Today I switched my case from poorly ventilated case to a well ventilated Antec P-180. That was the smart thing I thought to make sure my very hot running computer would stay stable.
My specs....
Antec SP-400 (400Watt PSU)
Asus P5P800
Intel 3.0 Ghz 530J
Zalman 9500 CPU Cooler
1GB Corsair ValueRam
eVGA 6800 Vanilla VC
5 Maxtor Hdds
The one thing I had to do to make this switch work that might be the problem is I had to manually increase the length of the ATX power cord using wire crimps. The way the case is laid out has the PSU on the bottom. The Asus board I have puts the ATX all the way on the top.
When I power on the case, all the fans spin, the HDD's start up and the fan on the GPU runs. The HDD's do not begin to load windows, since I hear no noise of the sort. I ran the box for a while and the proc did heat up as I could feel the heat from it blowing off. The ram never left the slots on the mobo during the switch. I also get no error beeps from the mobo
All the parts in this PC worked fine before the switch. There is no situation where the PSU can't handle this load of hardware. So what are my likely problems here? I'm at a loss. I'm going to try to get alternate hardware to test this out.
Is it my crimp job? Does that ATX power connector affect video?
Did I damage something in the move?
Can anyone think of anything that I may have overlooked during the move that would cause no video?
Why isn't my HDD booting into windows?
I'm not a novice and this PC I built in the first place. I will post the results of my testing ASAP.
Things I have tried are...
I tried the other output ports on the video card to see for video. When I unplugged the power from the GPU it beeped like death when I put it back in, the beeping stoppped. I have attempted to unplug other parts that are using the power to rule out an issue with power consumption.
Thanks everyone!!! Please help!
My specs....
Antec SP-400 (400Watt PSU)
Asus P5P800
Intel 3.0 Ghz 530J
Zalman 9500 CPU Cooler
1GB Corsair ValueRam
eVGA 6800 Vanilla VC
5 Maxtor Hdds
The one thing I had to do to make this switch work that might be the problem is I had to manually increase the length of the ATX power cord using wire crimps. The way the case is laid out has the PSU on the bottom. The Asus board I have puts the ATX all the way on the top.
When I power on the case, all the fans spin, the HDD's start up and the fan on the GPU runs. The HDD's do not begin to load windows, since I hear no noise of the sort. I ran the box for a while and the proc did heat up as I could feel the heat from it blowing off. The ram never left the slots on the mobo during the switch. I also get no error beeps from the mobo
All the parts in this PC worked fine before the switch. There is no situation where the PSU can't handle this load of hardware. So what are my likely problems here? I'm at a loss. I'm going to try to get alternate hardware to test this out.
Is it my crimp job? Does that ATX power connector affect video?
Did I damage something in the move?
Can anyone think of anything that I may have overlooked during the move that would cause no video?
Why isn't my HDD booting into windows?
I'm not a novice and this PC I built in the first place. I will post the results of my testing ASAP.
Things I have tried are...
I tried the other output ports on the video card to see for video. When I unplugged the power from the GPU it beeped like death when I put it back in, the beeping stoppped. I have attempted to unplug other parts that are using the power to rule out an issue with power consumption.
Thanks everyone!!! Please help!