new system... did I just kill it?

[Maezr]

Antec Aria
gigabyte ga-k8s760m
Athlon 64 3400+
1 gb Crucial Ram
300GB SATA Maxtor 16MB Cachoe 7200 RPM HD

I installed everything in the case.. took quite a while. I try to boot up for the first time, and there's a problem: the SATA drive isn't being detected (the mb has onboard SATA support).

so I take it apart again and try to see if I did something wrong... I didn't see anything wrong, but I reconnected the SATA stuff just to be sure.

tried to boot up again... nothing. the decorate blue LEDs show for a split second when you first plug it in. the power button does nothing (the cpu fan won't go, the leds won't go on, etc). when I unplug it, I can "hear" it go off (sort of like when you turn a tv off almost).

what happened here? did I kill it? esd? anything I can try..?

argh. I want this thing to work. it's been like four hours now.

 

[Grey]

I would check the grounding. Did you make sure all the motherboard standoffs match? Do you have the system speaker hooked up to hear tones?

 

[Maezr]

I skipped some things that weren't neccesary just because I wanted to get it running (front firewire, front speakers, etc)

should I just unplug everything and redo it all? how would this have happened if I was fixing something not related to any of that, and I didn't touch any of it..?

also:

when I power on, another thing I noticed is this... the fan spins at first. it just seems to have power for a second, then stops.

 

[w00t]

seems to me a psu problem. you say the psu fan spins and it starts to power up than goes off. also when you get it up and running tell me how that hd is.

 

[Maezr]

I meant the cpu/heatskin fan, not the psu fan... I'll check that and post back here