Cable Maintenance/Re-soldered power button pin (pictures inside)

[PcH]

Hello, TBCS! I'm a big time lurker, but I'd like to share my experience with you today. Around 3 PM EST I decided to do some cable management (inspired by friend).

I began by working on re-locating the power and IDE/SATA cabling for my three hard drives. I could not move any wiring behind my motherboard tray because the other door (and top) of my Antec Sonata II do not open without some permanent fixing.

Anyway, just as I was finishing up the cable management, I came into several minor problems. A pin for my 120mm power connector broke. A power wire for my IDE hard drive became stripped.

To top all of this, my computer wouldn't start. I began removing components and tried to boot with the bare minimum in (CPU, PSU, one stick of RAM, etc.). Props to Cool1Net6 for the help.

Well, after re-checking wiring and the PSU by plugging in the green/black to a paper clip, the PSU fortunately was not dead. I had a gut feeling it was the wiring to the power/reset buttons, but didn't know which one until I found this:

The negative pin had separated from the power button. I immediately thought "Oh, great. Guess I'll go buy another case" After some thinking and continual advice from Cool1Net6, I did some soldering and the button works just fine.

The final result (looks messy, but is a LOT better..trust me ):

Not bad for my second time soldering. As you can see, another rubber foot fell off the bottom of my case. I just stripped them all off and plan on modding some wheels since I have carpeting.

I tend to be clumsy, but get the job done. Cheers!

[Mitternacht]

The cabe management looks good, but are my eyes playing tricks on me? Is there no RAM in that motherboard?

[PcH]

The cabe management looks good, but are my eyes playing tricks on me? Is there no RAM in that motherboard?

There are two sticks of Corsair PC3200 on the right two (DIMM3 and DIMM4) slots. They have those heating plates (silver) covering them. It makes them seem invisible in the photo.

Sorry about the low quality pictures.

[Mitternacht]

Ok. the way the CPU wire goes over the area makes it seem that there's no RAM there.