P4C800E Deluxe Won't Start !!!!

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Malam

I am building a system with Asus P4C800E Deluxe. After installing the
motherboard, I turned the power on but nothing ! The fans did not turn
- nothing at all. I am not using any special setup just two
harddrives,and the following:

Antec True power 550W
Intel P4 3.06 533MHZ
2 x 521 OZ 2 DDR

Please help, what can I check before taking the whole thing apart
again. Everything was working ok with a P4B800 Deluxe which I just
gave to a friend. All I did was swap the motherboard.

Thanks
 
Malam said:
I am building a system with Asus P4C800E Deluxe. After installing the
motherboard, I turned the power on but nothing ! The fans did not turn
- nothing at all. I am not using any special setup just two
harddrives,and the following:

Antec True power 550W
Intel P4 3.06 533MHZ
2 x 521 OZ 2 DDR

Please help, what can I check before taking the whole thing apart
again. Everything was working ok with a P4B800 Deluxe which I just
gave to a friend. All I did was swap the motherboard.

Thanks
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Check that the power switch is connected to the correct two pins
on the PANEL header.

Paul
 
Whenever you replace the motherboard in an XP OS computer with a different
chipset motherboard (which you've done), then you MUST reformat the
harddrive and do a fresh install of the OS. Otherwise you will get ongoing
Registry errors and data corruption.
 
Thanks Dave:

I have been wondering how I could check my system for registry errors.
The system appears to be working OK with the previous OS - Windows XP.
I am tempted to leave it as is, but I'm I'm sure since its running ok
- or appears to be.
 
DaveW said:
Whenever you replace the motherboard in an XP OS computer with a different
chipset motherboard (which you've done), then you MUST reformat the
harddrive and do a fresh install of the OS. Otherwise you will get
ongoing Registry errors and data corruption.
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DaveW,

Enlighten me. Provide *the* link to Microsoft's web site where it indicates
"you MUST reformat the harddrive and do a fresh install of the OS" for a
motherboard replacement.

Maybe then I'll believe you.
 
Not true. I have replaced many motherboards by just booting the system
and letting windows configure the new hardware. It doesn't always work
the first time. Sometimes I have to boot 3 times before all the device
drivers are loaded and reconfigured.

If you can't boot at all here are a couple of suggestions from
Microsoft. The Windows 2003 document also applies to Windows XP.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;824125

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;249694
Hope this helps...
 
Thanks guys. To be on the safe side, I did reformat and installed
Windows-XP clean! I feel its better to do this that to start running
into problems later on that I cannot trace or link with the new
motherboard installation. Your help is appreciated.
 
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