M2N SLi Deluxe wont boot

I have a problem with my newly assembled PC.

Problem is it will not boot, when I turn on the computer it starts up but shuts down immediately. First I thought it was the PSU (Antec Phantom 500) I had it replaced but the same still happened. I tried disconnecting everything, only power, mem and CPU, would not boot. At last I clearing BIOS, and that helped, but next day when the computer had been turned of for the night, it would not boot.

Yesterday just before shutting it down in Windows I started getting these program failures, e.g. starting FireFox it would do an unhandled exception or something, had similiar problems after installation of WinXP, so I had to install like 3 times, but I do not know if that has something to do with the actual boot problem.

My setup:
M2N SLi Deluxe
AMD AM2 4200+ X2
2xKingston value RAM DDR-II
2xSamsung Spinpoint 160 Gb RAID
ASUS GeForce 7600GT Silent
Antec Phantom 500 PSU
Leadteak/ASUS DVD Drive
3½ Floppy
Zalman CPU cooler
Antec P180 enclosure

 

Deja vu!!!!

I have the same system board 2GB XMS2 DDR2 800 4-4-4-12 RAM
P180 case
Phantom 500 PS
NVidia 6800GT Xtreme 512MB video
I have a few more drives
4 x 300GB (would like in a raid 5)
2 x 160GB (would also like these in raid 0)
3 Hauppauge 500MCE tuner cards
and I built the darn machine tonight
Turn it on
and NADA!

starts, shuts off, starts shuts off!!!!
I will have to get small pliers to reset the CMOS have a lot crammed into this thing.

If you have resolved the issue please tell me what it was so I can get up and running ASAP, I am going to call ASUS tomorrow

Very tired,
Nick

 

Resolved some of the issues

I updated the BIOS and that helped to the "will not start" problem, I however still get all kinds of weird errors in WinXP but I think Ill have to disable my RAID and resintall to verify whether it is the RAID, weird enought when winxp fails to load because it cannot find any of the programs it need, i run a chkdsk /f scheduled for next reboot, I reboot and it usaully helps...

 

Memory issues.

http://www.houseofhelp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=52688

This is what I found at Corsair which is my memory manufaturer I am trying this now. I need to get the bios update and try that.

 

Ah, I'm having the same shutting down on startup problem and I have that Corsair RAM too. I'm running the NVIDIA GX2 Dual-SLI card so I have a 700w PSU. I thought it was the PSU since it's a brand I heard wasn't great (OCZ).

I'll try clearning the BIOS and see if it solves my restarting problem today. I'm glad you posted the Corsair link so I can look forward to dealing with that after I get it to boot (hopefully)
I also found this thread: http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx...1&model=M2N-SLI+Deluxe&page=1&SLanguage=en-us

 

I realise that this topic is somewhat old, however I've been having similar issues with my Asus m2n SLI Deluxe; the boot up, and then shutting down as well as Windows loading but only displaying my desktop background and nothing else.

Would the latter be a motherboard issue, or is it related to my hard drive?

Specs:
Nvidia Ge Force 7950
AMD X2 dual core processor
320 gig Seagate HD

 

No one has posted a solution here?

What BIOS version is stable & working well? I just tried to update to 1502 (the latest stable version ) and now experiencing this problem.

I'm confident everything is okay except for the BIOS as I've been using this PC for two years prior to this update. So much for a simple re-install using a single drive for program installations. I tried to update the BIOS as the motherboard CD was not recognising the hardware and I did not know which driver was required for LAN, Audio etc.