Installing the psu?

[Peter2003a]

Hi,

This is my set-up:

Thermaltake Xaser 3 2000 series aluminum case,
Enermax PSU ATX 450W (P-4) Silent Plus Series,
ASUS P4C800 Deluxe motherboard.


The problem I have is connecting the psu to the mobo and all 7 fans. Could anyone with a similar setup give me a few pointers on this? I thought I had everything connected but when I turned on the power at the main button, nothing happened - no fans blowing at all but the LED on the board was illuminated green so there was power somewhere!

I'm not sure if it is simply that the lead from the main power button is in the wrong place - the manual is very unclear!

Thanks

 

[dakota81]

Is the power switch connected to the right pins on the mobo? If you unplug the power switch and carefully short the two pins with a screwdriver does the machine then boot up? Is the cpu fan plugged into the mobo power connection that is labelled "cpu fan"? Have you reseated the cpu & memory couple times over? Reseated an agp video card? Try removing the reset switch connection on the motherboard?

These are just the possiblities I could list off the top of my head.

 

[Lammbock]

Whats your video card? In case its 3.3v and not 1.5v its quiet normal that its not booting but showing some kind of error message. Otherwise your system is likely to go up in smoke...

 

[Peter2003a]

I haven't actually put the video card in yet. I'm just testing to see that the fans start up when the power button is pressed. Thats not happening. The Xaser III has a few connectors coming from the fron unit - the fans controllers are a few of them and then tere are TWO wired saying "for power supply". I'm not sure if both need to be connected or just one. I have tried every combination I can think of.

Does anyone out there own a Xaser III 2000 series case?

 

[Kocky]

Why not take a look at the manual that came with your motherboard and PC case. Here you'll propably find a nice explaination on how to do it and which cables you need.

 

[Peter2003a]

Yeah the manual is poor - not much explanation about anything. I guess i'll just have to figure it out by trial and error.

 

[dakota81]

Try putting the video card in; Since the motherboard makes the decision whether to power up the psu or not, maybe it's detecting no video card or maybe no ram & not powering up the psu?

 

[Lammbock]

I own a Xaser III. Ill see how I connected everything tomorrow.

 

[Peter2003a]

Thanks Lammbock - I would appreciate that.

 

[mainegeek]

Is the ATX power connector attached to the mobo?

 

[Peter2003a]

Yes thats all fine - there is a 20 pin(i think its 20) and a 4 pin connector and both are attached.

 

[dakota81]

If it's still not working, take the motherboard out of the case, lay the anti-static bag the board came with underneath the board, hook up video, memory, cpu, & the psu to the board. Short the power pins with a screwdriver. If the machine doesn't power up, reseat the cpu & memory, and if it still doesn't power up, one of those components is defective.

You've got the right power connections between the board & psu.

 

[Lammbock]

well, with the xaser there should not be a problem. the power-botton is the one with the white-blue cable...