2 Hard drives

RST=Reset
PWR=Power
LED usually refers to Power Led or HDD Led (Hard Disk Drive Led)

I put an old motherboard into its old case and I connected all of the power cords back in ( LED, RST, PWR, Speaker, ect.) and I connected the new PSU into the motherboard.
I plugged the PSU in and nothing happened. I pressed the power button on the tower and the PSU turned on, fans and everything.
So I know for a fact that the PSU is fine.
I think I need to get a certain power switch for the motherboard...

Also, is there a little green light on every motherboard that shows that it is getting power or is that for only certain motherboard? Because I'm not seeing a little green light on the new motherboard...

I did try using screw drivers but that didn't seem to work...

ALRIGHT!
I got it to power up!!

That's great

The screwdriver option may have had to have better and longer contact, but who cares now!

The little green light, I had a lot of detail on this once, but I'll just answer your question.
No not on all motherboards

Also the LED connectors must be around the right way to work, but the PWR and RST don't matter. So if you don't see the LED activity or power, that is why.

Anyway, great news.

You can vote on my Poll too if you like: https://www.techspot.com/vb/topic98305.html
Leaving a message is good too, as the poll is anonymous.

Have a lovely day.

I might have more questions later.
Thank you so much Kimsland! You to Subcan!
You guys helped alot!

More problems...

Ok I have another problem...
Now the moniter isn't doing anything.
The light on the moniter is just blinking.

That was quick!

Turn off the computer
Turn off the monitor too (but usually this won't matter)
Remove the power cord from the back fully
Hold the front power on button in for 30 secs
Let go of the button
Put the power cord back in (securely)
Turn on the Monitor (if it was off)
Turn on the computer

Presto!

Oh geez...
I didn't have the ATX Power Source Connector plugged in!

Sorry about that! The stupidity of a novice computer builder... LOL!

ok everything is hooked up and ready to go!
I am at the boot menu witch says:

GeForce 6100-M9 (CU51M119 BS)

Main Processor : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+
Memory Testing : 982016K OK + 64M shared memory + 1 M TSeg memory

IDE Channel 0 Master : ST340016A 3.19
IDE Channel 0 Master : None
IDE Channel 1 Master : None
IDE Channel 1 Master : None

IDE Channel 2 Master : LITE-ON DVDRW LH-20A1L BL04
IDE Channel 3 Master : MAXTOR STM3320620AS 3.AAE

Floppy disk(s) fail (40)


Press F8 to enable System Configuration
Press F9 to Select Booting Device after POST
Press F1 to continue, DEL to enter SETUP
01/19/2007-C51MCP51-6A61HB09C-00


What should I do first??

OK so you have

1 ATA Hard Drive
and 2 SATA CD/DVD Drives

And no floppy ! (if you do have a floppy drive the data cable may be in the wrong way around)

Anyway,

Yes hit DEL (And go into CMOS)

Disable Floppy if you don't have a floppy drive

Go to the boot up sequence and select
1st Bootable Device=Cdrom (or it may actually say the CD/DVD drive)
2nd Bootable Device=HDD
3rd Bootable Device=Cdrom (or it may actually say the CD/DVD drive)

Save and Exit (F10)

Now, you should be right at the start
(by the way are you installing Windows - or is it already installed, can't remember what you said, and presently I'm in the post!!)



Allow the computer to startup

. .

OK I'm going to install Windows XP now...

Woops!

1 X ATA Hard Drive

1 X Sata DVD

1 X Sata Hard Drive

I read that wrong -- Sorry

Thats ok!
I'm actually running the Windows XP setup right now!
We'll see how it goes...

alright I got XP installed on the new hard drive!
Something is wrong with the old one though... I'll have to reinstall windows on that one tomarrow.

Thank you SOOOOOO much for your help Kimsland!!

I'f I have any more questions I'll ask!

Thanks again!

Another happy customer

Need a sound card?

Hey Kimsland,
I tried to connect speakers on the new computer but there was no sound. I went into controle panel a for some reason It wouldn't let me change anything.
No error thing came up or anything. Do I have to put in a sound card or something?

If you can't change anything, that means the sound driver is not installed.

You will need to locate the sound driver for that system