new pc probs

[guy101]

hey guys i just went out and brought a new pc 2day, the specr as as follows:
MoBo - Abit NF7-M
CPU - Athlon XP 2000+
MEM - 256mb KINGSTON DDR pc-2700
HARD DRIVE - 40gb IBM DESKSTAR 7200rpm
DVD-r - Pioneer DVD-RW

ive set it all up and everything looks fine. When i am installing windows XP home, its on the first blue screen and when it says "starting windows", the whole pc turns off...
any of u guys know whats wrong with it??

 

[zerozero]

Try it with a barebone system (1 stick of RAM, 1 HDD, 1 CD) and see if it does it again. If it doesn't then plug in the rest of your equipment one at a time.
This may be caused by bad memory, hardware, PS. etc...
Make sure all your fans are up and running on startup.

 

[guy101]

it only does have the bare essentials plugged in, motherboard, cpu, 1 hdd, 1 cd, 1 stick of mem.

when it shuts down it makes an alarm sounding..
im totally clueless about it, should i try my other pcs mem, cpu one at a time in the new pc?

 

[Icedragon]

OK DDR memory has to be installed with 2 sticks in the same tandom, I had that problem once, I had one stick of DDR and i got the same shit as you and then someone turned me on that I needed 2 sticks of DDR to run and it worked fine ever since. So just buy another stick of DDR and you should be good to go.

 

[guy101]

well i took everything apart, and replaced each part one by one in my working pc, to try and find the cause.
I have decided that the motherboard was shorting out somehow, so after putting everything back in place it is working fine. i dnt understand what you are talking about, needing 2 sticks of mem??? coz it is working fine with 1 :S

 

[zerozero]

It probably was something not seated properly. Glad you fixed it.