No power and extra cables.

[JJTeamK]

Ok so I got a PC given to me and I wanted to make it my home PC. When I plugged it in it didn't do anything. Monitor, tower, and the connectors between the two all functional and nothing with my houses outlets or anything like that I've checked. I opened the tower up and found P2 wasn't plugged in and obviously it's coming from the PSU. The main connectors to the MB being P1 and a small attatched cord saying 4+. They connections were all good on them. Only thing that's loose was P2. I opened the PSU and checked capacitors. None of them being "domed" or damaged. I'm at a loss here to be honest. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.


I recorded footage of everything apart to maybe help you see something I don't. Thanks again.


https://youtu.be/i-1EqIpqd2s

 

[ko888]

P2 is the 4-pin CPU power connector.

Your video didn't even show a good view of the complete motherboard so it's difficult to provide an answer as to if it needs to be or where it should be plugged into that Acer motherboard.

 

[JJTeamK]

P2 is the 4-pin CPU power connector.

Your video didn't even show a good view of the complete motherboard so it's difficult to provide an answer as to if it needs to be or where it should be plugged into that Acer motherboard.

I posted a few pics to imgur. You can see them here. Sorry for the quality of previous vid. I'm not great with tech sometimes. The link shows a few pics of the PSU opened up. As well as the motherboard and P cords. If there is anything else you need me to take pics of please feel free to let me know. Any and all help is appreciated.

http://imgur.com/a/Hs3xv

Better pic of mother board

http://imgur.com/ketTE9q

 

[Susquehannock]

You might try the "paperclip trick" with a few fans connected to see if it fires up.

>> http://www.corsair.com/en-us/support/faqs/power-supplies

 

[ko888]

P2 is the 4-pin CPU power connector.

Your video didn't even show a good view of the complete motherboard so it's difficult to provide an answer as to if it needs to be or where it should be plugged into that Acer motherboard.

I posted a few pics to imgur. You can see them here. Sorry for the quality of previous vid. I'm not great with tech sometimes. The link shows a few pics of the PSU opened up. As well as the motherboard and P cords. If there is anything else you need me to take pics of please feel free to let me know. Any and all help is appreciated.

http://imgur.com/a/Hs3xv

Better pic of mother board

http://imgur.com/ketTE9q

What is the Acer model of this system? Open frame power supplies are not commonly used in consumer PCs.

It appears to be a very low power usage system that is built with laptop grade components like mobile CPU and SODIMMs. It won't need the P2 CPU power connector.

You can test if the power supply unit works by performing the paperclip test mentioned by @Susquehannock or following this video:

[flash=640,390]https://www.youtube.com/v/5FWXgQSokF4[/flash]

 

[Karadjgne]

Many of those older psu's have a small on/off switch at the back. No mention of this yet. Most psu's are not explicitly designed for a particular pc, they are generic use, so that psu is probably used in several different pc models by Acer, so will have quite a few unused connections. Not uncommon for a psu to have 5 molex connectors in a pc that only use 2, for example.