Problems w/ a friends build

[roguerower]

A friend of mine bought an assortment of parts off of Newegg and then put it together. I came back yesterday and he asked me for some help b/c he was having problems. I opened up the box and saw a bundle of wires so I spent about 30min doing some cable rearrangment. I then hooked it up to a monitor and a keyboard (PS-2). It will post sometimes, and other times it wont. When it does post, it will freeze after detecting the CPU. Sometimes it will also detect the memory but then it will freeze as well. Any ideas?

Parts:
PSU

CPU

Mobo

Video

Memory

HDD

 

[Title]

Just a guess, but it may be the ram. Have you tried giving them more voltage? Sometimes the default 1.8V is not enough.

 

[roguerower]

I would, but I can't even seem to get to the bios in order to up the voltage. It freezes either right after detecting the CPU or the RAM. Sometimes it will post all the way through and then all i get is a blinking cursor.

 

[Roguestar]

Could be overheating straight away, try reseating the HSF. Try making sure you've put all the power connectors back in right. Try taking the BIOS battery out for a while and shorting the jumpers to clear the CMOS.