P965 Platinum Won't Start

My setup is:
MSI P965 Platinum Limited
Core 2 Duo E6600
Patriot 2x1GB DDR2-800 (4-4-4-12)
BFG GeForce 8800GTS 320MB OC
Antec True Power 2.0 380W 3.3V/28A 5V/35A 12V/16A
WD 2x 150GB SATA1.5
The mobo, the cpu, the ram and the vid card are all new.
Everything connected, when I turn the PSU on, and hit the switch, nothing happens; no fans turn on, or otherwise. I've tested the external cable to be fine, as well as any wall sockets.
To make sure it wasn't my PSU, I tried plugging the ATX 24pin into my old mobo, which is a 20pin, along with the ATX 4pin and my PSU turned on fine, as well as my old cpu fan, etc. When I left the ATX 4pin on the P965, my new cpu fan lit up as well as half my peripherals (ata dvd burner, but not slave ata dvd rom; graphics card fan also did not turn on despite the ATX 6pin plugged into the card).
I read the manual suggested a 450W PSU, is it that my current PSU doesn't have enough juice to start up my system? Or worse, is it possible the ATX 24pin slot is damaged?
Thanks.

Quote from: Quadrifoglio Verde on 04-April-07, 22:44:03
Long discussion, which one is better. Fact is that not too many brands produce single rail PSU's anymore, and many stores don't even sell single rail PSU's. So you might be limited in your choice.
But to answer your questions: yes, single rail is better. However, some newer dual rail PSU's are capable of outperforming some older single rail PSU's. You can not use the combined 12v current on one rail, each rail is limited to around 20A.
If each rail is limited to 20A, will this be enough for the graphics card? As was stated earlier, the BFG site suggests 12V/28A for nominal usage.
(If it makes a difference, I have no real intention to overclock anything on this system.)

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    I hope you don't mind me asking this question for Jack the Newbie.
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    Garfield,
    I had exactly the same problem--because I had my optical drive hooked up to a Promise IDE controller, rather than to a mobo IDE connection.  Turns out the Promise will read and write the optical drives OK, just won't boot from them properly.  And, somehow, that affects Windows Setup.
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    Stahlwird
    To relate Garfields problem with your solution is a mistake.  Your board does not use any JMicron hardware, has NVidia chipset instead of Intel and an AMD CPU.  Your are talking about a totally different Setup here.

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