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Rig stopped powering on

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darunium

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Hi All,

So I just built a new HTPC (details in sig). I got it running with just the boot SSD about a week ago, just installed Win7 and drivers then set it aside for the week til I could get to it again. It ran fine then, booted multiple times, I played with it a little here and there.

I just added two HDD to the system, did cable management and all that, (all the while wearing an antistatic wristband), closed it all up and wouldn't you know it it won't power on.

In terms of symptoms, here's exactly what happens:

- nothing (with 1 exception) happens, no lights or sounds from motherboard, no fans spinning, no power to anything,
- The ONLY thing that happens is there is a faint low-pitched 'click' or 'tick' from the PSU as soon as I flip the switch, then nothing.

It makes me think that I have a short somewhere, that's happened to me before but then I still had a brief spin-up (maybe half a second) before everything shut down. That was a different PSU however the circuit breaker may be in a different location on this PSU (Antec BP550).

Anyway, any advice anyone has would be greatly appreciated.

I read the FAQ and followed the linked flowchart, but that didn't really solve my problem.

If my boot drive got somehow damaged or shorted, would the symptoms be similar? wouldn't the MoBo still power on?

If I somehow fried the MoBo, what would the symptoms be, something similar? Do I just have a short, or could it be something else?

Thanks!
darunium
 
I solved the issue, it was a short, I had thrown in a shorter 6-pin PSU connector to molex since I was only using one of the connectors over a short distance, but I just noticed that that 6-pin connector had a wire doubled back on itself. Idk where I got it from but it was shorting the PSU, replaced that with the original Molex connector, problem solved.
 
trying reseting the cmos/or remove the battery from the motherboard and try it.
 
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