Motherboard or Case problem?

[AgedIdiot]

Have just swapped corsair aio for an air cooler on a MSI GD65 P67 board - which involved removing the board and re-building the whole thing.

Pressed the start button - nothing. Double/triple checked all connections in place - no apparent problems - Tried again - nothing.

Noticed that the board has what I can best describe as 'on' , 'reset' and overclock(turbo) buttons so decided to try the on button - great it all starts and appears to be running correctly.
EXCEPT realised that the power button on the case is still not working and pressing and holding for 5 secs (tried 30secs! and a few more attempts) does not power down i.e. the button does appear to be wholly ineffective.
The reset button works as you would expect although I have not tried to re-set from start so do not know if I could use as a substitute start button.

To me it boils down to a button/case or motherboard problem but would appreciate advice of others 1

For myself I think it is probably a case/button issue but am wary of spending on a new case because I am simply misinterpreting the problem.

Thanks , in anticipation.

BTW - the case is a cheap Silverstone job - PO5b or something like.

 

[stulid]

Could be even the wires to the board, there could be a breakage in one.

Replicate the power on button by shorting the two pins on the board with a screwdriver or something.

 

[AgedIdiot]

Could be even the wires to the board, there could be a breakage in one.

Replicate the power on button by shorting the two pins on the board with a screwdriver or something.

Decided to give it one more run through of all cable connections and wires before trying this.

Found the problem - my own incompetence !!

Basically one of the wires to the connector which plugs into the board had become loose - found this when 'purposely' pushing them in 'again' and with one there was a 'click' as it connected.

Now appears all to be in order

Sorry for wasting anyone's time - blame it on another senior moment

 

[LewisRaz]

We have all done things like this Not to worry