Now it keeps doing the 'fan start for a few seconds and then stops...." thing and won't keep running. I doubt this is it, but do you think the power supply is not big enough? I have a 400W in it.
400w is more than adequate unless its a gaming rig (overclocked?) or if you have a crazy amount of hardware in the case.
Was this system running at some point in the past? Or is it new? I've also experienced what Schido mentioned with the motherboard being listed as compatible with the processor but the firmware it shipped with didn't. I too had to buy a cheap £30 processor to boot the pc and upgrade the firmware before swapping it over to the new processor.
If all else fails I'd go on eBay (or phone a friend) and find the cheapest earliest cpu the board supports and see what happens. Could be as simple as a firmware update.
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