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Stu55

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I took all my stuff out today (All working fine), to do some wire management (Probably spent a good 4-5 hours on it. I should mention I cut a hole in the corner to pull wires through routing them behind the mobo tray (I vacuumed it out after it too), (It's a Chieftec Dragon Mid-Tower), I also put my exhaust fan wires behind the mobo to the fan headers on the bottom of the mobo (If the wires from the fan are touching the back of the mobo it shouldn't be a problem would it?). After I put everything together...no start, all the fans do like 1/4 to 1/2 a revolution and that's it, like it's about to start up for a fraction of a second. I have a ABIT AA8XE and the POST code little code shows. I check all my connections everything seems right. I am getting a spare 24 pin atx power supply to use tommorow to see if that works, otherwise what do you guys think happened in the process? I really hope it is the psu.
Sucks too because I was going to have a LAN party tommorow :(
 
Yeah...this is one of the reasons why I don't want to clean up my wiring. :p

The whole thing with the fans sounds A LOT like a short or a loose connection. I had it happen quite a few times..but since you said you double checked connections...

To be safe I'd move everything off the mobo. Less stuff touching = better.

You could go all out, and it might narrow stuff down faster, and pull out the essential stuff. Boot with just the mobo, cpu, RAM, video card, and psu outside the case. This ensures that nothing is in contact and allows you to see if anything died.

Doubt you killed anything though...unless you smell/see burn.

 
No I do not smell anything burnt, maybe I will give it a try with my psu out of the case and unconnecting everything except the necessities.

Thanks for the speedy reply :)
 
I fixed it, thanks for the help! Gonna do some pwn'ing at the lan party! w00t!
 
Took everything out, I think it was the fan wires touching the back of the mobo, I don't think it liked that.
 
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