major problem

[creepy]

I just got a new mobo (shuttle AN35N ultra),memory (corsair xms),acrylic case and some other bs that doesnt have effect w/ my problem. Anyway I set everything up on a box before putting it in the case and it worked fine. Once I dropped everything into the case the mobo kept grounding to the case. Finally after 6hrs of messing w/ it I got it to work in the case.Btw im usin an athlon 2400+ cpu. I ran fine for about 30min I then had to clear bios. When I cleared bios it grounded to the case AGAIN. Finally i got it to work just by movin the board around and then everything on the screen was totally outta wack so i moved stuff around etc and ever since it hasnt worked. I also tried my old mobo and still it hasnt worked. Anyone know wtf is wrong? I have grounding problems EVERY SINGLE TIME I get a new mobo and its starting to get really old.

 

[FireMogle]

Whats it grounding to if the case is acrylic?

 

[Sp1k3]

Whats it grounding to if the case is acrylic?

haha, what is it grounding to? acrylic aint metal buddy (creepy)

 

[johnny5c]

The only problem I had with my acrylic case was not enough grounding, sound would go nuts when a cd was being read. I had to run ground straps from the PSU to the mobo stand-offs. Have you tried a different PSU? Does it post every time but not boot, or is it just dead all together?

 

[Hookem]

I would recommend taking the motherboard out of the case and just trying the motherboard, power supply, processor, heat sink, fan, memory, video card, keyboard, mouse and monitor...You will have jump the power on jumpers for a second to get it to boot...It should boot right up...If it does not then you have a problem with one of the above componets...If not then reinstall the motherboard...Try booting...If it boots then connect all the rest of your hardware one piece at a time to try and locate what is causing your problem...Just fixed a friends box who had a bad floppy drive that was causing his system not to boot...He bought a new power supply, video card...Borrowed hard drives all kind of stuff...He had 4 hard drives, PCI IDE raid card, TV out card, 1394, Zip, USB, Lan, 7 in 1 card reader, modem, DVD-ROM, CDRW, video card and the floppy all connected and even did the kiss of death by putting on the door on it before trying to fire it up...

 

[creepy]

Turns out it was grounding to the little standoff things so yes mr.smartass that calls me buddy and says the case isnt metal i was somewhat correct. As for my other problem my CPU had gotten cooked. Its all fixed now.