Hmm sotc do you have a pdf of your mobos manual? Or if you give me the model number I could find one on the web I'm sure. I could take a look. It sounds like you need a power supply with a 20+8 (or 4+4)pin for the mobo, maybe? Because you mentioned 20-8..I'm sure SOS will be of better help.

But if you give me the link to your psu and the link to your mobo I will take a look and see if i notice any problems or solutions.

Case/psu manual:
www.raidmax.com/Manuals/smilodon.pdf
Mobo manual (can't get this to download but I have a print copy):
http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=KX5kXQSmyaQaXVEP

And here's a poorly shot youtube video on the insides of my computer. It's kind of all over the place but I pause when I need to. Took some pictures and I'll edit the post to put them in here. In the video I guess the main thing I wanted to look at where the 24pin and 4pin parts of the mobo. I'll post pics of what I plug into that in a sec.
Pics
This plugs into the 4pin part of the mobo:
http://img146.imageshack.us/i/16825191.jpg/
20pin that goes into 24pin
http://img20.imageshack.us/i/20pin.jpg/
This is what SOS was talking about I believe, the LED board.
The LED cords were tethered to a bunch of other cords, whose "plugs" for that were too big for any parts on my mobo.
http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/9331/lede.png

Hmm, so when you plug the 20 pin into the 24 slot on the mobo there shuold also be a 4 pin extra available from the psu to plug into the remaining 4 of the 24 on the mobo.

Then the psu should have a seperate 12v 4pin for the 4pin input of the mobo.

Does the psu have two 4 pin plugs? The first 4 pin should be connected to 20 pin of the psu. Those 2 go into the 24 pin on the mobo. The second one will be your 12v atx that goes into the 4 pin outlet near the cpu.

Ok that did it. I figured the 12v 4pin would go in the 4 pin slot not in the 24 pin. Thanks. Only now I have a new problem. The monitor won't get a signal from the computer. What would case that? everything is plugged in right from monitor to the computer...

You mean your video card is properly seated and is getting enough power and is properly hooked to the monitor and it still won't give you video?

My mobo has two pciex16 slots so I intalled in the one labeled "PCIEX16_1" (rather than _2) and I think the installation went ok. It could've fit in either one but the mobo or the graphic's card manual didn't specify and they were labeled the same. As far as power, am I supposed to plug anything into the mobo or the psu after installing the card? No manual said that.

http://www1.sapphiretech.com/us/prod...gpid=245&grp=3
Product page.

If you have a higher end card, it most likely requires more power than just given from the motherboard. My GTX 260, for example, requires two more 6-pin cables from the PSU.

That card takes two 6 pin pci-e connectors. Most PSUs have at least one. If yuo don't have 2 you can get a molex to pci-e adapter. That should fire it up.

Yeah your card should have come with a couple adapters, which will be good enough.,

And we have
LIFTOFF
Thanks for the help guys. Seriously, I was so beaten by this thing and it wouldn't have happened without you.

Only problems now was that some of the led's (like the power button) didn't have a place on my mobo and there are a lot of extra fans that I couldn't figure out how to power. Is this a big deal?

As long as you have an intake and an exhaust going I wouldn't worry about the extra fans for now. Glad everything worked out

Shouldn't be a big deal. If you want to monitor your temperatures, download something like SpeedFan and it'll tell you.

Aw I missed all of your fun while I had some of my own.

Got my new rig up and running after a few days of problem solving, using the same mobo as HowStern. In order of problems faced: Forgot the 4-pin 12v to the mobo, had to get adapters for the coolermaster pack of 4 extra case fans, had to get the right adapters for said case fans... Had my old IDE hdd jumper set wrong (apparently master when there's no slave can really really slow down startup to the point I thought my mobo was a bit borked), and finished with having to unplug my HDMI cable for Windows 7 to complete its install (actually borrowed a friend's CRT monitor to find this out unnecessarily).

This may be irrelevent, but if you plan on using more case fans than that motherboard has headers for, and need 3-pin to 4-pin molex adapters to hook them straight to your PSU, make sure you get the right voltage (12v in my case, and you can tell by where the two wires [one should be yellow] go in the socket). Now I have to try and return these stupid opened 5v ones somehow, be weary of trusting Fry's associates. Oh yeah, and I'm loving Windows 7, having skipped over Vista entirely.

Glad to hear you got your new computer running fine, shinpachi. 7 is a great OS.

What's optimal temperature for a pc? I think mine was 40 degrees Celsius.
My sound isn't working either, but I'll type up a big thing about that later.

That's fine.

40C for CPU is fine. As for your sound, make sure you install the drivers that came with your motherboard. If you're using Windows XP or Vista then you'll need to install the chipset drivers, maybe the network adapter drivers, sound drivers, etc. If you're using Windows 7 RC, then maybe the website will have some updated drivers.


*Edit* Hmm is it just me or has Newegg been running out of stock of those SATA DVD burners really fast? Seems like there is no sub $30 SATA DVD burners right now. How weird.

Yeah I'm trying to re-install some new drivers. And about the temp, well after about fifteen minutes of use it starts climbing up and these are the speedfan specs.
Temp1: 47C Temp2: 49C Temp3: -128C (?) and core: 43C. Is that still good? How do I plug in the extra fans if they have molex connectors and there are none on my mobo?

Temp3: -128C (?)

That's probably because the Speedfan is not truly compatible with your motherboard. It does that on my Shuttle XPC. As for your temperatures, those are very normal.

How do I plug in the extra fans if they have molex connectors and there are none on my mobo?

Then you'll have to plug those to the molex connectors on the power supply.

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