Days go by, and still I think about you

Well I absolutely had to blog. This little incident surely made my night (or day .. well thats another story). So anyways I woke with a knock on my door. My 26" monitor I had FedEx-ed from Philadelphia arrived and with a new speaker system well I was surely in business to finally do what I had long delayed; and that is to bring my beastly machine into functional order once more.

I began by going to Wallmart picking up some Dust Remover and got to work by completely taking apart my mobo and even replacing the Arctic solution that needed or not has been there for the past two years. It was a fun activity, scraping off the greese, dusting the fans. I felt in tune with my hardware again. Well ... that moment only lasted briefly as I began to put the machine back together I had also wanted to reorganize the wiring. Primarily the PSU wiring was horrendous. I went as far as to use duct tape to hold certain wires in place. It looked fantastic and I go to power the machine on. ... ...

Right thats preciously what happened. Nothing at all. I was bewildered as I double checked everything and it seemed to be on order. Yes I did re arrange the wiring but regardless it was all connected properly. Well, back to the basics I thought. Lets get the son of a bitch to post. I stripped out everything but the CPU/heatsink.

And ... well it turned ON!!!

But no post, in fact the power button only seemed to work once and after that I would have to flip the PSU off. I quickly went in with my nose, and nothing seemed to be burning so I was completely at a loss. I dropped into a search and the only real suggestion I found was the 4 part test on cardboard - mobo + cpu + speaker + psu. Well pretty much what I had already tried but ... out of the box. Since I did take the thing out once i could have made the mistake of putting in wrong (look at this point I was pretty agitated). I decided to take a break, watch a movie.





I resumed with a spare PSU, who's ATX connector was 4 deep (see picture) opposed to the 3 deep of my other PSU (it did work mind you). Well it worked, and so next time your in a similar situation ... well remember not to panic.

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