Can't get my P67A-C43 to boot

Hi all,
I just put my new machine together and tried to boot it and the result was that it was powered for about a second and then it shut off, then powered up again for a second and then shut off... And it did so until I switched off the power manually. Sometimes during its power downs it beeped three times and it tried to power up again. While it had power, all four of the CPU power phase LEDs where lit. I also tried to clear the CMOS a couple of times in different ways, but it did not help.
Does anybody have any suggestions what to do or do have to send it back to the store?
My hardware is:
Intel Core i5-3570 3,4 GHz
MSI P67A-C43 (B3)
Chieftec 550W power supply (worked nicely in another setup)
Kingston 4x4GB DDR3 PC3-10600 (tried to remove so i just used one of them)
OCZ SSD 64GB sata3
Different Graphic cards from MSI GTX 680 down to NVIDIAS simplest brands

Quote from: Bernhard on 26-May-12, 22:38:07
Its a pity you didn't ask before buying your components, but that CPU is not supported on the P67 board.
http:// event.msi.com/mb/22nm/
You will have to get a Sandy Bridge CPU or a Ivy bridge supported motherboard. Sorry mate.
Nice
I usually read the fine print in the tech manuals. But this time i just assumed that the store where i bought the stuff would enlighten me. Wont happen again.
And thanks for the quick reply

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(at the moment i am using hibernate, which works but i would prefer restart, because i eperienced some strange things which i could avoid by a clean start up.)

1.) Open Automator (Applications) and choose "Application" on startup.
2.) Find "Run AppleScript" in the list on the left side
3.) Drag & Drop that action to the right side
4.) In the text field of the script insert
do shell script "sudo shutdown -hu now" with administrator privileges
5.) Save that application to your hard drive and you can double click it.
6.) When running that application you have to enter your password, and it will shutdown the mac.
7.) You can hard code your password to the program with
do shell script "sudo shutdown -hu now" with administrator privileges password "yourpassword"
But the password isn't encrypted in the Shell Script!
Be aware: double clicking that application will immediately shut down the computer without asking for saving changed files - they'll be lost!

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