long but here goes...
I ,just got a shuttle an35n along with a mobile athlon 2400 and 2x256 kingston hyperx. i am using my antec 430 true power PSU. i assemble everything.. struggle a little with the heatsink... finally get it on. put it in my case. hide wires. get everything ready. POWER ON! fans spin up, the led on the mobo lights up... no beeps though, and no signal to monitor. wtf? i power off, check connections, and power back on. same thing. everything spins up (fans, hd, cdrom, etc.), but no beeps and no signal sent to the monitor. ok so this is weird and depressing (as i haven't had a computer in a while, since my old one suicided itself). so, i try powering up again, and this time i feel the heatsink while it's on. AHH! i can feel electricity coming through the heatsink. it is a steady current releasing into my finger. as i reach for the switch on the power supply, i can even feel the current coming from the metal around the psu/backofthecase. what the hell is going on? i wasn't sure, but my best guess was that somewhere, the mobo was touching the tray and shorting out, but instead of shorting it was releasing electricity through whatever metal was available. this isn't so good, so i remove the motherboard from the tray (it's a slideout), and rest it on an antistatic bag. It's not touching anything metal, so i figure this should work. i plug the power leads in, as well as the pc speaker and power button thing to the mobo. i power on. no signal. no beep. and again i feel the heatsink to make sure it wasn't shorting out or anything this time. IT'S STILL RELEASING ELECTRICITY! WTF!!~~!!? this is out of the case resting on an anti static bag so it's definately not touching anything to make it short out. so at this point i know something is terribly wrong. so i take off the heatsink and the cpu out of the socket. it's still out of the case at this point, so i power on without anything in the socket. things spin up, etc. no beep from the pc speaker. so while it's powered on with no cpu in, i feel around the socket and surrounding components to feel if anything is still releasing current. i get nothing. all metal pieces on the mobo, the psu, everything feels fine. so my question is, what the hell? what is going on? how can i fix this? can these symptoms happen if the heatsink is touching parts of the cpu (not the core, but the other little rectangles, or whatever)? do you think anything fried out? wtf do i do???? any comment,suggestion,etc would be appreciated, as i have never heard of something like this happening, and am really bummed out at this point, as i was so excited to have my replacement computer up and running today.
I ,just got a shuttle an35n along with a mobile athlon 2400 and 2x256 kingston hyperx. i am using my antec 430 true power PSU. i assemble everything.. struggle a little with the heatsink... finally get it on. put it in my case. hide wires. get everything ready. POWER ON! fans spin up, the led on the mobo lights up... no beeps though, and no signal to monitor. wtf? i power off, check connections, and power back on. same thing. everything spins up (fans, hd, cdrom, etc.), but no beeps and no signal sent to the monitor. ok so this is weird and depressing (as i haven't had a computer in a while, since my old one suicided itself). so, i try powering up again, and this time i feel the heatsink while it's on. AHH! i can feel electricity coming through the heatsink. it is a steady current releasing into my finger. as i reach for the switch on the power supply, i can even feel the current coming from the metal around the psu/backofthecase. what the hell is going on? i wasn't sure, but my best guess was that somewhere, the mobo was touching the tray and shorting out, but instead of shorting it was releasing electricity through whatever metal was available. this isn't so good, so i remove the motherboard from the tray (it's a slideout), and rest it on an antistatic bag. It's not touching anything metal, so i figure this should work. i plug the power leads in, as well as the pc speaker and power button thing to the mobo. i power on. no signal. no beep. and again i feel the heatsink to make sure it wasn't shorting out or anything this time. IT'S STILL RELEASING ELECTRICITY! WTF!!~~!!? this is out of the case resting on an anti static bag so it's definately not touching anything to make it short out. so at this point i know something is terribly wrong. so i take off the heatsink and the cpu out of the socket. it's still out of the case at this point, so i power on without anything in the socket. things spin up, etc. no beep from the pc speaker. so while it's powered on with no cpu in, i feel around the socket and surrounding components to feel if anything is still releasing current. i get nothing. all metal pieces on the mobo, the psu, everything feels fine. so my question is, what the hell? what is going on? how can i fix this? can these symptoms happen if the heatsink is touching parts of the cpu (not the core, but the other little rectangles, or whatever)? do you think anything fried out? wtf do i do???? any comment,suggestion,etc would be appreciated, as i have never heard of something like this happening, and am really bummed out at this point, as i was so excited to have my replacement computer up and running today.