start up issues

[simple_inhibition]

hey guys, i need a little bit of help. my desktop is having some troubles. it refuses to start :P ive reset the cmos per dfi's manual. now when i turn the power on the psu i should see an orange light at the bottom left of the motherboard and an orange led near the ram. well i see the led at the bottom left of the motherboard, but the one by the ram doesnt come on either. or sometimes the bottom left led will blink and the led by the ram will blink very faintly. i cant turn off my pc or its a PITA to get it going again. any ideas?

[Capper]

pull the battery for about 10 minutes and try again

[simple_inhibition]

rgr that will try. also should i flip that dipswitch in there as well?

[Capper]

sure, won't hurt

[simple_inhibition]

still a no go

[gvblake22]

Do the fans spin up? Do the optical drives open?

[Jokerswild]

I imagine you've checked all connections and reseated the ram.

[simple_inhibition]

nothing. its like its not getting power to intialize the system and i think that led by the ram is telling me

[Tyreal]

Don't power supplies have a feature where the power has to match with something before it will send power to the system? Thats what there is sometimes a slight stall between the moment you push the bottom and the moment the fans/components start up?

Could it be that this feature is stopping your system from recieving power possibly because it is dying or recieving power from a faulty outlet?

[gvblake22]

Take the main 24-pin ATX power connector and 4-pin 12V power connectors out of the motherboard and unplug the power cables from the HDD and video card.

Now find a paper clip and bend it out straight. Now if you are looking at the main 20 or 24-pin power connector locate green wire and the pin connector it goes into. Insert one end of the paper clip into the pin attached to the green wire and the other end of the paper clip into the pin next to it attached to a black wire. It shouldn't even matter which black wire, I usually do the one right next to the green or two over from the green. Now, with the paper clip insterted into the green and black pins, plug the power cable from the wall into the PSU and flip the PSU on. Do the fans spin up? Does the fan on the PSU spin up?