Asus mobo problem, or not

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superkdogg

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Last night, I switched cases on the rig in my sig. I have a Fortron 450 watt psu (20+4 pins) and a generic firewire card as well as some hard drives (WD 1200JB, 2x WD800JB, 2xHitachi 80 GB SATA) in addition to what is listed.

The problem is that the rig was working perfectly prior to the switch. I disassembled it all and put it into the new case. Reconnect everything and take it back to the room where the monitor and peripherals are and turn it on. And push power button again. And push reset button. And swear, but none of those things seems to make the rig power up :mad: .

After peeling off the side panel, I noticed that the mobo's green LED is not lit at all. It's supposed to be solid green if there is power to the board, flashing green in standby. Also, the NIC lights in the back are not lit either, so I know that there is a power issue.

The Asus website says that you should unplug the power cord and hold the power button for 10 seconds to perform a "power supply reset." I have no idea what that is, or why only Asus says to try this, but I did it and it didn't help. I also did not switch to 230 by mistake and tried it with the manual PSU switch in both positions.

Given that I highly doubt that in the course of changing cases I killed either the mobo or the PSU, what do you guys think might be the issue?

I'll probably go through the standard troubleshooting of pulling it out of the case, stripping to video and ram, then adding components one at a time, but I'm hoping that somebody can save me the hassle. Any suggestions?
 
superkdogg said:
Last night, I switched cases on the rig in my sig. I have a Fortron 450 watt psu (20+4 pins) and a generic firewire card as well as some hard drives (WD 1200JB, 2x WD800JB, 2xHitachi 80 GB SATA) in addition to what is listed.

The problem is that the rig was working perfectly prior to the switch. I disassembled it all and put it into the new case. Reconnect everything and take it back to the room where the monitor and peripherals are and turn it on. And push power button again. And push reset button. And swear, but none of those things seems to make the rig power up :mad: .

After peeling off the side panel, I noticed that the mobo's green LED is not lit at all. It's supposed to be solid green if there is power to the board, flashing green in standby. Also, the NIC lights in the back are not lit either, so I know that there is a power issue.

The Asus website says that you should unplug the power cord and hold the power button for 10 seconds to perform a "power supply reset." I have no idea what that is, or why only Asus says to try this, but I did it and it didn't help. I also did not switch to 230 by mistake and tried it with the manual PSU switch in both positions.

Given that I highly doubt that in the course of changing cases I killed either the mobo or the PSU, what do you guys think might be the issue?

I'll probably go through the standard troubleshooting of pulling it out of the case, stripping to video and ram, then adding components one at a time, but I'm hoping that somebody can save me the hassle. Any suggestions?
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Dunno but did you plug the 4 pin P4 connector as well ? Often, ppl forget this :eek:
 
For clarification, this motherboard is not getting any power at all, not even in a stand-by situation. The green light would be lit if it were.

I'm really hoping that it's grounded somewhere, but other than that I am kind of at a loss.
 
Check that you put the power/reset switchs on the correct headers.
Also check the wall switch is on........

They are the classic ones for why it wont boot.

Luck......... :D
 
Hey-Thanks again for the response, but I did already check and double check this. I tried the cord in multiple sockets and the reason that I tried hitting reset (as described in the OP) is because I have made the mix-up of switches before (I've even set up the reset switch to the power header on purpose-great suggestion for those with kids-just leave the power switch unhooked since it's so much easier for those little fingers to push that button in most cases).

The real stumper of this situation is that there is no power to the mobo at all. If there were, the light would be solid green even with the power off. That light indicates power to the mobo, and it's dark. :(
 
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