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jbh110tdi said:
not local to me then.. just if you had been local I would have offered to pop round and help.
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Ha, that would have been helpful! Thanks for the thought though :)

Sorry for not having the images up sooner, not been about much to take them and when I did I forgot to upload them! It was pretty difficult to get decent images (a fair few are a little blurry...), but I took a few and I'm more than happy to take more/better photos of any areas people think might be causing an issue.

Link to the album (PC - 2) on photobucket.

Again, sorry for the poor quality of the images. If they need to be retaken just let me know and tomorrow I'll take some with my actual camera rather than my phone.

Thanks for the ongoing help everyone :)
 
right this could be a stab in the dark. but looking at youre pictures and looking at the manual for the motherboard can you double check the front panel connections.
just looking at youre picture it looks as if the pwr switch is plugged into the hdd activity led pins. ( as you say bad pic so could just be the way im looking at it. )
Im my experience the pwr switch is normally the red and white wires

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jbh110tdi said:
right this could be a stab in the dark. but looking at youre pictures and looking at the manual for the motherboard can you double check the front panel connections.
just looking at youre picture it looks as if the pwr switch is plugged into the hdd activity led pins. ( as you say bad pic so could just be the way im looking at it. )
Im my experience the pwr switch is normally the red and white wires
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Could be this, you could try taking all the bits out of the case connecting them up and then using a screwdriver to the power pins on the motherboard to start up the PC. Like the following video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZqunOrUWeM
 
jbh110tdi said:
why not just connect the power switch to the correct pins?
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That would be the first thing i'd try, you can take all the other connectors off and only connect the power switch (then you will have no doubt that its connected correctly) as you don't need any others connected for the pc to power on.

If you get really stuck let me know, as i'm based in Bristol I should be able to come and help you out :)
 
I hope you tidy the cable routing up when you are finished, I know you haven't got it working but that cabling offends my OCD.

In all seriousness I would suggest re-checking the front panel connectors, it's quite easy to get them wrong. A helpful hint in case you hadn't realized is that the common colour on all of them is ground. Which is white in this case. (sorry if I'm teaching you to suck eggs)
 
Ok, just a very quick reply to say I haven't vanished, just been caught up with a few things. I plan on sitting down on Tuesday with this and trying the recommendaitons :) I thought I'd got the power switch connected correctly but I'm happy to pull it out and have another look as it would be quite great if that was the problem (and then it might all slot into place and boot up aha!).

Thanks for all the help, really appretiated (even if it does take me a few days to get back to you all!). And thanks for the offer Spud21, hopefully I won't need to take you up on it but knowing there's that option is pretty great!
 
jbh110tdi said:
why not just connect the power switch to the correct pins?
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I had it once when moving my cousin's old PC into a new case that the power button on the new case didn't work, after a while of trying to figure out what was wrong I used the screwdriver on the powerbutton pins to figure out that it was the new button on the PC that was the problem. Wasn't impressed as it took me a couple of hours to move the parts from case to case twice to try and figure out the problem. I ended up removing the working power button off the old case and poked it out of the new one so that they could actually turn on their PC.
 
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I had it once when moving my cousin's old PC into a new case that the power button on the new case didn't work, after a while of trying to figure out what was wrong I used the screwdriver on the powerbutton pins to figure out that it was the new button on the PC that was the problem. Wasn't impressed as it took me a couple of hours to move the parts from case to case twice to try and figure out the problem. I ended up removing the working power button off the old case and poked it out of the new one so that they could actually turn on their PC.
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I used the reset switch on my brothers old case when his power button packed up. Im sure its still like that as his mother in law now has it
 
So I managed to find a few minutes today to test the power switch, no joy :( I tried the power switch cable both ways round to ensure I wasn't doing something silly, did the same with the reset switch (on the power pins) and also tried a screwdriver. No sign of any power flowing. :(
 
I am indeed still using the old PSU. I'll give the jump starting a go when I get back from work tomorrow evening. Fingers crossed it's just a duff PSU and a new (better) one will fix that :)

Thanks for the on going help all :)


Update (25/02):

So I ended up getting caught up with something at work and haven't had a chance to try this yet. I'm out tomorrow and Satruday but Sunday looks free to I'll get on it then and post an update. Sorry for this!
 
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Ok so I tried jump starting my PSU and it did start the (PSU) fan ticking over, but it seemed slower than I normally see and it was making a clicking sound which I've not heard before. Is this normal? I mean I've only ever seen a PSU powered up when the whole PC was going so not sure what it SHOULD sound like (could be the CPU fan covers the clicking up) and for all I know it only idles when jump starting.

I tried connecting the 24 pin back to the old mobo but it didn't fire up either.

Any ideas?

(Sorry for taking so long to try this out and again thanks for all the help!)
 
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