Need some help

[CraKaJaX]

I just got my XP-120 and alot of cable management items in the mail this morning, I've been working on it for about 4 hours and just got done. I hooked everything back up, and pressed the powr button. I had my case open to see if all of the fans and everything worked, but when I pressed the button... the front power LED and HDD LED came on for about a second then everything shut off. I tried pressing it again and it doesn't boot. What's the matter? I Checked all of the connects pretty carefully.... I can't think of anything else. What could be wrong?

 

[CraKaJaX]

btw, I can supply any kind of pics you want if necessary.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Either the mobo, power-supply or even both -- in my opinion -- but don't take that as the last word.

It happened to me -- luckily with an old Intel Tucson mobo that about six years of use, and an Enermax PSU that had maybe three. Since the Tucson was a 200 Mhz Pentium MMX, I had a Pentium Pro 200 that used the same memory and I just replaced both. I was in a hurry, but I don't even remember if I tried the PSU on another system, or just put it in the "junk-to-trade-for-other-cyber-junk" pile.

 

[CraKaJaX]

Well both of them worked this morning.. maybe I'll take out the mobo and rewire everytihng and see if it works then, I don't know what the hell could of happened when I was doing it.

 

[suszterpatt]

How did you clean off the old therml grease, and what did you apply? Perhaps you acidentally contaminated your mobo with something that damaged it or caused a short.

 

[CraKaJaX]

Well I just took out the mobo and redid most of it, now it works. Going to clean everything up and the pics will be up shortly, thanks guys.