someone please help--- 911!!!

help please !!! New build - no post when power up. I get PSU going, all fans going, can hear my sata hdd goign, my dvd drive the light on front just slowly flashes and the drawer won't open.....help please.
I am using a pentium D dual processor on a P5wd2 Mobo by asus, corsair memory 2x1gb in channel a1 and a2.....my sata drive has the molex going to if for power and then a red sata cable and another similar looking black tipped cable that has 3 wires out of it. My dvd is attached to the ide cable and then to the primary ide slot on mobo.
all mobo power connections ar ehooked up properly to psu....what could this be??
Do you think i got bad processor or the contacts got messed up or is it something else??
HELP!!

Are your jumper settings set to the right spec's on ther motherboard??

which jumpers do you mean - the only jumpers i see are the chassis intrusion ones and one that will reset th CLRTC ram - whichis in normal position

Check that everything is firmly seated, cables, cards, RAM, etc., especially the graphics card. If that doesn't help, disconnect everything except the CPU, RAM and graphics card, and try to boot the PC. If it's still no go, take the mobo out of the case and lay it on some insulating material to make sure that it can't be shorting on anything.

Check PSU voltage output at ALL connector ends, output values should be right on the PSU.

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another similar looking black tipped cable that has 3 wires out of it

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What is this third (3rd) wire you are talking about? SATA installation should only have two connectors. The power and the SATA cable to the motherboard.

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Photolady beat me to it. :D A lot of earlier SATA HDDs had both the new SATA and standard Molex power connectors so they'd be able to be used on mobos without SATA capability, if a SATA controller was added. You're only supposed to use one power connector or the other--not both.

And you should be aware too, that connecting two power connections to your drive, could render them useless. Sometimes it doesn't blow the drive, then other times it does.

I had a computer in my shop that came to me all misconfigured. Two power adapters, heatsinkfan loose, and no extra molex connected to motherboard. Luckily for this client, the drives were ok. I'd hate to think you spent so much money on these systems to lose the harddrives.

His system cost him $2000.

i know it sounds crazzy but some asus mobos have been known to have the plastic shielding on the ide bus conecters the wrong way round so you pop your cable in and end up pushing a pin out the mobo i would defuinatly check that as well.

thanks for all the input everyone....ya know what i ended up doing? Returning the mobo and getting new one and everything is fine now. I am up and running....
The odd thing was (and i don't know if this was even a problem or not) but the socket on the mobo was a little tiny bit disfigured, it was slightly concave on one side/edge and the new one is not that way.
Could that have been an issue ...or not?

Which socket? The cpu or other?

the cpu socket

Yes, that could have been the problem. I've seen this problem before and caused the same issues you had.