[Hybr!d]

You only need the main big plug and the 4pin if your board supports it, thats it.

[buchanan]

Originally Posted by Dave Hybrid

You only need the main big plug and the 4pin if your board supports it, thats it.

thanks

[Wolfeymole]

If that don't work test the cpu as stand alone pulling all the connectors off the board and hardware.
If it's fan don't spin it's goosed.

[buchanan]

one other thing

when i fresh installed i didn't install the raid drivers from floppy (normally i have to do this to get it to install windows but this time some how it successfully installed without)

i did this and let it continue to install without when it did because i don't have a raid (only 1 hard drive) just a raid controller which came with the pc so i thought it would be ok.

as a side note i could not identify any raid controller inside my pc, i don't know what it looks like,

windows installed fine and completely so i assumed it made no difference but the next day this happened so could this have affected the pc?

[alex]

The 6-pin plug is the pci-e power plug for a pci-express graphics card.

I'm typing a full troubleshooter for you, might take me 20 mins or so but if you can bear with me and then try it it might/should save you a lot of hassle having to continually post.

[alex]

Originally Posted by buchanan

one other thing

when i fresh installed i didn't install the raid drivers from floppy (normally i have to do this to get it to install windows but this time some how it successfully installed without)

i did this and let it continue to install without when it did because i don't have a raid (only 1 hard drive) just a raid controller which came with the pc so i thought it would be ok.

as a side note i could not identify any raid controller inside my pc, i don't know what it looks like,

windows installed fine and completely so i assumed it made no difference but the next day this happened so could this have affected the pc?

It's very co-incidental but the fact it's not even P.O.S.T'ing (Power On Self Test) suggests another problem.

[buchanan]

Originally Posted by alex

The 6-pin plug is the pci-e power plug for a pci-express graphics card.

I'm typing a full troubleshooter for you, might take me 20 mins or so but if you can bear with me and then try it it might/should save you a lot of hassle having to continually post.

nice one thanks alex

[Hybr!d]

It will power on (post) without hard drives, CD-Roms or even a graphics card connected so trust me it isnt RAID that is causing it or a dodgy XP install.

UNPLUG everything except the PSU, RAM, graphics card and CPU and see if it powers on.

[buchanan]

another thing i did was take out the motherboard battery (cr2032) for a minute or so.

i did this just because i was getting frustrated and i read it would reset bios.
i had been playing around with the bios to get it to boot from my windows cd the night before so i tried this as a last resort (that day anyway) just in case i had messed them up

it made no difference at the time anyway but is this a stupid thing to do?

[buchanan]

Originally Posted by Dave Hybrid

It will power on (post) without hard drives, CD-Roms or even a graphics card connected so trust me it isnt RAID that is causing it or a dodgy XP install.

UNPLUG everything except the PSU, RAM, graphics card and CPU and see if it powers on.

everything including wires coming from front usb's and fans?
sorry to be a pain but most of this is very new to me