Gaming Problem with trying to connect CPU and PSU cables to ASUS P7H55-M LE

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I just bought an Evercool EC-DF002 fan adapter which supports up to 5 fans and includes a molex to connect to the power supply.

What exactly will I connect with the fan adapter and where will it connect to exactly?

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As I illustrated, working from the bottom to the top, that bottom 4 pin female lead is gonna go to cha_fan on your mobo. The big 4 pin (2 pin really) connector gets hooked to any of your 4 pin molex PSU leads. The other 3 connectors are where your fans plug in.

Edit - also, not sure where you got 5 fans, it only supports 3. If you got it off of newegg, their page lists that it has "5 connectors" which may be where you were mislead.

Thanks for the illustration. But man do I feel so stupid right now lol...
 
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Happens to the best of us, eh? ;)

What I'm mainly concerned about is why the mobo won't power on. All of your front panel leads, save for any usb/firewire/audio leads are hooked up to one header block on the mobo, right? And they're all hooked to the right spot.

Yes, everything is connected in the right place, I triple checked the manual just to be safe. The motherboard is receiving power since the green led lights up when I switch the power switch on. I only 3 power supply cables left :one for the graphics card and two floppy drive cables with molex connectors.
 

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Question: when you press the on button (after a hard power cycle), do the fans spin at all?

And because I feel stupid from reading all of this... A hard power cycle is where you flip the off switch on the PSU, unplugs the power cord, replug it and flip the switch back on.

EDIT: damn you, plasma ninja!
 
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EDIT: damn you, plasma ninja!

Hey, you can take it from here if you want, I gotta get me some sleep. Ciao ;)

Edit - also, best hard power cycle (for desktops) in my experience is just to switch the psu off, hit the power button, and then turn the psu back on.

Laptops, remove battery, hold down power button/switch for ~10 secs, then re-insert battery.
 

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When you push the power button on your computer, does the cpu fan spin up or nudge for about a second? Or is it completely still?

Also, does your case have a chassis speaker? I don't see one on that pic in the first post. Does it make any sort of a beep?

The configuration I had before (with the floppy drive power supply cable connected to the chassis connector), it only nudged for a second and turned off.
 

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If the fans only nudged for a second, then there's a problem with the power circuitry. This ranges from the PSU being unable to provide the voltage to boot the system, to a problem with the power phasing (the VRMs that surround the CPU), to a fault within BIOS itself. Since the chassis fan header is directly connected to BIOS, this could be it (and what everybody refers to when they say you've fried your motherboard). It could also be a short circuit (if you weren't careful when putting it together)l

The next step would be to clear CMOS. It's too much effort to check online for a guide for your specific motherboard from my iPad in bed, so I'll leave that to you. Better motherboards would have a clear CMOS button that would do it straight away. Others have a header where you just switch the jumper for a few seconds then switch it back. The traditional way is to take out the CMOS battery and remove any power source for 2-48 hours, depending on whose guide you follow, in order to reset all valued in the BIOS ROM to factory defaults.

Edit: it will be detailed in your manual.
 

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When you push the power button on your computer, does the cpu fan spin up or nudge for about a second? Or is it completely still?

Also, does your case have a chassis speaker? I don't see one on that pic in the first post. Does it make any sort of a beep?

The configuration I had before (with the floppy drive power supply cable connected to the chassis connector), it only nudged for a second and turned off.
That it turned off after that is good. Fact of the matter is you were putting power on stuff that shouldn't be getting power. In essence you were creating short circuits. Once more, try removing most of the stuff (especially your fan madness) and just hook up the CPU fan to a 4 pin CPU header (which is good practice anyway) and then hit the power button. Meaning connected should be:
24 pin ATX, 4-8 pin ATX, CPU fan & heatsink to the board with it's 4 pin CPU header, the CPU, RAM, possibly a video card but not even required, front panel header pins and if available a PC speaker.

If that looks normal --> rejoice, you did not kill your hardware in all likelyhood.
 

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When you push the power button on your computer, does the cpu fan spin up or nudge for about a second? Or is it completely still?

Also, does your case have a chassis speaker? I don't see one on that pic in the first post. Does it make any sort of a beep?

The configuration I had before (with the floppy drive power supply cable connected to the chassis connector), it only nudged for a second and turned off.
That it turned off after that is good. Fact of the matter is you were putting power on stuff that shouldn't be getting power. In essence you were creating short circuits. Once more, try removing most of the stuff (especially your fan madness) and just hook up the CPU fan to a 4 pin CPU header (which is good practice anyway) and then hit the power button. Meaning connected should be:
24 pin ATX, 4-8 pin ATX, CPU fan & heatsink to the board with it's 4 pin CPU header, the CPU, RAM, possibly a video card but not even required, front panel header pins and if available a PC speaker.

If that looks normal --> rejoice, you did not kill your hardware in all likelyhood.

Will I have to clear the Cmos like Originality told me to do so first? And what about the fan adapter that I bought?
 

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Anyway, I did what you guys told me to do (Think it was scorpio) and Ive managed to boot the PC without plugging in the hdd or other SATA devices. Whew, Im glad my stupid mistake didn't cost me my board... It it safe to plug in the SATA devices to my motherboard now? Or will I have to do something else?
 

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I would say, if you're wanting to be completely careful, plug in one device at a time, to their correct power supplies/connections, seeing if after each addition you get to the same boot screen. This would allow you to detect if possibly some hardware is causing an issue; but as you were plugging things in places not supposed to, your problem likely lay in that.

One device at a time will let you see if something stalls your system; all at once lets you only know there's a problem, not necessarily what.
 
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Anyway, I did what you guys told me to do (Think it was scorpio) and Ive managed to boot the PC without plugging in the hdd or other SATA devices. Whew, Im glad my stupid mistake didn't cost me my board... It it safe to plug in the SATA devices to my motherboard now? Or will I have to do something else?
Ok, after telling you that three times (among other people) and getting you to actually BOOT the board you manage to get my name wrong which you can read from your own quote or pretty much on any page in this discussion? Good luck have fun. I am however glad for you that you didn't wreck your hardware, that would have been a waste indeed (no sarcasm inteded).

Do what Celice said, that would be what you should do now. He or she is giving perfectly proper advice.
 

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Oh sorry about getting your username wrong. I've been using my phone's web browser which makes it somewhat hard to read clearly. And it's also somewhat difficult to remember every post so please forgive me. And thanks for all the help, including everyone else on this thread!
 

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