GAH! i hate hardware, why can't it just fecking work

so i gets all the bits for my new PC, spend a few hours fitting them all. turned the thing on, lights come on, fans start up, system shuts down, system starts up, lights come on, fans come on, system shuts down and repeat

fecking piece of crap wont even get to BIOS

thinking its possibly a crap PSU at the mo, though the RAM could be dodgy but i don't think its getting to the RAM

so at the mo i have a very expensive pile of metal and wires just sitting on the floor doing nothing

guess i'm gonna have to go buy a new PSU and possibly RAM to work out whats wrong

damn this new fangled crap, if this was the same as my other PC i could swap bits around without spending a fortune getting spares - but then i guess if it was the same as my current PC i wouldn't have bought it

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