Hi i'm new to the forums. I was wondering if you could help me with a problem i've got with my new Asus P5Q. Its a similar problem to what someone posted a few pages back, but I looked through and there wasn't any solution posted.

I just purchased the mobo along with a Q6600, 4GB PC2-6400C5 G.skill dual channel kit, hd4870, asus dvdrw, corsair HX520W psu. I put everything together in my case along with 2 Hard disks that I got a while back (1 250gig Seagate and a 350gig Western Digital). I turned everything on and all I got was a black screen. So my first thought was that something wasn't connected properly. So I looked and everything was so I used the "clear rtc ram" jumper thats described in the mobo manual. I then plugged everything back in and started up the machine. I got to a screen where it said something about entering setup. So I did and the bios popped up. I then went into the boot menu and changed the boot priority so that the dvd drive would be first. I then hit F10 and the computer restarted, but it came up with a black screen again. So I used the "clear rtc ram" jumper again and started the pc back up again, I again got the same screen saying something about setup and I got back into the bios. I then downloaded the updated 703 bios from the asus website. I then used the EZ flash utility to update the bios. The PC then restarted and came up with a black screen again. So I used the same jumper again and started the pc again. I let it boot up into the windows install that was on the hard disk left over from use with my old PC, started removing drivers, got prompted to restart, so I did and got the same black screen again.

I'm guessing this is a fault with the motherboard? Has anyone else had anything like this happen?

Thanks for any help.