paceinyoface and Husky McTarflash -You are not alone....
In my antec 900 I placed the motherboard, after installing the cpu (q9450) and heatsink.
Then 2*2 gig ram, the fx-card (gforce 8600) and the harddisk was placed.
I thought I was doing a great job, when I bought a 20 pin to 24 pin extension cable and a 4 pin to 8 pin extension cable....
In my stupidity....I thought that the 4 pin, which was together with the 20 pin, was to the cpu....All the hardware and fans I connected to my chieftech 500 wat psu, well it did not look 100& neat, but I wanted to see some light! Was still not connected to monitor, and I got the speaker from the chieftech dragoon case, (now retired).
I hold my breath and started up. Nothing happened! I then plugged the monitor on and tried again, hope hope, but nothing happened. I tried to take the psu apart, but thats very hard so I gave up. I then got an idea and found the paperbox where the chieftech psu once was in, and there, on the side, in color, I could see I was an idiot! You now know this as well. The psu is dead, fan will not turn, out of the case, not connected to anything. Will now get a Corsair HX520W. Modular psu are very good to an antec 900 case cause not much space for cables. Well I will get it next year. Will then try roadrunner197069 s´ advice which I found in this tread. I too wanted to know if i fried something, hopefully only the psu died.
A happy NEW YEAR TO ALL. (fedtmusen means "fat mouse" but I might change my name to "dummy") ;]