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OK - my worse fear came true. It won't boot (does nothing). I even plugged in a regular disk expecting it to make some noise, but nothing.
Any gotcha you remember, or it just worked for you the first time?
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Yes, tried all the cable combinations I could think of. By the way, the button on the PCB is a power button, right? I tried without the remote IR as well, just plugin the PCB to the motherboard and pressing that button (you never know, maybe the remote is broken...).
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I did not know there is a button on the IR PCB.
What motherboard do you have? Did you check the bios settings?
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The mobo is the exact one in the first post in this thread (as everything else).
Following some advise from Larry I got it to start (and die after two seconds, but it's progress for sure).
I reset the BIOS setting by clearing the CMOS, not much else I can do since there's no video :-)
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In bios I only enabled power on by mouse and keyboard.
Did you ever had video so far? Is the system connected to a monitor or to a TV ? Give more details.
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No, no video at any time.
I've tried in a TV via HDMI and a monitor via DVI, same behavior in both.
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Both 20pin and 4pin from PSU are connected? Unplug the SSD.
You should try another PSU. Also another memory.
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Same results with different PSU and memory.
So looks like mobo and/or CPU. I was hoping for the PSU given that it's the easier thing to replace...
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After some more work - update :-)
- PSU cable is damaged, I'm getting a replaced
- Either the CPU, or the motherboard, or both, were dead - unknown if on arrival or caused by the PSU cable, or user paws
I now have working CPU+mobo+memory (tested on the table) so I'm waiting for the replacement PSU cable to install everything again and hope for the best.
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i really love this project and i was wondering if this kind of fanless htpc can be used as an always on pc.
I'd like to use its double hdmi to connect it to my tv and a screen+mouse+keyboard so i can use it as a normal pc to surf the net and play some "not so heavy" game like league of legends.
Would you recommend it to me with the kind of use i would make of it?
actually i got a laptop connected via hdmi to my tv, i'd like to replace it with a fanless powerful minipc like this![/align]
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OK, final update :-)
I got the replacement cable Larry from hdplex fedexed me, took me around 1 hour to install everything. XBMC is up and running, everything seems stable, temperature is less than 50 C.
I couldn't get the remote to work well (meaning that while in a linux terminal you need to press 5 around 20 times in the remote to get one in the console), but I don't know if it's the remote, the receiver, or just that I didn't install it properly (I screwed it myself to the case using a screw that looked OK, I didn't get the official one). Also, I can't power on from the remote.
So I took my old remote from my previous HTPC (a original microsoft one, connected via external USB) and I'm a happy camper. It's possible if I wasn't lazy I could get the hdplex one to work. But I like my old remote, and I don't really power off the htpc ever.
You can install everything inside the fanless case and just wait for the PSU.
