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There's nothing special about the screws, No 8 x 3/8" self-tappers will do. I'm sure B & Q or Homebase will sell small packets of them for an outrageous price :D
Or you can get them here for sure, but you only get free delivery on orders over £45:
www.screwfix.com
Little note on the screws. You may check with your local computer repair shop and see if they'll give or sell you some at a very low cost. Usually they've got like a huge bucket of them they can't get rid of. I know I got like a pound of various screws, motherboard stand-offs, etc. by just going into a local shop (when I was in California) and offering a buck or two for them and the guy just shoveled them into a bag and gave them to me.
As far as the power supply not working, that sounds unusual for Enermax. What kind of processor do you have again? Do you have to connect two main power cables to the motherboard like with Pentium4 motherboards? The name and type of power connections escapes me at the moment and I'm too lazy to look them up, but most newer motherboards need the power connection with like 15 or so in two rows all together and another one with like just 4 wires. Make sure you have all of that hooked up correctly. Also, make sure you didn't accidently unhook your power switch from your motherboard when you were installing your power supply. I know one time I accidently did that and sat there for like an hour trying to figure out why the computer didn't turn on when I pressed the power button (oh, whoops the connection to the motherboard got pulled out, duh).
Anyway, if worse comes to worst I'm sure there is a full warranty for that with Dead On Arrival. Send the sucker back and get another if you're sure it's dead.
Good Luck
The Mobo that I have is a Socket A ECS LV7MM (something like that) mobo with one main power connector needed from the PSU to get things running. Ive tried connecting my new Enermax PSU to the Mobo like I did with the old PSU and I get nothing. I dont think that anythings come lose as when I connect my old PSU up in exactly the same way it starts up no problem.
What do you mean by setting the voltage selector? Because that I havn't tried.
I'm quite worried about sending it back as they do charge you if they dont find anything wrong with the return.
Dang I'm probably screwing up really simply here. This is the biggest job Ive ever done to a PC as I'm a bit of a newbie to the world of computing. All I know that when I connect my new PSU up it aint working while my old one does!
The voltage selector is on the back of the PS, it allows you to switch between 110V and 220V, depending on your household current.Quote:
Originally posted by BlIsTeRpAcK
What do you mean by setting the voltage selector? Because that I havn't tried.
Nope my PS doesnt have one of those. Household current isnt an issue here-probably an American thing.
Hmmm....maybe it has an automatic selector inside. 220V is the standard voltage in most European countries, and 110V is stateside. YOU just have to deal with different plugs in Europe ;)Quote:
Originally posted by BlIsTeRpAcK
Nope my PS doesnt have one of those. Household current isnt an issue here-probably an American thing.
Sounds like a dead PS. Time to test their service.
Did you have a look at that link I posted above? It shows you how to start up the PSU without it being installed in the PC - if you can't get it to start in the way that they show, then you can be sure it's dead.
Yeah, that link that SuperSparks listed was very good at explaining how to test your power supply to see if it's dead or not. Here it is again if you didn't see it before How to Test PSU Voltages.
Ok I tested my PSU and nothing, I'm now pretty sure its dead. So I've rung up Overclockers and talked to one of their technical supervisors, told him the problem, what I've done and he had no suggestions. So I have sent back my PSU and Overclockers will ship a new one straight out once they recieve the old one.
Ill tell you what happens when I get my new PSU (I'm expecting around thursday-friday), hope that this problem isnt just me screwing up otherwise.....
P.s. I manage to get a big bag of computer screws from PC repair shop for a pretty decent price.
Ok, thought I'd give an update on what’s going on for those of you who'd like to know.
I finally got the replacement PS yesterday and it works, I was right about the other PS being dead as the companies testers found the same thing-just my luck that an Enermax PS blows on me.....
Anyway the new PS is great, the new case is great (ohhh the pretty lights) and the fans aren’t as noisy as I thought. Ive only got six fans in there at the moment and the temperature of the CPU has fallen from an average of 51c to 36c and my board temp from 38c to 26c so im pretty happy, plus I can now overclock my Radeon without it frying.
Only problems so far are that I cant get the power and HDD lights to come on plus I cant get the headphone jacks to work with the onboard soundcard, both are probably problems with loose wiring that I will sort out later (I cant be bothered yet....heh).
So thanks to all of you that offered your interest and help. I have now managed to take my PC apart and rebuild it thanks the people on this site; Nice one :)
Glad to hear it! :D
I, myself just ordered an Enermax 300w from Texas. I'm waiting on it to arrive in about five days. Hope you get the HDD and Power LEDs figured out, as well as your audio. But sounds like everything turned out alright in the end.
Thanks for letting us know.
On your hdd and power lights,,have you tried reversing the connectors? Many mobo manuals aren't very clear on this config...
Glad to hear you got the main prob sorted tho'...:)
Congrats - those temps certainly sound very good.
Ridge is right on - reverse the connectors, your case lights should come on then. The description from the MOBO, respectively case maker are almost always wrong in my experience.
No idea as to the headphones, matbe someone else pitches in...
Enjoy :)
And just to clarify what they were saying, reversing them doesn't mean switching the spots of the HDD and Power LEDs (you may have known that, but just in case) ;) . They're talking about flipping them around so that the wires are reversed. I've run into this a ton of times myself. The good thing is that it won't hurt anything if they are backwards, just keep messing with them (i.e. trying them one or two spots over, forwards, backwards, etc) until they work. I've had some motherboard manuals that were waaay off as far as the locations for the HDD and Power LEDs were concerned. Hopefully that's all it is, since LEDs rarely go bad.
Good Luck!
Ok I have another update, I’ve managed to fix the HDD and power LED just by reversing the connectors as you said :D However I haven’t managed to get the sound going properly yet after much fiddling about- I can only get sound through one headphone\speaker at a time (no it isn’t a problem with the headphones). I’m thinking that the cable linking the 'phone jacks to the mobo are damaged. To be that honest I’m not to bothered as I was thinking of getting a half decent soundcard (with a headphone jack in the back) anyway, so this is just the excuse!
Another question (this is the last one, honest!!)
What sound card do you recommend? I’m pretty sure most of you will now say "Audigy2!", however I cant really afford £75 on a soundcard; I’m looking to spend £30-45. I’ve heard some good things about Hercules' soundcards.....