ok, so I have a vague idea what i'm doing here, hopefully someone smart can help me out. My friend's old motherboard fried, so he got a new one, and asked me to help me install it, because i've done a couple before.
now, we have everything plugged in, and hit the power switch, nothing. nada. there is, however, a test switch on the power supply, and when we hit that, everything starts up, then turns off a few seconds later (i assume this is how the test switch is supposed to work, and that it's not crashing). So we figure the problem must lie between the front power button and the motherboard. Since his old motherboard was at least able to get power, we're thinking perhaps they used a different pin setup in the wires fromt he front power button. An obnoxious thing to do, but it was a Gateway built computer, so who knows what kind of obnoxious things they've done to keep you from tinkering with it.
This probably sounds like a lot of buildup to a really simple solution, but we're thinking we may just need to rearrange the wires in the jack to correspond with the proper setup for the motherboard. The problem is, neither of us has any idea what color wires do what. Hopefully there's a standard here. Our 5 colored wires here are Black, White, Orange, Green, and Blue. As it currently stands, the Black and White ones are connected to the Power Switch Pins, the Orange and Green are connected to the Power LED, and the Blue goes to one of the Reset switch pins. If anyone has any ideas about this, or has an idea from the rest of this long-winded post here that points out something dumb we've missed, please post something here, or fire off an email to fatrob77@hotmail.com
thanks all.
now, we have everything plugged in, and hit the power switch, nothing. nada. there is, however, a test switch on the power supply, and when we hit that, everything starts up, then turns off a few seconds later (i assume this is how the test switch is supposed to work, and that it's not crashing). So we figure the problem must lie between the front power button and the motherboard. Since his old motherboard was at least able to get power, we're thinking perhaps they used a different pin setup in the wires fromt he front power button. An obnoxious thing to do, but it was a Gateway built computer, so who knows what kind of obnoxious things they've done to keep you from tinkering with it.
This probably sounds like a lot of buildup to a really simple solution, but we're thinking we may just need to rearrange the wires in the jack to correspond with the proper setup for the motherboard. The problem is, neither of us has any idea what color wires do what. Hopefully there's a standard here. Our 5 colored wires here are Black, White, Orange, Green, and Blue. As it currently stands, the Black and White ones are connected to the Power Switch Pins, the Orange and Green are connected to the Power LED, and the Blue goes to one of the Reset switch pins. If anyone has any ideas about this, or has an idea from the rest of this long-winded post here that points out something dumb we've missed, please post something here, or fire off an email to fatrob77@hotmail.com
thanks all.