"Chassis Intruded" message

[gtr]

First time build, heres what i got:

Thermaltake Armor Series VA8003BWS full tower
Thermaltake 500W PS
Asus P5k-E
Evga 8800gts
G-skill 4gb RAM
Western Digital 500gb HD
Intel core 2 Quad Q6600
Cd rom and a dvd drive are off an old computer.
Currently dont have a floppy drive installed, but might get one in the future.

Ok, so i rigged this up, went through the initial boot and all that, went through the bios, and then i get into CMOS. But all the paths (A,B,C) were empty, so i just exited, saved the bios and rebooted. I stuck the vista cd in the drive, but then after i rebooted, i keep getting this "chassis intruded!" "Fatal Error - System Halted" message.

The case does come with an intrusion switch, but iam not using it. On the mobo, there are the chassis alarm pins, but there covered with a jumper cap. I did try useing the intursion switch, but then i guess it didnt work, so i just stuck the cap back on. Now i dont know how to get this message to stop coming up every time i boot, and it wont let me get past it.

Anybody know whats wrong? since i took the jumper cap off, do i have to reset the jumpers and clear the RTC, and go through bios all over again?

[Devastator]

http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.p...assis+intruded

[gtr]

that doesnt help me out any.

that thread says to go into the bios and change the settings, but I cant even get into the bios. it wont let me do anything after i boot up.

[shadowpr]

In your first post you said you could get into bios.

If you can't get into it anymore, what I would do is power it off. Unplug the power cable, and then remove the mother board battery for about 5 minutes. That should reset everything. Then put the batter back in, plug the power cable in, and you should be able to access bios then.

[gtr]

yea...thats what i was thinking. let me try it and i'll get back to you.

thanks bro

[liambl]

If that doesn't work, power up the PC with the pins for the case intrusion switch shorted (look in the manual to find out which pins). That should allow you into the BIOS so you can disable the case intrusion feature.

[gtr]

Yea, it worked. I reset the battery, and then I had to go through the bios again. And i tryed finding the intrusion feature in bios but couldnt find it.

But I finished the build, installed windows and everything works fine.
Thanks for your help guys.