Hi. I'm in the middle of building my first computer. I'm just waiting for the Graphic Card to arrive. I've purchased a Corsair power supply and before installing it in the computer and getting it all connected thought I'd test it out. I connected it up to the power supply then plugged in my DVD player. Nothing. None of the connectors seem to have any power to them. I've checked the power cable to the supply and that's ok. Should there be power to these connectors or does it have to be connected up to the motherboard ect before it will supply power to the connectors? Is there a start up sequence the motherboard begins?

I'm trying it out as I only have 48 hours to check it and let the supplier know of any faults ect and I can't put the complete system together yet as I'm short the graphics card, monitor and keyboard.

Hopefully someone knows the answer to this question. ThanksOn your first build you will need some help. The power supply does not give power until the motherboard gives a signal. Do lyou have a friend to help your? Do lyou have any guides or videos that show you what to expect?
Here is a video with no voice, no pretty girls and is very detailed and takes a hour.
http://www.5min.com/Video/How-to-Build-Your-Own-PC-6867Great, the information needed and a very speedy reply. Unfortunately I don't have anyone to help but hopefully should be ok but for a few simple questions like this. I've been googling for all and any info and videos for about a month now so have quite a bit of info. I wouldn't really have noticed it but thought I'd test the PSU, case fans and DVD and noticed no power but now know I can't test this way. AH well, just gotta hope all the bits I've purchased do work. I'm not so worried as the company I'm purchasing all the bits from is Scan, quite a good company, and all the bits are of good quality e.g.; a Gigabyte MOBO, Samsung f3 Spinpoint HD, intel i5 CPU, Corsair PSU ect.

Again, thanks for the HELPYOU'll do fine...we'll be here...To test the basic function of an ATX power supply, short the Green wire with one of the grounds. This should turn the power supply on.
ATX PinoutDo you mean the green wire on the ATX 24 pin motherboard connector? And would that be with a ground on the same connector? And will that turn on the PSU so there is power at the other connectors?

Thanks for the help everyone. I'll post with any more questions as they arise and let you know how I get on but the build wont be completed till the end of the month . . . That graphic card is really expensive.. Just seen the LINK at the end of your post and tried it.

PSU is fine, case fans work and so does the DVD. Again, thanks for the info.Hopefully this is where I put further questions about my computer build. I did consider starting a new thread but not sure if I should as it's a continuation of my original question but simply a different hardware question.

Maybe someone could point me in the right direction on this point.

Anyway, here's the question. If I ever needed to reset the cmos I could take the battery out but the motherboard also has a couple of pins for that which I simply short out. (this is in the motherboard manuel). To do that I would need to take the side panel off and though it's easy enough could I not connect up a 'reset cmos' switch somewhere on the case? I'd make it one of those ones where you insert a pin or something to ACTIVATE the switch so that it couldn't be pressed accidentally.

And I have thanked some people but my summary shows 0 thanked.Stay with the same Topic...probably best.

For the amount of times you may need a CMOS reset i'm not sure cobbling together an external switch would be wort it...

Good idea for future case manuf. though... Yea, you're right but I'm considering over clocking the cpu and ram (once I get to that stage) and may have to reset a few times if it's not stable so being lazy and as I've just connected everything up thought it might be worth it.

Might email a few companies with the suggestion for, as you say, future case manufacture.

Thanks.

What MBoard are you buying ? ?
ASUS for example has an OC utility; crash free BIOS; and EZ flash utility that enables you to make changes on the fly from a USB drive or floppy and can be reset at each boot...no opening the case required at all.
Here's what I've got so far

Purchased

Antec 300 case
Gigabyte GA-P55-US3L mobo
Intel i5-750 CPU
Corsair vx550w PSU (as recommended by well known company here in UK)
Corsair (2x1gb) TwinX XMS3 DDR3
Samsung 500gb HD502HJ SpinPoint F3
LiteOn IHAP122-19 22x DVD+and-, 8xDVD


Here's what's still to purchase

Nvidia Geforce GTX285
Saitek PK 02AV Eclipse II Wired Keyboard
22" Digimate - DGM L-2262WD Black, Widescreen LCD


Looking in the mobo manual the mobo has Dual-Bios, Q-Flash And @Bios and comes with SMART6. This has

Quickboot - speeds up boot up process
Quickboost - 3 levels of CPU over-clocking automatically without touching the bios ( a restart is needed though)
SMART Recovery - creates backups of changed data files
Dual Bios - self explanatory
SMART Recorder - monitors and records the activity in a system
SMART Timelock - allows users to manage computer usage time

The quickboost sounds great but only allows you to take the CPU to about 3.8GHz and looking at everything on line and a few magazines I subscribe to over here the CPU will go to 4.2GHz with the motherboard purchased. It's the mobo they actually used with the CPU in the over-clocking test in one of the magazines and they give all their settings used. There will be differences in how far I can over-clock, I'm sure, because the rest of my system is different than theirs.

This is a little off in the future yet as I still have to purchase that GPU, monitor and keyboard....