[Kroc]

Hi guys,

I bought all the components for a gaming rig I'd been planning to build for a while yesterday, and painstakingly put all the parts together (it was my first time building). Anyway, I finished connecting everything and turned it on, only to find that when I got to the Gigabyte boot screen, I couldn't do anything because it wasn't recognising my wireless USB keyboard. So I unplugged that one, plugged in an old PS2 keyboard, restarted and tried again. Same deal.
What's stranger, though, is that sometimes the computer will either not boot up at all (the lights come on, but nobody's home. In most cases this would result in everything lighting up, and the fans coming on, but then after about fifteen seconds the fans go off again), or it will come on and the fans will go absolutely spastic until I pressed the power button again. I'm really not sure what this could be. My money is on human error, considering it's my first build, though I'm not sure what I did wrong, because naturally I haven't got any experience here.

I'm about to go down to Dick Smith's to buy a crappy (but newer) corded USB keyboard to see if it might be a keyboard issue after all. The PS2 keyboard I have is ancient, and the wireless USB keyboard probably needs installation.

Any advice that might help me get my PC running would be very much appreciated!

Thanks.

[sentril]

Sounds to me like you have to take it apart and put it back together again. Make sure you have enough thermal paste on your processor/heatsink. Doublecheck your cables and make sure they are in the right spot.

[Carbon]

When the fans spin up and spool down, do you have video? I'd bet on overheating as well, though.