Rampage 3 Extreme power issue

[step1984]

I built my PC about two years ago and it has worked fine. I just bought a new 1TB Hard drive and tried to install it last night. I must have hooked it up incorrectly because it turned off a few seconds after pushing the power button.

I unplugged all of the hard drives and only plugged in the new one and the old one with Windows installed. (the third that is not hooked up right now is the backup drive.) The power button on the front of the PC will not work, but the start button on the MOBO will turn on the PC and everything works fine.

Is there a problem with the power supply? The light on the back of the power supply comes on when it is plugged in, so I'm not thinking that is the problem since the computer runs. I just can't use the power button as of last night when I installed the hard drive.

Any help would be great! (just making sure-- if a cord from the power supply has multiple hard drive hook ups, can I only have one HD to each main cord?)

Thanks,

Stephen

[HalloweenWeed]

step1984 wrote:
I built my PC about two years ago and it has worked fine. I just bought a new 1TB Hard drive and tried to install it last night. I must have hooked it up incorrectly because it turned off a few seconds after pushing the power button.

How long, after this, did you give the board to power up? The double-pump is normal on all modern computers nowadays after a power supply disconnection. If you shut off power before it continues, you won't get anywhere.

[step1984]

What do you mean by "double-pump"? Multiple hookups?

I left it hooked up for at least a minute after it shut off. Then tried the MOBO start button. After turning off the machine, I tried the power button and it still wouldn't turn on.

[HalloweenWeed]

Do you have to turn off the PSU before the board will attempt to power on again after trying once? Perhaps for as much as 45min.? If not, keep trying dozens of times. It could be the 'ol "cold-boot" issue (that many R2E had).

[HalloweenWeed]

"double-pump" = off-on-off-on

[step1984]

Oh, I see. I'll try it tonight when I get home. Any other suggestions if this isn't the case?

[HalloweenWeed]

I really need to know your FULL system specs in order to help more.

[step1984]

Since it has been sitting all night and all day by the time I get home, lets hope that it turns on.

Is it correct that the power supply should be fine if the light on the back of it comes on? It runs (the fan on the PSU) while the system is on from the MOBO start button.

[step1984]

Since it has been sitting all night and all day by the time I get home, lets hope that it turns on.

Is it correct that the power supply should be fine if the light on the back of it comes on? It runs (the fan on the PSU) while the system is on from the MOBO start button.

[step1984]

I haven't tried to turn it on with the PSU switch off. Maybe I'm not understanding that correctly, because it doesn't sound as if that would allow power to anything at all.

(FYI- my knowlegde of building a PC was enough to get the below working for my needs.) I know enough to get by, but not a lot about specifics of specs.)

RAIDMAX SMILODON ATX-612WB Black/Silver 1.0mm SECC Steel ATX Mid Tower Foldout MB Computer Case

ASUS Rampage III Extreme LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

SAPPHIRE Toxic 100282-2GTXSR Radeon HD 5850 (Cypress Pro) 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX ...

XCLIO STABLEPOWER 1000W 1000W ATX CrossFire Ready Active PFC Power Supply

Intel Core i7-950 Bloomfield 3.06GHz LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor BX80601950

CORSAIR XMS 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMX8GX3M2A1600C9

2 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST3320613AS 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

~~~Hard Drive installed last night~~~

Western Digital WD Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive