ok people.
I AM FINISHED! (almost)
Here is what happened.
It took me about 5 hours all together this inlcudes building and trouble shooting. I started the build going slow putting in the cpu then the low profile fan then onto the Ram. I put the computer into the case and then had to take it out a few times to adjust for some cabling and things that I hadnet noticed the first time around. It was tight but it all fits perfectly, my Hardrive is a SSD from samsung thge 840 which i belive is a 7mm drive. Thank god for that because that was a tight fit, i didnt place it ontop of the cpu fan because then the fan wouldnt have any room to breath instead i placed jsut off to the side.
This is where the problems started. the case comes with 2 wires a usb header wire connector and led and power switch connector. The issue is these are 2 short to reach over the the cpu fan and into the correct port.
When i ordered the case from mini box they had an option for $2 to get some extension cable which i did just in case i needed them (i did!) good thing i got them otherwise i would have been in some seriouse trouble. after about 20 i figured out which way the usb header was supposed to go inside the socket. Now my biggest issue was that i could figure out where to connect the power and LED cables. I was looking for some sort of power lable on the MOBO or the manual when i should have been looking for the system connection ports ( i believe that what they where called) I had called MSI to help me locate the power connections
on the MOBO and after about 20 mini on the phone i gave up and decided to go it alone (sure at this point someone with
more experience would have not had this issue at all knowing what i know now but this is my first build and as
they say live and learn. once i finally located the pins and i found in the MOBO manual exactly which onces i needed
i couldnt get the power switch to turn on nor the LED i did turn on the computer by shorting the pins with a screw drive
but this wouldnt work long term obviously. I must have spend the better part of 2 hours just fixing this issue alone.
I tried every combination of wire placing that i would think of until i was just about to give up for the night when i
realized that next to the power there were the LED lights and next to that there was these 2 pins with kinda a black cap
on them that, the cap was only covering one of the pins, so i started playing with the cap putting it on and off until
eventualy i got the correct placement and now i have the LED lights working and the power switch. I put the black cap
on both pins tha ones that was labeled disabled. viola it now works. Thank god. i was getting nervous at the at end
over there. When i was shorting the MOBO with the Screw drive i powered on the PC the came on but not the computer,
What i did was, was to take out the RAM and reinstall it and then the computer powered on. So now the computer is closed
the power switch and LED work.
The only other issue that i have now and it you guys can maybe give me some input i woudl appreciate it. installed windows
from a USB drive that i downloaded the ISO files for and turned in into a bootable drive using a program called Rufus
( i believe thats what it was called) I used a winodws key from my laptop and it now says that i dont have a genuine
version of windows installed. I would obviously like to not have to but windows again can you guy think of a way
that i can get around this? I was thinking of maybe buying windows 8 pro upgrade do you think that will work on this windows
even though its not a verified version?
I have not forgoten about the pictures i have taken a bunch and i will be posting them as soon as i get home tonight.
I appreciate all the help from everyone and i hope this will serve to help someone else who is loking to build a mini itx pc
using a mini boc m350 case.