I also could not get the fan to sit at 0 degrees; 10 degrees was the closest I could get it to move to and still be able to screw in the thumbscrew.
This position allows the top fan to move air from the front of the case over the memory and CPU to the back of the case towards the exhaust fan. That was a LOT of work though, but it is done and I shouldn’t have to change this unless I change my components.
After I got the Core-Fan bracket inserted to where it would fit I plugged the two 3-pin connectors to the motherboard and put the rest of the case together then powered it up. It would not power up fully. It would power up, the fans would spin up, the hard drive briefly spun up and then it would turn off. I was beginning to worry that somehow I managed to fry my motherboard (22 years and so far no computer deaths from my playing directly with a motherboard). I looked over the motherboard and could not see any issues. This was starting to trouble me.
I checked to ensure the pins were in the proper header locations for the front panel switches. I looked around and with the front door of the panel open I noticed that the power switch wires were crimped pretty badly. In fact, the aluminum (yes they do not use copper wiring) was starting to show through. This must have happened from the door pinching and/or the cable being pulled across an edge of the steel case. Either way this was hampering my ability to successfully power up my computer and frustrated me further. My fix was not pretty and not totally perfect but I switched the power switch for the reset switch. The computer turns on and powers up now but the reset switch is more of momentary toggle switch so it can be a bit quirky when turning on the computer.
Once the computer powered up, the fans spun up and lights glowed and all was good! Well perhaps except for the messiness of my cables inside the case.
I managed to find some zap straps and cleaned up the case as best I could considering there are not many places to hide the large amounts of cable I have currently in the machine. Also switching from an IDE DVD Burner to a SATA based burner helped allow me to clean up the cables further as SATA cables are much thinner than IDE cables.
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