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[Direwulff]

Chokladkakan, on 23 January 2013 - 03:04 PM, said:

That's not strictly speaking true: the power switch only completes a circuit, the polarity doesn't matter. If it did you wouldn't be able to start the computer by connecting the two power pins with a screwdriver.

Funny I was going to recomend the screwdriver tactic but as I read down it got started up.  
Also if you can use a different power rail for your graphics card vs other devices.  I have mine on its own rail as it is usually the heaviest draw.

[Chokladkakan]

The Corsair TX650 only has a single 12V rail. It should be fine unless something's broken anyway; the current generation graphics cards aren't very power hungry at all, especially when idle.

[Direwulff]

Chokladkakan, on 23 January 2013 - 03:18 PM, said:

The Corsair TX650 only has a single 12V rail. It should be fine unless something's broken anyway; the current generation graphics cards aren't very power hungry at all, especially when idle.

Funny how fast the equipemtn changes.  Mine is a power draining machine

[Erianx]

I noticed in your checklist of things you did, you didn't include connecting a cable from your power source to your graphics card. You might have just forgotten to add it, or I could be getting blind. I can't tell whether your graphics card required it or not (Mine does, and it's pretty similar to yours). You'd be looking for a six pin usually at the top of the card.

[The Ugly Ducky]

Yes, I forgot to mention, the graphics card will not be coming for another couple weeks so I decided to go ahead and build it without and add it later.

[The Ugly Ducky]

I rebuilt it from scratch, everything went smoothly this time, thanks for all the help guys.

[Erianx]

Man. Sexy case. Glad everything went well!

[Direwulff]

Gratz on a successful system build.  A lot of times when that happens it was just a wire the didn't make a good connection

[Kaaos-CoS]

Erianx, on 23 January 2013 - 09:31 PM, said:

Man. Sexy case. Glad everything went well!

Super Sexy! I like that too!

[Chappy]

Sounds like you had it right the first time, just one of the plugs didn't connect properly.

Glad to see it all worked out