Having 3 ram chips with 1 gig, 512, and 512 will not always register well with the mb. Depending on how old your motherboard is, you may be able to get the system running with 2 gigs.. but more than...

hmm.. first of all, it's never a good idea to install different ram like that..

Reset to optimized defaults? Have you gone back through the bios to see what has changed? Go through and make sure...

What exactly happens? Does every component receive power for a brief moment, and then just shut off? Or is it just the psu fan? Have you made sure that the components are installed properly, and that...

Did that work?

oh yea, thats probly the problem. Try to straighten those as best you can..

Hmm.. well you can't simply throw old and new parts to gether and have a computer. You've got to make sure everything is compatible.. processor, ram, video card, etc.

Check your motherboard guide...

whoa thats rather strange. Did you spill anything on the laptop? Food, drinks, anything at all that may have damaged it? You say that the fans don't even come on? Can you hear anything normal turn on...

Does it do nothing at all when you attempt to turn it on? No fans, lights, etc.?

Make sure the power button plugs are connected properly on the motherboard. You say that the green mb led is on?...

hah.. If you can smell it coming from your psu, then it's probably not a vga or mb problem. However, faulty psu can destroy your mb. I recommend that you buy a new psu.

yea.. I was about to ask if you tracked the problem solely to the hd. Are your hd sata? I would check to make sure the hd are connected properly.. try a hd that you know to be working

you have not told us what happened. Only that you "know" it is a motherboard problem. The only advise anyone can give to you is to go and buy another motherboard.

or avast, I personally think avast is the best virus protection software.

hah.. what did you do to "try.. to fix it"? Norton is a piece of junk, I wouldnt install it on any computer. I've never heard of spyware007.spy... The computer turns on and then off in 5 seconds?...

yea, we need more information about the problem.. what specifically happens?

hah, although we wish to immediately blame microsoft when there is a problem (it is their fault a lot of the time), I also think it is a hardware problem. Do what belikemike suggested. Also be sure...

hah true that.. thanks for all your help

I know, I guess I will buy a 500-600 Watt psu.. I kinda wanted to wait and see If I could figure out why my current psu is having trouble with my hd

you're not overclocking ur cpu, right? Once again, be sure the graphics card is in completely. The pci express cards can sometimes be difficult to seat...

the only reason a computr cant make it...

ok.. the psu came in, and when I plugged it into the hd and mb.. it worked!!! So I have no clue wut the hell the problem is.. My old psu seems to just be having problems with my hd b/c it works fine...

the problem persisted after you put the old graphics card in? Make sure the graphics cards are completely in their slots. What kind of graphics cards are you using? agp? pci?

the new psu has not come in yet... but, I do not think i am overloading my current power supply, I unplugged everything except mb and my hd, and I still get the same problem.

I think what dcc said...

Alright, Today I had more time, and I was able to do some more indepth troubleshooting... I took everything apart, and put it back together one piece at a time, and found out that the problem only...

i have one coming in the mail from newegg.. should arrive soon

I built the computer that I am currently using last year, it is an asus A8n5x mb w/ amd 3200+ processor and 1 gig of ram.. its a great build, has never given me trouble before..

however, in the...