built system but it does nothing when booted

UCBPhantom

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I just built a system with the following specs:

Gigabyte GA-7DX mobo with Athlon XP 2000+.
512 MB (2x256) DDR PC2100 ECC, Registered RAM
PS: Enermax 365P-VE 350W

the rest is pretty much irrelevant to the question.

I press the power button, and nothing happens. None of the fans starts spinning, the only thing I see is a little yellow LED lights up on the motherboard. It's labeled DIMM CONN LED and the manual only says that it's on if there is enough power for the RAM. I have checked all connections (fans, power supply, etc etc etc) *many* times, reseated the memory, tried using just 1 of the RAM sticks, etc. Nothing seems to help. The parts are brand new (won them in the AMD XPP giveaway in santa clara). RAM was bought a few months ago but has never been used.

Please help! I'm freaking out here...would really like to get this thing up and running. Any advice highly appreciated. Thanks.

Vadim
 

bigshooter

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You may have a bad power supply, but make sure that you have the power switch connector connected properly. My roommate did that about 6 hours ago and couldn't figure out why nothing was coming on.
 

UCBPhantom

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i plugged in another power supply and it worked. i bought this PSU from openlinx.com and apparently they are rated *very poorly* for returns. Do you think there's a chance I can call my credit company (Visa) and complain? Is there some sort of protection, if they start wanting to charge me things for sending a replacement?

Thanks,
Vadim