[SLL] OT--Hardware: New Build Won't go to POST

[Abha Harting]

I have been away from building for a long time. My last one was about Jan
2006 and it was a nice (and still runing great) single core Athlon 64 3700+.
I haven't been paying as much attention to hardware since I broke my leg
about a year ago--it really slowed me down for some time. I have built a lot
of systems but just not recently. I have some experience with this, but I am
SURE someone out there has more than I do.

Anyway, I am building this machine for a friend. It is an Intel machine--the
first intel I have built. ALL the others were Athlons.  My friends wanted a
HOT ONE, so there is a lot of dough in these parts. I got an Asus P5B Plus
mobo, and an Intel  Quad  core  CPU (CPU INTEL|C2Q Q6600 2.40G 775 8M R) and
Crucial DDRam. It also has a 256mg PCI Express Video card.

I decided to test it out on the table first before I put it in the case--*it
is just easier that way and saves a lot of headaches. *

When I gap the power switch, The fans on the CPU and the vga card go for
just a puff of time and then *nada*. They don't STAY running. The PSU is a
new Thermaltake 500watts--is that good enough?  In the recent past, you
didn't need drives hooked up to the board to pull enough power to get it to
post. Are we going retro on that? Do you have to put drives on this baby to
get it to pull the juice enough to boot as you did in the "long ago" past??
Things are changing all the time, so what you knew with certainty yesterday
may not be true at all today.

I was bad on this. I waited too long to get it going and I only have a week
now to trade off the parts before the *long* RMA to the manufacturer.
Bad...bad...bad!!!

Anyway...any help greatly appreciated!

Abha