New Computer Wont Boot

[Danny_c]

I just finished assembling my computer. I went to go boot it up and it turns on fine. I get a screen that flashes for a sec and says Platinum(my motherboard version) than it goes to a black screen that says Nvidia copyright 2002 and below that is a _ that flashes. I dont see it loading the bios. What could be the problem. Ive check for loose connections and tried removing the HD cable to keep it to bare minimum. Any suggestions? Is the CPU fried? is the board messed?

I have a

MSI K9N Platium AMD with Nvidia nforce Board
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200
Corsair DDR2 1gig
Sapphire ATI Radeon X1600
160gig HD

Thats all i have hooked up at this moment. Thanks In advance for all the help

 

[Rik]

Sounds like its trying to look for a boot drive, have you tried putting your windows cd in it?

 

[Tedster]

reset your CMOS and retry.
Is your video card aux power plugged in?
If you can get into BIOS by holding DEL, then the motherboard should be ok.

 

[Danny_c]

How do i reset my cmos? Im going to go try these out right now. Thanks

 

[nickslick74]

Take out the CMOS battery for while (5-10 minutes). This should clear your CMOS.

 

[Samstoned]

don't remove battery just yet Hello!
do what tedster says reset the cmos jumper first

if more than 1 stick o' memory remove all but 1 before reset
check make sure the psu is big nuff
new systems at least 550 watt real amps
if more than 1 hdd remove all but main OS
on boot hit del key till you get to bios
disable boot stop on errors lok round you will find it

give yell back

good luck