New Case - No Power

[MG42Maniac]

Hi Guys,

I wondered if anyone could help me with a little problem I am having. I recently changed my case for a Coolermaster HAF932 as my old case was getting a bit long in the tooth. I have transferred the internals, connected it up, but upon pressing the power button nothing happens.

On the Motherboard (Asus P5K Intel P35) the green light is lit up to indicate there is power and as far as I am aware there are no component failures as everything was working perfectly in the last case. I have checked to make sure the front connections (Reset,Power, HDD, speaker etc) are wired up correctly and they appear to be, I have swapped around the order a few times but to no avail. I have also popped the case top to check the wiring to the actual buttons and it appears to be fine.

I only had this delivered from OCUK yesterday so really don't want to have to send it back!

I've had a Google about and everyone suggests checking the front connectors are wired in correctly which I am 99.9% they are. I guess the ultimate test will be to wire in the connectors from my old case to see if they work?

Any help would be hugely appreciated!

 

[RJC]

Double check all power connectors are in and checking the 4 or 8 pin for cpu power.

I have had this before.

 

[cmndr_andi]

You may want to make sure that there are no unused motherboard spacers between the motherboard and the case. From my experience Coolermaster throws in loads of these spacers, many of which are not needed to connect up a standard ATX board.

These extra spacers can short out parts of your board and cause the problems you are having.

Also, are both the 4(or 8) pin and 24 pin motherboard power connectors correctly connected?

 

[MG42Maniac]

Double check all power connectors are in and checking the 4 or 8 pin for cpu power.

I have had this before.

I am pretty sure they are but I only doubled checked them, I will check them again when I get home tonight. Thanks!

You may want to make sure that there are no unused motherboard spacers between the motherboard and the case. From my experience Coolermaster throws in loads of these spacers, many of which are not needed to connect up a standard ATX board.

These extra spacers can short out parts of your board and cause the problems you are having.

Also, are both the 4(or 8) pin and 24 pin motherboard power connectors correctly connected?

I believe there are some unused spacers so I will remove the unused ones and see if it makes a difference. Thanks!

 

[MG42Maniac]

Last night I completely rebuilt the internals and made sure there were no unused spacers and triple checked every power connector was properly connected up, still nothing. I am starting to think that maybe something was killed while I transferred the internals? I guess the ultimate test would be to transport everything back to the old case and see if it works but that would be a lot of hassle I might ring up OCUK support and see if they have any ideas.

 

[cmndr_andi]

Do you have a spare PSU you can try out?

Also, its always worth trying out the RAM sticks individually to see if one of them decided to die.

 

[MG42Maniac]

The PSU was killed, not sure how it happened. Replaced it with a Corsair TX 650W and picked up a Asus Xonar D2X as well and everything is working now, thanks again!