MSI P55-GD65 Won't Boot

[ShadeOfGrey]

I setup my new i5 750, MSI P55-GD65, OCZ Gold 1600, and 4890 today. Went to power it up and smelled plastic. Shutdown immediately, removed all components except cpu and 1 stick of ram. Started back up and all I got was the phase lights blinked on, cpu fan started, then all shut off again. This kept looping until I killed power again. I tried the ram stick in all four slots, same thing.

RMA time?

[Leeghoofd]

Tried reseating the CPU ? Where does it smell burned ? CPU fan properly connected ?

[ShadeOfGrey]

Tried reseating the CPU ? Where does it smell burned ? CPU fan properly connected ?

Yup, tried reseating cpu, memory, and graphics card. No luck.

The smell seemed to be coming from the memory slots. Also, when I took out the dimms, I could smell the same scent off the memory.

Yes, the cpu fan was plugged in and spinning for the half second it was on.

[Chri$ch]

memory in the right (black) slots?

[ShadeOfGrey]

memory in the right (black) slots?

Yup, also tried blue slots, just in case

[Humminn55]

Maybe this article at AT will help.....

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3661

[ShadeOfGrey]

Maybe this article at AT will help.....

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3661

Interesting article; however, I don't think it applies because my system wasn't even capable of booting to overclock. Also, I checked the 750 for contact marks and the pins on the motherboard for bent ones and both seemed fine. Either way, I decided to RMA and try again with new components.

Thanks for all your help XS.