It's Alive, It's Alive!

It wasn't until the next evening that I got a chance to open the HTPC box up again and verify my electrical connections. Indeed, I had made two mistakes.

The first problem was that I reversed the ends of the SATA cable. I strongly doubt that was causing the problem, but the 90 degree turn in the hard drive connector was covering other sockets on the motherboard and that didn't look right. A picture in the instructions told me the correct orientation of the cables using text over an image of the cable. I guess that was an OK way to tell me that.

The second problem was that I plugged the connector for the power switch into the pins for the power LED. I suppose that could be it.

So, after correcting those problems, I flipped the power switch, the keyboard lights came on, went off, and, ... nothing else happened.

I pressed the power button on the front of the case and, and, hey the fans are turning, the speaker is beeping.

It's Alive! It's Alive! (Whew! I was afraid that this was going to be one expensive door stop.)

I made some adjustments to the Setup settings, which I will write about next, and called it a night.

(Whew!)