Need installation assistance. Have an EMachines T3958. The power supply went on the fritz and fried the MOBO. Said to self, might as well upgrade a little so bought the following:
ATX 450 power supply
ASUS M2A-VM AM2 AMD 690G Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64x2 5000+Brisbane 2.6Hz Socket AM2 65W Dual Core Processor Model ADO50000DOBOX
Patriot 2GB 240-Pin SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC206400) Desktop Memory Model PSD22G8002
Thermal Grease (wasn't needed as CPU cooling fan already had it)
All from New Egg except power supply which I purchased locally.
Used the EMachines case and installed everything with no problem with these exceptions:
The old MOBO had 2 IDE sockets versus only one on the new MOBO. Will either need longer IDE ribbon or a new case as cannot hook up the CD ROM in case (can externally). Power LED light indicator pins in new board has a space between pins versus pins consecutive on old board (not a real problem). The new power supply has a 20 Pin EATXPWR plug-in, new MB has 24 socket socket (per MOBO manual this is OK).
Everything is connected properly (pretty sure) and power light is on MOBO when power source in on, but nothing else, no boot!!! Have not changed any jumpers on new MOBO. It should boot! Any suggestions (have checked, double checked and triple checked everything).
BTW, yesterday asked my group of golfers if anyone had an old machine they were throwing away (looking for a longer IDE ribbon). One said he his sister who vacated her home and had two in the garage which she was tossing. Went over and took both without really looking at them. One was a tower case pretty well stripped, no ribbons. Second one was an EMachines T2692. Plugged it in and it worked (not good to throw away computer with data on the HD). Swapped HD's out and mine wasn't fried thank goodness. Writing this appeal for help on that machine with my HD.
