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I give up! I bought the new Lian-Li case I always wanted, plus an AlphaPal 8045 heatsink and moved everything to the new case. I'm having one major and one minor difficulty.

The major one is that I keep causing electrical problems. I put the case together last week and when I was done I plugged it in and burned up my rheobus. My bad! I was not used to those mobo stays (or whatever you call them) that you have to pinch to attach to the mainboard. I pick up the case and dragged it to my friend's shop. He tests the eqipment and says "dope, you put these in wrong." He turns them around and tells me I'm good to go, all parts check out.

I ordered a fanbus and when it arrived I cut a window and then tried again. As I connected various components I fired up the PC and each thing worked. The lights all worked, the fans all worked, the fanbus worked and the switches worked. Then I plugged the monitor into the sucker and turned it on. First I get the screen that asks if I want to start windows in the normal way. My mouse and my keyboard were not plugged in so I shut it down, plugged them in and started it up again. Damned if I didn't smell burning. In 2 seconds it was off and it does not seem like any harm was done to components. NOW WHAT? What the heck am I doing wrong?

The minor problem is that I bought a temp. gauge made by Lian-Li out of a 5 1/4 bezel, made 2 holes and connected toggle switches to a 3 1/2 bay and used a template to use another bezel for the fan bus. They all work but none of them snap into the bay as they should and there are no holes that match the case where I can put in screws. This way they wobble. Problems, problems. Any advice accepted.

Sounds like your grounding out somewhere. We had a motor at work that kept blowing the heaters.... If ya know industrial wiring ya know what im talking about. these are little devices that have a soldier type stuff in them that when the heaters get too hot from the load that they melt and kick the breaker. When the solder cools, you can then reset the breaker. But the reason we kept burning them up was becasue the motor was bad and then when we got the motor was replaced, I put the cover back on the panel and the one and only screw went right into one of the three lead wired @ 220Volts WOW what a nice shiney bright light.....

What im getting at is that its possible that you may have done the same thing kinda. and this case is 100% aluminum. Somewhere your getting a ground. If ya have a volt meter around check the Ohms on the case and one lead to the different molex connectors comming from the PSU....and insoect the mouse and keyboard cables.....and check the ps2 outlets for a ground...or USB whatever your using.

I hope i understood this correctly and this is what your looking for.

Hitting the Esc key wont help ya in this case .. just a little something to get your mind off the case of the exploding lian-li....

it booted ok w/out the mouse and keyboard....my $$$$ is on the fact that when you connected the mouse/keyboard you wiggled them to get them in....moved the motherboard and now it is grounding. i would try booting again w/out the mouse/keyboard and see if it works. OR, to be extra safe, check the motherboard and make sure it is SECURE and properly mounted to the standoffs.


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just a lil tip i do on every system I build...

tear a small square off of a corrugated box and slide the piece between the motherboard and mobo tray.... 4"x4" is a good size...

I mixed and matched all your suggestions. I removed the mobo and one of those metal things MIGHT have been a bit loose. I stuck cardboard under there (good idea) and then booted w/o mouse and keyboard, then with them. So far so good. Attached the monitor and got a cmos checksum error. Then reset cmos with the little jumper, pulled out and reincerted PSU. Started again and made proper settings in CMOS. Windows came up with missing files (when it rains it pours). Set it to boot from CD and repaired Windows and went back to A GOOD RESTORE POINT (IT'S XP). Now Windows works so I started attaching fans one at a time, then fanbus, then light switches. Still to do is make it all neat and pray.