New system, where's the on switch?

Llama8

Llama8

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Just got my new pc, plug in the power & it's not turning on???

It's a phantom 820 case, there's a large white button near the front where the audio odds & sods are, but nothing happens when I press it...
 
Yup. I'm assuming I am actually pressing the power switch on the case.... It's obviously gone through QA/testing, so it must work.

Oddly, when I plug in the psu to the wall, there's no sparking/etc when the pins connect.

And there doesn't appear to be a booklet/manual for the case in the boxes I received.
 
Unplugging the two SATA drives (with all my stuff on them which I need to copy over) has at least got the machine to boot up, which is a good start.
 
open the case and make sure nothings come loose in transport, i have an asus mobo and the wire that that connects to the mobo from the case 'on switch' would probably pop off if i moved my case 1ft its so loose

EDIT: nvm due to post above :)
 
Yeah, there was an odd rattling sound when I got the case out of the box, not sure what that was, but it's working at least, even if I did have to use the power button on the motherboard. Now to see if I can get the drives attached & stuff copied across/installed/etc...
 
Ok, somethings wrong. Step away from the case. Stop pressing the button.

Take out the drives you've plugged in. Does it turn on? Also, what is the product called, we need full system specs.
 
Yeah, I unplugged my old drives & it switched on fine, booted into windows. I then plugged in one of the old drives, popped into the bios & noticed that the secondary HDD wasn't showing up (the power cable had come out). Now I'm back in windows & copying over all of my stuff from the old storage HDD & will try with my old SSD when that's all done (which may take some time with ~133 gig....).

As to the product, it's a OcUK Pro Gamer X65i Intel Z87:

Specification
NZXT Phantom 820 Enthusiast Ultra Tower Case
Stage 4 Intel: Overclock of CPU - 4.5GHz Overclock
Intel Core i5-4670K
Corsair Hydro H80i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
MSI Z87-GD65 Gaming Series Intel Z87
TeamGroup Vulcan RED 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C11 2133MHz
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 780 WindForce 3x OC Rev2.0 3072MB GDDR5
Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic
Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache
Pioneer BDC-207DBK 8x BluRay ROM / DVDRW SATA-II Optical Drive
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio 7.1 Sound Card
Seasonic X-Series 850w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit
 
Ok, sounds all good. What did the rattling sound like? Are we talking cables or something else?

Word of advice, move the items over to the SSD don't clone it, apparently cloning can make the drive not perform at its best.
 
Sounded like a loose piece of plastic (hopefully, rather than a loose screw, couldn't see anything move around/loose when I had a look). And yes, I'm copying everything over. At least the time the copy's taking should let me tidy up the mass of **** behind my desk...
 
I'm a bit confused & hope someone will be able to enlighten me.

My motherboard has a built in soundcard, I also have an add-in soundcard. My headphones connect via USB, so how would I know where the sound's comming from (the onboard sound hardware or the addin card)? And/or should I (can I?) disable the onboard sound hardware in the bios (I assume I can like I would with any onboard gfx hardware)?
 
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