Well it's sad to say but Project spork has developed issues.
It's randomly turning off, any where from 30seconds to 5min of powering up. (not just within attempts to load OS but also when sitting in BIOS)
I've tried different memory (and slots), psu, gpu, out of case, reseated the cooler, removed the retention bracket (ie cooler just standing on top of the cpu which I know did work as I originally tested it this way), repasted and reseated the north bridge cooler.
Something is up, it's ether the cpu or motherboard, I'm leaning towards motherboard atm.
So what's a good cheap am2+ motherboard?
ideally with 4 memory slots
atm this is the best I can find http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Gigab...-SATA-RAID-ATX
or
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Asus-M4A785D-M-PRO
Any other sugestions?