Okay I'll just put out what my thought on this matter is...
I'm think'n the motherboard has a short some where.
BuuuUUuut now that I think about it a bit more, can any one tell me if the ATX power cord from the Powersupply to the Motherboard has any datatransfer what so ever? Can the motherboard actually detect, with out a datacable connected, that the HDD or CDROM has power? For some reason I SWORE it could but now that I think more on it, it is sounding PSU related. Krud.
Okay, some one answer this for me..
Do PSU's divy out amps from a pool to all areas? Or does each rail get it's own designated guarenteed pool of Amps to draw on?
Meaning does it work like A or B?
A. 1 pool of Amps. All rails tap into the main pool of Amps for a maximum bandwith of Amps?
B. Each rail has a completely independant pool of amps to work from that is always the same and guarenteed??
And even still that leaves me to wonder... Why would the orignal PC, with a Raedon 9600 256mb video card, network card, soudblaster sound card, along with CDROM and HDD work fine with this Motherboard, CPU, and Memory...
But as soon as I change the Motherboard, CPU, and Memory, it kraps out when I connect nothing but the hard drive to the power supply. Something just isn't clicking for me on this...