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Hey guys. As some of you might know, I'm starting my CCNA studying here soon. I just got my equipment and I just bought a new 450 Watt PSU in order to have a test PC just for Cisco stuff. But one thing I don't have is a case. No big deal right? I should just connect everything and make the two power pins touch on the mobo with say a screwdriver. Sounds easy right? I've actually done it before a thousands times. But with this combination, I can't get anything to power up. Here's my setup:
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L
Intel E4300 C2D
2GB Corsair RAM
eVGA 7600GT
Rosewill 450WT PSU
20GB IDE HDD
Old DVD ROM Drive
I have the motherboard sitting on top of an anti-static bag and the original box. The PSU is sitting upwards and is connected to everything properly. Each time that I try to touch the two power pins together, the fans on the CPU HSF and video card go for about a split second and then quit, kinda like when you flip your PSU on from an off state. I've tried a jumper and a paperclip but nothing does the trick.
So here's what else I tried. I took my front panel connections from my desktop below, hooked it up to the Rosewill PSU/Gigabyte board and it didn't work.
I also tried connecting my Zalman PSU to the Gigabyte board and it worked! I went into the BIOS and turned on the Wake from Keyboard" option but I'm guessing that you have to have the PS/2 style keyboard since it has the option for USB Keyboard on/off. Therefore, the motherboard isn't bad.
Finally, I tried to connect the Rosewill PSU to my MSI Diamond and Q6600. I hit the switch and everything worked! So the PSU isn't bad.
Turns out to be something I'm doing wrong. I went into my closet and pulled out an old board (1.0 GHz Celeron, 512MB RAM, Onboard Video) and it works with the Rosewill.
Do you guys think that 450 Watts isn't enough for the setup above? Or am I just doing something completely wrong?
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L
Intel E4300 C2D
2GB Corsair RAM
eVGA 7600GT
Rosewill 450WT PSU
20GB IDE HDD
Old DVD ROM Drive
I have the motherboard sitting on top of an anti-static bag and the original box. The PSU is sitting upwards and is connected to everything properly. Each time that I try to touch the two power pins together, the fans on the CPU HSF and video card go for about a split second and then quit, kinda like when you flip your PSU on from an off state. I've tried a jumper and a paperclip but nothing does the trick.
So here's what else I tried. I took my front panel connections from my desktop below, hooked it up to the Rosewill PSU/Gigabyte board and it didn't work.
I also tried connecting my Zalman PSU to the Gigabyte board and it worked! I went into the BIOS and turned on the Wake from Keyboard" option but I'm guessing that you have to have the PS/2 style keyboard since it has the option for USB Keyboard on/off. Therefore, the motherboard isn't bad.
Finally, I tried to connect the Rosewill PSU to my MSI Diamond and Q6600. I hit the switch and everything worked! So the PSU isn't bad.
Turns out to be something I'm doing wrong. I went into my closet and pulled out an old board (1.0 GHz Celeron, 512MB RAM, Onboard Video) and it works with the Rosewill.
Do you guys think that 450 Watts isn't enough for the setup above? Or am I just doing something completely wrong?