[EHaskins]

Originally Posted by BordomBeThyName

I guess that would explain the brands, then.

By "wouldn't turn on at all" I mean the fans and leds would flash for a fraction of a second. No POST, no errors, no green light on the monitor.

I tried it with the jumpers on master, slave, and cs, so it wasn't that.

I've worked with a pretty good amount of systems too, and usually a broken drive just doesn't register, or gets a disk read error, or that one about media cables that I used to get a lot. The complete lack of power is pretty new to me too, and I don't even understand how that's possible, because even if the +5 and -5 aren't connecting, it should still boot just fine.

Anyways, since it's such a weird thing that I've never seen happen before, I'm gonna buy a new enclosure from radio shack and try it on a more familiar system.

Sounds like a reasonable plan. Although RadioShack is probably the most expensive place to get an enclosure. If you're willing to wait a few days order one from Newegg.com or a similar site.