New PC not booting

[Kedash00]

Ok before i begin i just wanna say i'm not at the pc at the moment, i got aggravated and went to my brother's house to drink my sorrows away. I know i know i have a rough life lol.
Anyways listed below are the parts i ordered from newegg and got them in today and put everything together and the problem is...
When i press the power button the pc tries to boot for a split second and then shuts back off. Fans start to spin for a second and lights come on for a second and then everything shuts down.
I've stripped the pc down to bare minimum parts, using on board everything, video/sound/networking.
I took out every stick of RAM and replaced it with other sticks that were ordered, tried all 6 of them.
I took off the CPU fan and added a little more thermal grease.
I removed the Nvidia video card and used on board.
Still the same issue, when i press the power button it tries to boot and then shuts itself off.
I have to click the switch or unplug the power supply to try to power it on again, if i press the power or reset button without unplugging/switch then it does nothing.

One thing to note, on the motherboard there are a little yellow and green light that come on northeast of the chip. I looked that up and it seems i'll need to check some settings for the DRAM in the bios if i can even get to the bios.

That's about is, sorry for the long read, and as always, any help is very much appreciated.

This is the list of parts I ordered:
Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
Link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128423
Processor: Intel Core i7-950 Bloomfield 3.06GHz 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor BX80601950
Link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115211
RAM: Kingston HyperX 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model KHX1600C9D3K2/8GX (got 24 gigs of this, 6 sticks)
Link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820104173
Video Card: MSI N570GTX-M2D12D5 GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
Link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814127552
Power Supply: CORSAIR CMPSU-850TX 850W ATX12V 2.2 / EPS12V 2.91 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready Active PFC Power Supply
Link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817139009

Only think i haven't done, is bought a extra CPU fan and put it on so i guess i could try the stock one, but that shouldn't make a difference i wouldn't think. It's connected properly.
And i guess i could try another power supply just to make sure that's not it when i get back home, but it tries to boot up so it seems like its getting power.

Again, any suggestions and or feedback is very welcome.
And thanks so much in advance.

Kedash

[Sajuuk]

Wrong RAM slot perhaps? I had this happen to me on my i7 build. Try taking EVERYTHING (even the ram) out and just leave the CPU in. See if it does some post error beeps.

I don't see any onboard video on that motherboard. Oh well.

Did it come with a speaker to plug into it? (It goes (at least it did with my P6T) alongside the pins you plug your start button/led lights). It might not have a built in speaker, so...check.

Kinda hard to listen to POST beeps when there's no speaker.

[Kedash00]

It did come with a speaker but i didn't even think to hook it up and listen to the post beeps.
As far as the onboard video, i just unplugged the nvidia card but didn't hook up a monitor to anything, but it should still try to boot even without some sort of video plugged in.
I'll hook up the speaker when i get back home and post back the results.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Clear the Bios.

And as stated start up with only the cpu in and see if any error beeps/

Make sure your fan is pluged into the fan1 or whatever slot. Fast turn offs like that mean that the computer thinks there is no fan on the cpu.

Also if you use a fan that has low rpms it might think the fan is not working right.

[mikekim]

I had exactly the same problem with the same model of motherboard.

check the cpu socket for bent pins - use a magnifying glass if possible.

the easiest way to check is to look the underside of the cpu, there should be a small indent on roughly the centre of each pad, any pins not making contact will not have marked the chip pad.

if you have got a bent pin problem, (my mobo had entire rows wrong) then you have to fix it yourself, as bent pins are not covered under any warranty or RMA policy

In the end i purchased an Asus Ramapage III Extreme, cured the problem straight away

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I just went through this with an Asus Sabertooth X58 motherboard. Both CPU and RAM LEDs were indicating errors with brand new hardware. Went and got an EVGA X58 board and the exact same hardware is rock solid.

Ditto on the bent pins thing. Read the Newegg/amazon reviews on any mobo you buy and watch the lowest ratings for common stories like that. If I'd have done my research on the Sabertooth, I'd not have touched it with a 10 foot pole.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Make sure your fan is pluged into the fan1 or whatever slot. Fast turn offs like that mean that the computer thinks there is no fan on the cpu.

Also if you use a fan that has low rpms it might think the fan is not working right.

Fans are one of many culprits.

Better yet, just get a motherboard that has a diagnostics readout on it (like the Intel extreme or EVGA motherboards) and it will tell you exactly what it thinks is wrong.

[MiRai]

A little bird once told me that some motherboards can be picky about the voltage of the RAM modules. If, as a last resort, try
throwing some RAM in there that operates at 1.5v instead of what you've got.

[jstanthr]

The biggest thing that jumps out at me is that you have the wrong memory. The X58 is TRI channel, you ordered a Dual chan kit. On all gigabyte boards to use dual you have to boot with tri chan and change it in the bios as they removed the jumper for this about 2 revisions after the board was released

[MiRai]

The biggest thing that jumps out at me is that you have the wrong memory. The X58 is TRI channel, you ordered a Dual chan kit. On all gigabyte boards to use dual you have to boot with tri chan and change it in the bios as they removed the jumper for this about 2 revisions after the board was released

Wow good call.... totally missed that.

Very curious as to why the OP purchased 3 dual channel kits instead of 2 triple channel kits?

He should still be able to test with just 1 or 2 modules though and it should still boot, given that Gigabyte's board is not
super fussy about DIMM slots.