Dave Phillips wrote:
Greetings:
Well, the hardware has been assembled, but I have a show-stopper of a
problem. When I try to start the machine I get a flash from the cool
blue lights on my Antec case, the CPU fan does a little jig, then
nothing. :(
This could easily be th power supply. Do you have another case
handy?
The next thing I would do is to take out every card and
hard drive, and see if the thing beeps. If it does,
add the video card back in (make sure no onboard devices
conflict!), then the first hard drive, and so-on. If you
have no joy, then I say it's power supply, CPU, mother board,
in that order. You will simply have to swap them out to find
out.
Not that I know a damn thing about any of this.
Also, are you sure that your power supply can handle your
setup? Removing the drives might help find out. If you
are drawing too many amps from the power supply, I would
expect the sort of behaviour that you are experiencing.
It seems like 500W is par for the course these days.
Also, don't tell me that you turned the power on EVEN FOR A SECOND
without a greased and powered cpu cooler attached.
Toby
