I *think* I found it. I am using the screw hole beside the IDE busses to hold the board in place, and I was using too broad a screw head and it was shorting across the two busses. (can that be right?) > I finally found a new case cheap enough to try the experiment. $9.95 new at > Fry's with 300w supply. Got the board in, got the power hooked up Get a > bong, get a cursor, but get nothing through either IDE channel, just the > blinking ? disk and I've tried a pretty large set of variations/combos > including single drive master on the HD that was in the G# tower and the > original 24x cd the same, but no booting past the ? the drives spin up, > clikety clack and stop. Not getting some signal. Got the scsi bus to see a > drive and tell me it was not the right disk for the machine. Any ideas? >> It needs to be an ATX power supply which has remote power-ON, and that >> means an ATX power supply which does *not* have a power switch. >> >> Get one which is about 300 watts or better. >> >> These will in all likelihood have extra cables for Pentium chips. These >> are internally tied to +12 volts, +5 volts and to ground. >> >> You can use these as extra drive cables if you carefully segregate them >> and attach new Amp Mate-N-Lock 4-pin connectors. >> >> Save a +12 and a ground for use in powering additional cooling fans.
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