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Sometimes, it's the little things and a lot can be said for fixing a problem when first encountered rather than writing it off as a simple annoyance.
Just upgraded from a old XP/Athlon 64 single-core/7600GT to a newish Win7Athlon Phenom II 955/Radeon 5770 and I must say, I'm thrilled with it! However, I had one slight birthing pain that was quite entertaining, providing you were the one watching me try to figure what was going on.
After installing all my new bits into my newly dusted and cleaned up case, I push the power button and...nada. Nothing. Just a nice, loud 'CLICK-click' of me pushing the power button and releasing it. Man did my heart jump! My first reaction wasn't 'what's dead" but "what the hell did I do wrong?!" My new ASUS 785G motherboard has a nice little light that says it has power but still nothing. I did notice that the PWR LED on front of case had power (it was lit up) as did the illuminated scroll wheel on my Razer Deathadder mouse (why are they all blue? is blue the new black?) After triple-checking everything I think that maybe, somehow?, the power switch doesn't work. I disconnect the PWR Switch motherboard connector and swap it with the RESET button connector (both switches can't be failing, right?) Holy crap, it worked! Time to get out the multimeter and check continuity: reset switch beeps ok (just checking to make sure I remeber how to test for continuity; it's been a while) but the pwr switch doesn't beep. Crap. I can live with this but it was pretty annoying. I trace the green/white wire of the PWR SWTCH connector to the...what the hell? They just went to the POWER LED. The ORANGE/WHITE wires of the power switch go to...POWER LED connector.
Awesome. I just discovered, for the third time (this is my third build in this particular case) that the small black motherboard connectors of the PWR switch/led were swapped/mislabeled (one says PWR SW, the other says PWR LED and just in case you're not too clear what the hell I'm talking about, these are the tiny, 2-pin wide connectors that attach to the mother board.) I now recall having this issue, with the same 'no power' after connecting everything, on the last build almost four years ago (too long ago to remember the first build, but I'm certain it was the same too.) I also remember just swapping the connectors to the correct pins, because I was lazy like that.
So now that I realized what happened and more importantly why (see first sentence of post), I go ahead and swap the connectors to the correct wires. Now the power switch is connected properly and all works as intended and, again, I'm terribly impressed with how everything is working.
I still need to finish added various bits of software and setting things up how I want them but everything is looking good so far. Next will to try some limited OC, at least to Phenom II 965 levels.
Just upgraded from a old XP/Athlon 64 single-core/7600GT to a newish Win7Athlon Phenom II 955/Radeon 5770 and I must say, I'm thrilled with it! However, I had one slight birthing pain that was quite entertaining, providing you were the one watching me try to figure what was going on.
After installing all my new bits into my newly dusted and cleaned up case, I push the power button and...nada. Nothing. Just a nice, loud 'CLICK-click' of me pushing the power button and releasing it. Man did my heart jump! My first reaction wasn't 'what's dead" but "what the hell did I do wrong?!" My new ASUS 785G motherboard has a nice little light that says it has power but still nothing. I did notice that the PWR LED on front of case had power (it was lit up) as did the illuminated scroll wheel on my Razer Deathadder mouse (why are they all blue? is blue the new black?) After triple-checking everything I think that maybe, somehow?, the power switch doesn't work. I disconnect the PWR Switch motherboard connector and swap it with the RESET button connector (both switches can't be failing, right?) Holy crap, it worked! Time to get out the multimeter and check continuity: reset switch beeps ok (just checking to make sure I remeber how to test for continuity; it's been a while) but the pwr switch doesn't beep. Crap. I can live with this but it was pretty annoying. I trace the green/white wire of the PWR SWTCH connector to the...what the hell? They just went to the POWER LED. The ORANGE/WHITE wires of the power switch go to...POWER LED connector.
Awesome. I just discovered, for the third time (this is my third build in this particular case) that the small black motherboard connectors of the PWR switch/led were swapped/mislabeled (one says PWR SW, the other says PWR LED and just in case you're not too clear what the hell I'm talking about, these are the tiny, 2-pin wide connectors that attach to the mother board.) I now recall having this issue, with the same 'no power' after connecting everything, on the last build almost four years ago (too long ago to remember the first build, but I'm certain it was the same too.) I also remember just swapping the connectors to the correct pins, because I was lazy like that.
So now that I realized what happened and more importantly why (see first sentence of post), I go ahead and swap the connectors to the correct wires. Now the power switch is connected properly and all works as intended and, again, I'm terribly impressed with how everything is working.
I still need to finish added various bits of software and setting things up how I want them but everything is looking good so far. Next will to try some limited OC, at least to Phenom II 965 levels.
