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tell us what you got dave?
the hdd led is not too important as you will know if it is on the wrong way round and it wont damage anything if u get it wrong. The speaker can go on either way. the power switch - i cant remember so be careful.

Are the leads on the case marked up? they should say on the connectors what they are. look in the manual for the motherboard (i know pc chips are [-peep-] but you might gleam something) and tell us what is there

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good luck dude...

right so case connectors got 2 wires. most of them are wired into 2 wire connectors, some maybe 3.. on the connectors is a little arrow pointing to pin 1. connect that end to pin 1 on the mb as marked in the manual.

speaker is obvious right - SPK1.
reset switch - as u look at manual, the topmost pin is the one you want to put the arrow side of the connctor on.
HDD led - as above
pwr led - as bove
power button - u need to rewire the connector on the case lead. easy to do - use a pin to pull the flap on the connector up so you can pull out the metal bit. do this on both. then insert the red wire into the part of the connector with the arrow, and the black wire into the part next to it (the middle) then plug it in. part of the connector will hang over the end of the connector on the MB.

good luck - i got to go now (football tournament) so sorry to be brief.

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look in the manual at the diagrams. it says which pin is pin one. As you look at the manual it is the top pin. (theres a number 1 next to it.) Attach the side of the connector with the little arrow on (look closely) onto that pin.


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This should be right.

#1 #2
#3 #4
#5 #6

and so on.
The p's = pos The n's = neg the numbers's indicate the position.
1 hd_led_p = Hard drive pos led pin1 case may=hdd
3 hd led n = hard drive neg led pin3
2 Fp pwr/slp = power switch pin 2
4 fp pwr/slp = power switch pin 4
5 rst sw n = reset switch neg pin5
6 rst sw p = reset switch pos pin6

7 rst sw p 7 rst sw n + I dont understand this!
9 key 10 key + I dont know this either.

I hope this helps. Good luck. Post your results. Take care.


Hang in there. It can only get better!

the power button on case must not be connected to mb properly.check that it's on the right way.if you look closely there is usually a little arrow on the end of the head of the connecting lead which points out the 1 pin

dunno about pc chips.silly question but have you secured the connection between psu and mobo?not trying to be patronising but i can't think of anything else.although i have come across occasions where i had to connect the leads up for switches and leds slightly differently from what it said in manual i.e.turning head the other way round.don't try it on my advice though coz i aint sure of the risks involved.

no matter how hard you try, you can't polish a turd. :]

i would be more inclined to go with it being a dodgy case/lead from power switch of case rather than dodgy motherboard.have you used the case before?if you have another mobo around you could try that in it to isolate the problem coz you know it aint the psu so it must be case/power switch lead or mobo.

no matter how hard you try, you can't polish a turd. :]

if it was shorting it would short straight away and not work again.you would have noticed though.looks like you must have a faulty mobo and you will have to get it replaced i'm afraid.hope that aint gonna be a problem.it's happened to me before and that was with an asus.
good luck.

no matter how hard you try, you can't polish a turd. :]

Tell me about it, I wouldn't have bought one of these if someone held a gun against my head. I've tried a 300w psu and a 350 w psu, nothing from either

have you checked that the RAM is pressed in reeeeely hard? Just cos the clips on the side have snapped in doesnt mean the ram is seated right. Theres 184 pins on DDR and it requires some force to get them all in.

you've put the processor in as well right?

*Oh yeah - PC chips - lol.

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If you've got a bad ground a pc will not boot up nor with your psu power up. I got caught with that once many years ago. Can you see any light come on when you hit the power, even if only for a split second? Also one other thing I had seen(only once though) was a faulty drive that took a shock. Everytime I hit the power it blew out the breaker on the P/S. Try unplugging everything but the CPU and Ram and see if you get power to the system.

Save heating costs on your home, overclock your PC!!!

you only need the power switch to get it to power on right ?, you don't need to plug the power led in ?.

I have finally got it cracked its now up and running, want to hear what the problem was, well I'll tell you the manual was F*****g wrong the power switch goes in pins 8 & 9. The only way I found out was by chance, happened to be round a friends house and they had a pc chips mobo so I had a flick through their book and it showed the power switch in pins 8 & 9. I thought I may as well try this when I got home, booted straight away, I couldn't believe it.
I would strongly advise anyone against buying a pc chips motherboard they are terrible.
I must thank everyone for the support it has been most helpfull, but I suppose you can't help if the manual is wrong, thanks again

Dave

Thanks once again for your help mate it was much appreciated. How are you supposed to build a Pc when the manual is wrong, I just can't believe it. F*****G Pc chips utter bollocks.