The Sonata front panel

[rseiler]

My system is an Antec Sonata and Intel 865GBF.

I hadn't used the front panel plugs in almost a year, but I decided to use it today. I plugged my headphones into the PINK jack (which only later I realized is for a MIC), and the system instantly powered off. I realize now I should have used the GREEN jack, but I didn't have the color codes memorized, and I thought it was the one on the left. It wasn't, but what's to explain what happened?

About a year ago after building the system, I did plug the same headset into the (GREEN) jack, and it worked fine. I'll try experimenting more once I've safely booted out of Windows, but I was hoping in the meantime someone knows what happened or perhaps heard of this before.

Thanks

 

[dc5]

are the audio cables connected to your onboard sound in the right order?

 

[rseiler]

As far as I know, and I did use that jack successfully once before.

 

[mordantmonkey]

that shouldn't make any difference.. i've plugged my headphones into the mic jack by accident several times. actual you can use headphones as a *really* crappy mic, try it. even if the cables where switched to the front of the case then the pink would be for headphones and the green would be the mic wouldn't really matter.

Maybe you inadvertently hit the power or reset switch?

 

[rseiler]

I couldn't have hit the switch, since it's behind the door in the cabinet. And I don't think that power switch even works that fast, since the machine went off instantly. I've never used the front panel power switch, but when in Windows I think it would be a little more graceful than that, like a "soft" switch that perhaps puts the machine to sleep instead. What happened yesterday acted more like I used the "hard" switch on the back of the power supply, which would turn off the machine instantly.

It has to be the wiring. Even though I have an Intel board, I didn't use the standard 10-pin connector attached to the gray wire, instead opting for the individual wires, some of which were a little cryptic. Why? Because one of the pins in that 10-pin connector was intentionally blocked by Antec with a tiny piece of white plastic, thereby making it impossible to mate with my board. I suppose I could try removing that piece of plastic in order to use the 10-pin connector. Think I should?

 

[arcas]

Typically, an ATX PSU will power off suddenly like that if you have a short somewhere. That has happened to me when my fan leads touched while I was trying to crimp on a new connector while the system was running. Recheck your wiring for damage.