Hello
I have a AN8 motherboard that has red lights under it when you try to power up, tiny diodes that light up bright red, first time it happend I thought it was dead short and pulled the power lead out quick as possible.
To explain, I obtained the motherboard in a sale, fully boxed complete and looked unused apart from the two CD's missing, it was take it or leave it.
Built it into a nice Lian Li case, including the two screws Buff mentioned, well they do align with clip holes. hung most bits on it then gave it a quick power up, just to see if it would run, thats when I found the lights that I can find no reference to.
Removed it from the case put it on a foam sheet with just AMD 64x2 3800 cpu artic fan and Psu, shorted the power pin to start, the fan flipped then stopped the red lights were on but dim all over the underside of the board, tried a new Psu, rebuilt it all into the case, now it starts and stops, pulses every 3 seconds, fan fiips red lights on off repeated.
I thought it could be a compassiter shorting out and recharging?
Can anyone offer any reason for this, or ideas, before I bin it.
Not all is lost, I will be getting another ditto m/b.
Sorry this my first post is such heavy going.
regards
pacer.