hi! i bought a supposedly new pc from a local shop, found it had a 5.5gig hd with bad sectors, it was a mess, nothing worked. judgments in court against this person never has resulted in anything happening so i resolved myself to putting money into it and sucking up the loss. i was told that the cpu was brand new, (i dont think so cos its a duron) i kept the cpu, i got a MSI km2m mobo new, a new 80gig hd, new cdrom drive, new floppy, and a new power supply. the cpu i kept from the original pc is a Amd Duron 1.4 . i put the pc together and the only problem i had was that the front end connectors are labled way differently than the mobo. mobo says " hdd led pwsw and rst" the connectors are labled " m/b sw reset sw hddled power led and a negative sign in a circle." the book for the mobo shows that the power led has two holes in it, but the power led wire i have only has one hole in it. i did trial and error for about an hour turning them sideways etc til i finally got power. i was thrilled. my pc worked FINE for three weeks. i had it networked and everything. 3nights ago i was on it and it was working great. the next morning i turned it on and nothing. no power, not even to the fans. i put the power supply box in from my other pc and it still didnt work. i noticed that those front panel connectors were off....now, i cant remember how i had them in and every attempt still leads to no power.
my question: how on earth do i connect those wires? ( the case is generic) and my other question is: could i have messed the mobo up if i had them connected wrong in the first place???
thanks to anyone who can help