New Power Supply or How I Spent 2 hours On Sunday

It started off as a good idea.  I wanted to see if I could set up vmware on linux.  So I thought to myself, well  my old motherboard, cpu and ram is ready to go, why not rebuild the linux machine?  Well, it was all good until I realized that of all the power supplies I have left, and that's a total of four, are not equipped with 24-pin power connectors which my old motherboard requires.  So go to the local geek shop, and ask for a power supply, and then I saw a shiny new case.  It came with a power supply so I figured it was a good buy. 

Long boring story short, I pulled the parts out of the new rig, so they could go in the shiny new box.  Anywho, it seemed like all of the holes for the hardrives where they attach to the case were just smidge off.  So I had to adjust a bunch of parts to make them fit, also had to finally use some expansion brackets(thanks Jim!) to get the raptor to fit in the 5 1/4 inch bay since it refused to fit in the 3 1/2 incher. 

Once all of the hardware was in place, the only thing left was plugging everything in.  OK.  For some reason, I am not capable of remembering the process of plugging in components, because I always make the mistake at least once, and today was no exception.  I spent a significant amount of time(ie longer than 5 minutes) plugging everything in all at the same time.  What's the problem? Well, when I hit the power button nothing happened, not one f*cking thing.  And the fix? Unplug everything and do it the right way.  Baby steps.  Plug in ONLY the motherboard and power switch and see if that works.  Yep. Then plug in only ONE more component and make sure it still turns on.  Keep doing that until it stops working, and then you'll find out that you effed up the front panel usb connectors which apparently stops the machine from booting.   Grrrrr.  That was an unplanned amount of time to waste on a Sunday.

I figured since I wasted so much time on the shiny new box I'd take a few photos of the innards: