Topic: ??? HELP! ???

[twiggy]

I need help. Just put my system together which consists of a single case with 300w psu, a k7s5a motherboard, a am xp2400 processor, a 64mb mx 440 gfx, 80gb hdd, x52 x34 x52 cd-rw. put procesoor in accthed heat sink (had thermal pad on bottom). accthed heat sink wire to board. inserted hdd and cd-rw to board and powerd them up and attecthed audio wire. attched all power cables to motherbaord. set the power led ect. to the board.

Then the problem attcthed power cable monitor keyboard and mouse. Pressed the power button on front and got well got nothing. nothing happened no fans went the heat sink didnt move no beeps nothing.

Any ideas?

Thanks Mark

[twiggy]

for got to add the memory 512mb of sdram.

Mark

[Serenity]

Damn and I was just about to go into "techie" mode and help you then Twiggy    sheesh another chance slipped through my fingers  

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[Simon]

Well, if it looks like there's no power at all, perhaps the PSU is duff?  Have you got another one you could try?  I take it there's no power light on the motherboard?  Also, try another power lead.  It could be something simple like Serenity (oops!) a fuse gone in the plug.

[Dack]

Worth checking:

1. CMOS jumper set not to clear CMOS mode (as a lot of boards have that set as default).

2. You've put the connector for the power switch  to the correct position on the motherboard jumpers.

[twiggy]

Ok here we go. I turned the power swicth on and seen a blue flash wasnt sure where it was coming form coz the case is a pre-modded one. On closer inspection i found that i had not put the motherboard on any spacers. Yes i no a stupied mistake. could this be the problem? i put it on spacers and tryed to boot it agin but nothing once agian nothing. Nothing wrong with power lead works on my other two computers. So could that mistake cost me? could that of ruined the motherboard? or other components?

Thanks Mark.

[Rodders]

It's not looking good, is it matey.  Recommend you try another motherboard that doesn't directly short-circuit through the highly conductive backboard of the case.  

[Robotochan]

I'm very unfortunate to say but something similar happened to me with the exact same mobo and a 1.3Mhz Duron. I put all the stuff in, pressed the switch it all loaded up fine. Stopped it and tried again and the CPU fan jolted about a cm and died. I took it to my local MOD techy and he decided the mobo was bust as it fried his 2000XP which was VERY pricy then   The instructions that came with the mobo were terrible, I had no idea where each cable went. maybe you should try the Asrock K7VT2, only £29 Exc VAT