Thanks to Peter and a good nights sleep... sort of

Again with my issues from yesterday.

The boyfriend came home last night and wanted to be nosy. He has less skills then I do, but the two of managed to figure out how to get the top of the case off. We were able to pull apart a few things to get to the power switch, I don’t think this is my problem anymore.

Which is a plus, because I love the case... remember two posts back... and I wouldn’t want to have to ship it out and wait for a new one... case remember, it’s huge! Once I get the pictures up. I used Barbie to demonstrate the size. It makes her dream house look like the size of a shoe box.

Anyways, I was done looking at it for the night. Had some dinner, watched a little Le Femme Nikita, and got some sleep. Of course I dreamt about fixing my computer. Not that the dream helped at all once I woke up this morning.

Started up my make shift computer (I currently have a monitor, speakers and keyboard attached to my laptop that’s being iffy in the visual department.) Went of to my monstrosity in the dinning room and started putting the cover back on. Plugged it in, and powered it up... hoping I was going to be lucky and have giggled the right thing in the right place... nothing. Of course, because technology doesn’t run on luck or faith or whatever you call it. Came back to my ‘working’ computer to catch up on the daily facebook. This is what I find waiting for me:
           

PETER - rookie. take the thing out. Never put it all together unless you are certain of the outcomes. what it takes for a successful POST, requires PSU, Mobo, CPU, RAM, and optional Video display. Have it pulled and test them in barebone state, then go from there. Watch out that 4pin cpu cord           

           
So I did just that. I unplugged everything but the Power Supply Unit (PSU), Motherboard (Mobo), Central Possessing Unit (CPU), and the Random Access Memory (RAM). Even pulled out the graphics card. Plugged it in, and hit the power switch...

I was able to get power to everything for a second or two before it died, however, it worked like this every time I hit the power button, and not just the once or twice like before. What does this mean? No idea... yet:)

Notes: My last post I mention that the new PSU had a reset button; it did not. The button controlled the led on the PSU fan. I assumed (insert that saying about what happens when you ass-u-me) that because after pressing it, I got some action, that it was a reset button. I did some reading and felt like an... well, you know.