Reddit reviews StarTech.com Replacement Power Reset LED Wire Kit for ATX Case Front Bezel (BEZELWRKIT)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00213KDQK?ie=UTF8&at=&force-full-site=1&ref_=aw_bottom_links

I'm pretty sure this is what I bought. It comes with a power switch, reset switch, power LED, reset LED and an HDD LED.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00213KDQK/ref=olp_tab_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used

It sounds like a cool project, a bit ambitious but totally feasible and thought out. I think with a projector in a unified wooden case you'll want about two 200mm case fan at the top of it. I'm sure you could find a way to do that without spoiling the appearance. If you went that way, you'd want to have it on small legs with enough porting on the bottom that it can suck in air to feed the fans on top (or maybe another 200mm fan on the bottom too). The reason you'd want big fans like 190mm, or 200mm, is that they spin at a much lower speed (bout 700RPMs vs ~1500-2500).

You'll have to figure a way to get the power button and a couple USB ports external to the case. You could always just get a USB front/back panel hub. Something like this seems a bit pricy for a cable but it could help things out. The power button can be made from any momentary switch but you could also just grab something like this for ease of installation.

It might be easier to mount your stuff if you build an existing case into the wooden box, rather than trying to mount things straight to it; it depends on how handy you are. Who knows, I'm just throwing out suggestions that may or may not be useful to you.

You're right that you won't want a nice, unique, possibly expensive setup to be hindered by a lower end computer. You may even want to step it up to the A10-5800k for $120 (currently the top AMD APU).

As far as small HTPC cases go, Silverstone cases (like this) always seem to be pretty popular. I wouldn't exactly describe them a budget cases but they are nice.

Anyway, like I said. these are all just ideas/suggestions to get you thinking.

Hahah yeah it's super harrowing. I totally understand.

A motherboard speaker should give you a debug code. On some motherboards, there's a little 7-segment display that gives debug codes, but I presume that's not on yours.

If the debug code says something interesting, that'll help! And yes, that would have been the point to break out the screwdriver and pliers ^_^ Or whatever it takes to do a bios reset, really.

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The power LED is actually just an LED, as in, a light emitter diode. Any old one should do the trick. PC motherboards are either 12 volt or 5 volt, but you can 'pop' an LED and that's the only thing that'll break, so you're free to experiment... I think pc motherboard LED's are 5 volt.

Hooking up an LED requires wires and a uhh...plug? Is that the word?

http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-BEZELWRKIT-Case-Front-Bezel/dp/B00213KDQK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1453074427&sr=8-1&keywords=motherboard+LED

Here's a kit that apparently has everything you'd need to hook up a power LED :-) Except a place for you to put it in your front bezel, but you know. If you want an LED.

Great work so far! I think you should try out the intel extreme memory profile I suggested before.

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Or, you should be able to find them in any old PC that is being thrown out. Then just connect your switch into the wire.

Does your case not come with buttons?

I don't get why people do his when buttons and stuff are cheap or even cheaper. I keep a set around for testing motherboards and they're great.

GTX 1070, 3 drives, but no buttons?

Check the front panel connections, if it's a broken power wire from the front panel, that can easily be replaced. http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Replacement-Power-Reset-BEZELWRKIT/dp/B00213KDQK/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1310017923&sr=8-2
Your 20+4 (the big one) could be a little unseated. The switch on the back of the PSU could be off.

http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Replacement-Power-Reset-BEZELWRKIT/dp/B00213KDQK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1396216587&sr=8-1&keywords=power+reset+led+wire+kit

Sure man, anything to help a fellow PCMR brother out.

I was able to find this on amazon, of course that assumes your friend can get it before he gets to you in India.

If you have to order it and get it shipped to India, then I probably won't be of the best of help because I don't know what website are the best for you.

The cables you're looking to get extensions for are called system panel connectors. They also might go by fpanel, front panel connectors, or system panel headers. Those are the names for them in the U.S. at least. The official name of the cables are IDC (insulation displacement contact) or IPC connectors (insulation piercing contact).

So you need a 2x5 IDC pin cable for the audio, and it looks to be the same for the USB1 and USB2 IDC pin cables as well. The FAudio and FUSB connectors look to have one unusued but I'm not sure what it would be specifically called.

I would suggest having another PCMR member check over what I said to make sure it's correct before you make any purchases of course.