I've just been installing Vista 64 on my two week old new build and part way through when it needed to restart the Post screen stoped just after it picked up the CPU (Q6600 at stock settings). (It did go thorough it after a couple of attempts and power cycling the PSU input but has stopped again.) There is no responce (I don't think it's far enough in for any PS/2 USB stuff to be turned on.) There are no beeps, resetting the Cmos didn't fix the problem, I've pulled the SATA devices as well then the GFX card 8800GT, that at least caused a bleep from the system (so the internal speeker is working). I pulled 3 sticks of ram so far and the system still hangs at the same point. If I swap out that last stick (Right pain as the GFX car has to come out who designed that?) then it dosn't leave much other than the CPU and MB, presumably the latter is more probably the cause? Memory controller from where it is hanging? It's just a shame I don't have any way of testing the GPU and CPU seperatly.
I don't want to be RMAing more than I need.
MB is a
ECS 650i SLIT-A
Ram
DDR2TWINX 4x1GB