<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>You have a 24-pin connector. Why are you only using 20 pins? Does your power supply have a 4-pin connector to go into the remaining 4 pins? If so, look at the power supply documentation to verify that it is supposed to go there. You might need to replace the power supply.<br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "AGSCalabrese" <agscal@gmail.com><br>To: "CLUE technical discussion" <clue-tech@cluedenver.org><br>Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 5:10:44 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain<br>Subject: Fwd: [clue-tech] I just bought a motherboard, CPU and memory and something is DOA<br><br>I took my parts to MicroCenter.<br>For their own reasons, they replaced every part ( qty1 MB, qty1 CPU , <br>qty2 RAM )<br>Then they tested the combination and said it was good. I left <br>MicroCenter carrying the MB with<br>CPU and RAM installed.<br><br>Back at the ranch, I installed the MB/RAM/CPU in a box. I added a new <br>300W supply ( 20 pin power connector ).<br>The MB is a 24 pin power connector. See photos at http://oh-god.com:5080/dir/zeus/<br>I connected a monitor. I added an internal speaker.<br>I turned on the power. the fan spun, and nothing else happened. No <br>beep. I switched monitors. Nothing happened.<br>I added a video card. Nothing happened. I added a keyboard ..... <br>nothing.<br><br>What now ?<br><br>Gus<br><br><br>> On Jul 18, 2009, at 5:32 PM, Rita Gibson wrote:<br>><br>> They will bench test your parts right there at Micro Center, I'm <br>> surprised they didn't offer to do it before you left. They usually <br>> do when you buy a motherboard.<br>><br>> Rita Gibson<br>><br>> AGSCalabrese wrote:<br>>> The CPU is a dual-core socket 775 2.5 GHz Pentium<br>>> The memory is two sticks of 1GB DDR2 PC2-5300<br>>> The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA G31M ES2L<br>>><br>>> I bought them at MicroCenter.<br>>> I installed the CPU and the memory and a speaker and plugged in a <br>>> monitor.<br>>><br>>> Results: No display on monitor, no beeps from the speaker.<br>>> The power switch starts the fan. At first I could also turn the <br>>> fan off by pressing the power switch for 5 seconds. No longer.<br>>><br>>> I am looking for some help whereby I drop by and try my parts in <br>>> someone's system.<br>>><br>>> Best<br>>> Gus S. Calabrese<br>>> _______________________________________________<br>><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>clue-tech mailing list<br>clue-tech@cluedenver.org<br>http://www.cluedenver.org/mailman/listinfo/clue-tech<br></div></body></html>