old equipment included in new build:
Dell 250w PSU
Pentium 4 2.4ghz
new equipment:
CM Stacker case
PC Chips P25G v3 motherboard P4M4800CE Socket 478
(onboard audio and video)
Crucial 512mbx2 DDR400 2.8v
Aspire Apevia 520w PSU
Seagate 320gb HD 7k 16m SATA2
Was originally working with a Dell motherboard and a WD IDE hard drive that crashed. Took system to CompUSA who put in a new drive, they could not get XP to boot so told me I needed new motherboard. At least they took the drive back and didn't charge me for it.
Case has room for two power supplies and since new one is 24-pin (won't fit motherboard), thought I could use the old Dell PSU to plug into motherboard and new PSU would just power drives, fans, etc. Faulty assumption?
Couldn't get anything to power on, so tried clearing CMOS and just using the old PSU...CPU fan and case fan started working but still can't boot to BIOS, XP CD or motherboard utility CD.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Am starting to feel I was overly ambitious...
Dell 250w PSU
Pentium 4 2.4ghz
new equipment:
CM Stacker case
PC Chips P25G v3 motherboard P4M4800CE Socket 478
(onboard audio and video)
Crucial 512mbx2 DDR400 2.8v
Aspire Apevia 520w PSU
Seagate 320gb HD 7k 16m SATA2
Was originally working with a Dell motherboard and a WD IDE hard drive that crashed. Took system to CompUSA who put in a new drive, they could not get XP to boot so told me I needed new motherboard. At least they took the drive back and didn't charge me for it.
Case has room for two power supplies and since new one is 24-pin (won't fit motherboard), thought I could use the old Dell PSU to plug into motherboard and new PSU would just power drives, fans, etc. Faulty assumption?
Couldn't get anything to power on, so tried clearing CMOS and just using the old PSU...CPU fan and case fan started working but still can't boot to BIOS, XP CD or motherboard utility CD.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Am starting to feel I was overly ambitious...