Well, got the case yesterday and transferred everything over except the PSU. I saw that the new PSU had a built in PCIe rail and decided to use that instead of the one that was in the old case that didn't have one. Got everything good to go and whatnot and then went to sleep then work.
So after I come home, I decided to install Linux Mint 13 (after burning it while in LM 11)... Which for some reason installed a broken GRUB2... So I had to reinstall LM11...
After that, decided to boot into Windows and right before the login screen, the computer shuts off. I tinkered a bit, tried again (doing this for several times; dragging the computer back and forth in the process) before finally coming to the conclusion it was the new PSU that was faulty.
Sometime during those attempts (I think toward the end), I pulled the PSU I was using out and noticed something was catching... Holy friggin' crap! There's the built in PCIe rail that I thought wasn't there. I must have hidden it so well from myself that I forgot about it... Then again, I didn't need it for Lie-chan since there was a molex connector on the motherboard for the PCIe slot.
Anyway, after swapping the PSUs (and just lazily reconnecting everything and not undoing some of my tinkering), I turned it on, got into Windows and started doing stuff... while expecting for something to happen. Luckily nothing so far (I'm typing this on the first boot XD).
I may return the fans (except the side fan and front fan) to the motherboard and see if that does anything (not to mention it makes it a bit neater.... sorta anyway).
One of the other hypotheses I had was that the 8-pin CPU plug extension cable I used to route it behind the mobo may have been the culprit... Nope, I was wrong, but I think I'll leave it as is. I really don't feel like messing with it any more for at least the first half of this month. I will also try that with the fans as well.
Well time to do a quick "stress test" to make sure everything's fine and dandy now... Hopefully I remember to write XClio an email sometime.
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