Need a little advice before powering up!!!

[tjb9269]

Just finished putting it together now I'm nervous. Specs are as follows:

Chieftec server case with 450w foxcon
Asus A7N8X deluxe rev 2
AMD 2500+ Barton retail
(2) 256 xms corsair twinx 3200llpt
Maxtor 160gb hdd w/8mb
Lite-on 52x32x52 cdrw oem
Sony 1.44 floppy
USR 56k hardware modem 2977 oem
ATI saphire radeon 9500 np
(2) 80mm sunon fans for front bottom

I left all the mobo jumpers the way they were. Hdd jumper is cable select on primary ide. cdrw jumper is master on secondary ide.The ram is in slots 1 and 3. I think all wires and stuff are correctly connected. The processer and hsf look good. Mobo is on all of the standoffs.

Is it better to start it up without the video card and modem in it?

Am I forgetting anything? This is my first build and I'm a little nervous. I've read alot of stuff about rma-ing lots of parts and or shorting something out.

Thanks for any advice, insight, and or cautions...

[Urban_Squrill]

Sounds like you have everything under control. Did you use thermal paste or did you use the thermal pad that came with the retail heatsink. I was the same way.

[Urban_Squrill]

Nice set up.

[joker_927]

HAve the video card and modem in it. Sounds right and good.

Although, why did you buy 2 x 256MB instead of 1 x 512MB?

Honestly, I think people get ripped off with a 2500+.

Oh yea, make sure you have everything SECURELY plugged in. It sucks when somthing is half plugged in and it blows up or soemthing.

Oh, and turn the master switch on the back of the power supply (if there is one) ON! I can't count the number of computers I have built, pressed the power button, and almost died when it didn't power up. Onlt then I find out I never turn the master switch ON. :LOL:

[tjb9269]

Thermal pad .

[Chiguy]

What I did for my first build was check over the connections and assembly, said a prayer and hit the power button. It worked.

I've never had a problem starting up the computer with everthing plugged in. However, powering up one step at a time (ie. just the CPU and memory first, then the video, then ... etc) is useful for troubleshooting and finding what is causing the computer not to boot.

I have the exact same motherboard and it works great. I did have to change the SATA jumper though since I wasn't using a SATA drive.

Good Luck

[Urban_Squrill]

He got 2 sticks of ram for duel channel.

[tjb9269]

I guess I better check the sata jumper...if I can find it. Thanks.

[Urban_Squrill]

I have the same board. Great one.
I dident bother with the sata jumper beacuse everything I remember I am to lazy. And ye I am to lazy.


Are you planing on doing any overclocking?

[Chiguy]

NP

It will still boot if you have it enabled without a SATA drive (that's what I did when I booted the computer on this motherboard the first time). If I remember right, it's next to the chip that says Silicon Image. It should be documented in the manual if you can't find it.