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to answer some of the new questions and some old
The day went like this
Got up - Switched on PC with all parts in it from yesterday when it worked fine.
Switched on PC - NADA, ZIP, ZILCH, NOT even BIOS
Several hours of scratching head and writing on here.
Removed all components, reseated in the following order
The build as of last night was
1 x SSD - Boot
2 x WD Caviar in Raid
2 x Storage Drives - SATA
1 x Opt Drivce
1 x GTX570 - Main
1 x Gtx9800 - PhysX
4 x 1g or RAm
Today the same build would not boot even though the PC shut down with no apparent issues, much the same as the old board did when it "went"
After several posts and taking in the info i did the following
Unseated ALL parts
Reseated the following
1 x VGA = Brand New GTX570
1 x Ram Dimm
CPU
NOTHING ELSE - Booted to BIOS - NO OS Not present messages for obvious reasons.
Then
Installed 1 x SDD - Boot Drive
Booted to Windows fine
Then
Tried each Ram stick on its own
4 x it booted no problems
Reseated all Ram
Booted no Probs
Added 2nd VGA card - Booted no Probs.
If the orignal build was bad why then did the PC fire up first time and present no issues whatsoever until SP1 was installed and continue working until I shut down as per the start of this post?
I appreciate that It MAY be a hardware issue but giiven I have now tried every permutation of the hardware and it suddely works again is it hard to see why i suspect SP1?
I didnt reseat the cpu as the system booted before I got to this stage and therfore I assume the cpu is not presenting an issue, especially since I installed the same chip into a 2 nd pc and it booted fine with no present issues.