so i got brand new wires and redid everything. i realized trying a method where i made a little loop around the holes with the wire before soldering made it weak and it broke... so everything was ok and it was playing right and turned on! but now theres a new problem...
when i tested it at first, it was outside of the enclosure, but when i put everything inside and tested again, it won't turn on. i suspected it was the AC plug because it was touching the toggle switch near the top, so i took it out but still nothing. i then thought it was the ac plug itself because i accidentally burned the plastic (it was the small low profile jack), so i replaced the plug it with a regular size innie jack. it seemed to work again like normal, so i put it back in the case... and realized it was still touching the toggle switch and stopped working. i then took it out and got a rubber heat shrink tube to cover the one spare pole that would touch and still no power, even while outside the enclosure... am i missing something? or is it bad wire? the wire is still working in my data corrupter so im not sure what i'm doing wrong, or maybe i twisted and turned it so much that it got bad?