Home build won't power - what have I done!?

what HD are you using?

Did you connect the 4 pin power supply connector?
What is your video card?
Clear the bios.

take a breath

4 pin to the aux cpu connector, up near the cpu? plugged in?

did the ram automatically 'click' when u put it in?

did u try taking a hammer and hitting ur PSU very hard with it?
*note* one well placed hit should be sufficient

If some pins are plugged in the wrong place, the mobo won't [post.

Yah the motherboard standby LED turns on. And yes the power switch is connected, I actually tried to use a power switch from another case and that didnt seem to work either. Im assuming the colored wire is the voltage and the white one is the ground, and I have that plugged in properly.

Shadowthor: Which pins? I can definitely double check.

just short the power pins on the mobo with a scredriver, takes any switch or reset switch problems out of picture

Argh! northerdude you took the words right out of my mouth! Good call.

That is my suspicion as well. Sometimes the diagram for where the PWR, IDE, RESET, etc leads are plugged into the Mobo can be misleading. I would double and tripple check that they are plugged into the right ones. I have been known to make this mistake during this phase of installation due to my overwhelming desire to complete a new system build.

Check yer leads from the front of the case. If you just matched colors, you may have put them in wrong. Check yer manual and make sure you put the right ones int he right places and make sure the plus and minuses are correct as well.

I did this with my first build too and finally figured it out. There were red and orange cables and pins, but the orange went with the red and red with orange. Great how that works, but needless to say i consulted by instruction booklet and solved the problem.

have you checked the fuse? It is a very small diode located close to
your power to mobo connector.....
at least most of mine are....
Ya gotta love this micro-technology that makes everything so small
that you need a magnifying glass and directions to find anything.
Most electronic circuits and boards today do in fact have fuses, they are
just micro'ed.

I cant find a fuse at all, what does it look like exactly? I see a few things surrounding that, but none looking like a typical fuse

If you really want to bother with the fuses, they are surface mounted, usually very flat. But sometimes they are tiny retangualr box shapes (but you wont be able to tell if they are surface mounted capactiors), the flat ones are usually green. the boxs one white or clearish white. You need a multimeter to tell if they are bad.



Oh, did I mention, you cant change them?



The only thing I can recommend you do is:

1. MAKE SURE YOUR CLEAR CMOS JUMPER IS IN THE RIGHT POSITION. Wont do anything at all if its not. motherboard will act exactly like it is if the cmos jumper is in the wrong postion. move it over and hit the power switch just in case you have it backwards. its the first blue one I believe above your Frontpanel header.

2. If that dont work, do the screw driver trick again. remove all of your front panel wires. Short out all the pins group togther that the power switch, hard drive led, power led, and reset switch connect too. do it in all directions, side to side and up to down (no diagonals, but diaganols wont hurt). Dont worry, you wont fry anthing (unless you strike the screw driver somewhere else other than those pins. use a butter knife if your not sure you have a metal screwdriver ( ). I believe that ASUS board has a little plastic connector that you put your front panel connectors on, then you put that assembly on the motherboard header. If so, be sure your using that.

3. If you have another power suppy handy, try it. Not all PSU and motherboards get along. Dont worry if its a small one, just as long as its more than 250watts. (this is just for testing)

4. Pull your CPU. Turn it around, and in good light, make sure you dont have ANY bent pins. If the cpu didnt literaly drop in (if you had to push at all) you screwed it up. If there is no bent pins, Put it back in after lining it up correctly, PUSH somewhat on the center of it before you lock it down with the lever. reapply thermal paste if you have it sparringly (after cleaning the old stuff off). if you dont have thermal paste handy, just leave the old stuff there and reapply the thermal paste if you get it working.


Other than that, send both the processor and motherboard to newegg, and get another pair




Spunks

ya, i did that, i think im gonna start RMAing parts, and try to figure out whats going on. thanks for all the help!