No PC startup

[Denelic]

I am building my frist computer and have encountered a probelm I cannot find an answer too. Here is the situation, I have conencted everything according to the manual that came with my mobo (CPU, video card, disk drives, HD, ect). When I connected the PC to an outlet and monitor i hit the front panel power button. Nothing. I opened it up and rechecked the wires leading from the front panel to the mobo and made sure everything went where needed. tried again and nothing. Any tips or comments on this would be very helpful. However, I do know my PCU is working because the chip fan is spinning with no problems.

[Whyzman]

Hello Denelic,
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I would suggest my canned spiel for initial building:

For new systems it would be wise to barebones boot the system initially. This is best done on a non-conductive surface such as a piece of cardboard on a table.

Connections from the case/power to the motherboard are accomplished outside of the case on the table.

Barebones is only the RAM, Video Card, Monitor, P/S 2 Keyboard...and of course the CPU>Heatsink>Fan...

See if you can make it through POST with this barebones approach...

Reboot, setting the BIOS to boot from floppy first...usually, the (0) choice, save and exit...shutdown.

If this worked add the floppy drive.

If the system booted again successfully, shutdown and reboot using a RAM tester such as: http://www.memtest86.com (http://www.memtest86.com/)...these are self booting.

If all is well, shut down and add the harddrive. If the reboot is successful recognizing the harddrive, I then shutdown and reboot using a floppy with the Harddrive's diagnostics (downloaded from the manufacturer's site)...these are also self booting...

If all systems are go, proceed to add an optical drive capable of loading your operating system...

The concept is to load one hardware device at a time which provides for troubleshooting as well as assembly of the computer. If, at any time you encounter a no boot situation, the last hardware item you added is the problem.