No post with sam400ep?

[takemehomegrandma]

could it be because it was from norway and im in britain that i need to change something on the motherboard?

No.

Everything from Norway must be changed, in one way or another...

:-P

[takemehomegrandma]

its a brand new case and a brand new psu?

Even brand new stuff can actually be broken. I have had a broken brand new PSU myself once. Do you have a different one you can try? You haven't confused/mixed up the reset/power switch wires from the case? Or the pins you connect them to? Sam440 ep, that's the one with on-board GFX, right? Otherwise a GFX card present can be necessary on some motherboards I have come across in the past. Memory module is correctly inserted? Try removing it, and insert it again, firmly, it should click into place. Does the Sam require some ATA unit present? Sounds strange perhaps, but I'm just dropping suggestions here...

BTW, you are sure the thing actually works, and isn't broken?

[takemehomegrandma]

dont know what i did but.......ITS ALIVE woohoo.

Congratulations!

What was wrong?

[takemehomegrandma]

I think I've read that sams draw so little power that some modern PSUs won't send any current.

That may explain why the drives worked as they would draw the expected current from the PSU.

Complete guess though.

Come to think of it, it's a very good "guess". I'd even say you hit the nail on its head! You are absolutely right, this is the case with "modern" PSU's. Or let's rather call them "todays *higher wattage* PSU's" instead, because AFAIK, modern *low watt* PSU's doesn't "suffer" from this "problem"...



Good thing it works now!