Dave, I had this exact trouble moving an old computer into the same model case last week. What I found: There's the big power connection to the motherboard that we're all familiar with. The motherboard I have has two additional 12V sockets - one that's square-shaped and one that's the same format as drives use. I plugged in both and had the same results as you - perhaps with more fear, as I thought that flash was something blowing (having no clue that the case has LEDs. :) I unplugged one of those additional 12V leads from the motherboard - I chose to unplug the drive-format one, freeing it up to power a drive, keeping the weird square-shaped one plugged in. It then ran fine. Apparently they are redundant, but you can only use one. Note I've found no documentation regarding these newfangled additional power connections anywhere, and have no clue why they're even necessary. Hopefully you've the same issue. (Addendum: looking at pictures of your board online, I don't see a drive-style power connector (though I may be missing it - those pictures are tiny!), but I do see the square-shaped one - is that plugged in?) If none of the above, I suggest double-checking/experimenting with the direction that the power/reset-switch leads from the case are plugged in. On 7/28/06, Dave Phillips <dlphillips(a)woh.rr.com> wrote: -- daneasley(a)gmail.com dan(a)towndowner.com dan(a)burntpossum.com http://towndowner.com http://burntpossum.com

Dave Phillips wrote: 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

On 7/28/06, Dave Phillips <dlphillips(a)woh.rr.com> wrote: Sorry to hear about the problems. If you aren't getting beep codes then you have apretty fundamental problem indicating the processor is not taking the initial jump to BIOS. 1) Remove all PCI cards 2) If the MB has an onboard VGA and you have an AGP VGA installed then remove the AGP card and use the onboard VGA 3) Disconnect power and cabling to all hard drives and DVD drives 4) Power up and see if you get different results. If it still fails then there are a few possibilities: YOU ARE NOT ROOT CAUSE: 1) Bad MB 2) Bad PS 3) Bad processor 4) Bad memory YOU ARE ROOT CAUSE 1) Bad PS connections 2) Bent pins on the processor if you were the person who set it. (Or even if someone else did.) You can pull the processor and double check that no pins were bent when you put it in. You can also look into resetting the memory DIMMs. I wish I could be of more help Dave. I've been through these things before. I've had every problem mentioned above. Good luck finding the root cause. Cheers, Mark

On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 15:20 -0400, Dave Phillips wrote: Check that you have connected the processor fan and that it is spinning at the fastest rate you can get it to spin. Some mobos will refuse to start if they don't detect a processor fan running happily. There's usually a boot time key combination that can be used to boot - and then you can change the detection to "off" in the bios. -- Fernando