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Building a new system... ran into a problem

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Isocene

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I put my motherboard, hd, cdrom and floppy in the case. I hooked everything up to the power supply. When I plug it and and flip the switch, a green light on the motherboard lights up. When I try to push power on the case nothing happens. I put the connection to the switch in the place where its supposed to be on the motherboard and nothing happened. Then I put it in every spot and tried it and still no luck.

Some of the connections that goto the motherboard dont seem like they fit. Like the power led has 3 holes but the motherboard looks like each slot only is made for 2 holed ones.

Anyone have any advice?


Mike
 
Be more specific about your hardware. What brands and models of hardware are you running? It is most likely some kind of compatibility problem.
 
Sorry about that.


ASUS A7N266-VM
Athlon XP 1700
Maxtor 40 gb
Crucial 256 2100 DDR ram
Sony floppy
Sony DVD ROM

I have on idea what kind of case it is. I bought it at Frys, it was pretty expensive. It was the display model. It had a window on it and a 420 watt power supply. The box says Turbocase and Turbo Gamer.
 
The mobo could be grounding out. Remove it from the case and use Power / Board / Chip / RAM and see if you get fans. If you do, add the video and go from there.

DC.
 
Originally posted by: Isocene
Sorry about that.




I have on idea what kind of case it is. I bought it at Frys, it was pretty expensive. It was the display model. It had a window on it and a 420 watt power supply. The box says Turbocase and Turbo Gamer.
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You have a Chieftec/Chenming made case rebadged as an Aspire case

http://www.aspireusa.net/frame.htm

Same thing as the popular Antec 1030 but with a 420w PS (Antec 1040 I suppose). Additionally, there's been some discussion about the PS included in the Aspire Turbo Gamer. Some people have concluded that it's the same unit as an Antec pp412x PS (which all seem to be made by ChannelWell) in which if that's the case then you got one heck of a deal. Good choice.

I'm looking at the aluminum version myself. Very nice.
 
Make sure the clear cmos jumper isn't set wrong.
Looking at the board with the cmos battery in the upper right and the place where all the led and power sw go in the lower right. The power switch goes in the lower row 11111+-111. 4th and 5th from the right
 
Thanks for your advice!

Viper was right. I had had the connections going vertically instead of horizontally.

Its installing now!

I really appreciate the help!


Mike
 
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