So I got a 2.66 dual core PROCESSOR, and a intel dp35dp motherboard, a 8600gt video card, and a new power supply that I installed yesterday.

When I go to start the computer it runs through the black screen, it seems like it goes pretty fast. Before it is about to go to the windows log on screen it will reboot any ideas?Try resetting your memory. That can cause that to happen. Any blue screens?nope no blue screens, is it possible that my powersupply is not high enough? its a 500w. Ill try the ramram not the answer, i replaced, and bios shows that they are there. I have the harddrive plugged into a ribbon cable that is also going to the cd-rom drive is that ok?Double check all your connections.
Remove the CD drive temporarily if it's the only IDE channel you have ...if not move it to the other IDE channel by itself.

Other causes :
MBoard shorting out...check to see if all standoffs were used.
Thermal Compound...not used or applied improperly...travel to Arctic Silvers site for instructions.
Bad RAM...test with MemTest.
HDD...you cannot simply move a hard drive running any version of Windows later than ME and expect it to boot. The OS is tied to the hardware it was installed on.
Vid card....use the onboard video for now to eliminate the card as a suspect....The processor did not come with any thermal compound, but probably has ( i didnt look) a tape thingy under the heatsink.

I noticed in BIOS that the harddrive was set to "raid" but changing that to ide showed there was no harddrive connected.

I was looking at my cpu temp and it is at about 45 C at idle. in the manual it STATES it should be around 38 C .

Also iam pretty noobish what are the standoffs?Quote from: royalpuma on December 24, 2007, 10:58:56 AM

I have the harddrive plugged into a ribbon cable that is also going to the cd-rom drive is that ok?

The processor did not come with any thermal compound, but probably has ( i didnt look) a tape thingy under the heatsink.