anyway, avoid buying actual computer shit at frys. the whole OTHER side of the store is ok. like the dvds, software, tvs, etc. just stay the FUCK away from the ENTIRE computer components section. its a fucking JUNKYARD.

My initial impression is that your CPU is overheating before you even turn it on. If the HSF is placed on it properly and plugged into the mobo correctly, there is no excuse for it shut off again so quickly, if it's doing this, then chances are there is a problem with either the CPU or the MOBO.

I'd give all your old equipment a test run just to make sure something didn't happen to any of it when you were swapping the pieces. If it all booted correctly before, it should all boot correctly again. If it does, then something's wrong with you're new pieces and you need to return them.

It also sounds like Fry's is a bullshit store from what I've heard of it. I'm Canadian and the fact that I've heard that Fry's sucks three times now from three different people including >>2 must say something about the place.

well, except for what people have said so far, what OP is describing sounds like the PSU is not enough, which sounds kinda strange with that power rating.

>>6
zoomj my cpu overheats before I turn it on

>>8
YOU STILL HAVENT RETURNED THAT PIECE OF SHIT YET?
DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND CHOP OFF YOUR OWN DICK YOU FUCKING WEEABOO
BY THE TIME YOU FIGURE OUT THAT NO ONE ON HERE IS GOING TO BE ABLE TO ASSIST YOUR SHRIVELED DICK SELF, YOUR RETURN WINDOW AT FRYS WILL EXPIRE AND YOU WILL BE STUCK WITH A PILE OF JUNK

YOU DUMB MOTHERFUCKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hmm.. I can get it to work now.
I've heard Fry's is pretty good compared to way more mom & pop stores, but whatever.
Thing is getting into the BIOS is no problem but then it asks me to start windows in safe/normal mode or last known good confirmation.  Either choice just causes the pc to reboot and loop itself back to the same question, what else can I try now?

>>10
IS NOT >>1

Actually I am #1..and #4, and #10 but whatever, its not going to matter to me if you believe of not. 
Like both the guys in #/g/ & Fry's suggested, I needed to reinstall windows xp to totally get it to function and quit that loop.  I guess I'm all good now, problem solved.  I want to thank those of you here with actual constructive advice, I appreciate any help I can get, thank you.

>>9
you are a moron

>>8 is obviously not the OP

fail for failure

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