Antec 1200 case, possibly grounding issue.

[Guest]

Hello, I recently built a pc and I'm getting a strange problem. When I have everything in my Antec case the led for the cpu error lights up on the mobo and it won't post. However, when I have it set up in another spare case that i have everything boots up just fine. Not sure what the issue is.

 

[tecmo34]

Do you have the standoff's installed correctly & double check there are no loose metal or anything exposed that could be hitting your motherboard.

 

[jadams225]

I put it back in the Antec case and it no longer worked(double checked that i had put the stand-offs in correctly). after a great deal of playing around with things i finally got it to work in the Antec case after unplugging the reset switch from the mobo. I tested the switch with a multimeter and it was working as it should, but it was definitely the problem. everything is working fine now with the switch unplugged.

 

[jadams225]

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