Errors building a system due to idiotic error, ever done this before?

illuz

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illuz

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My Christmas present came early and my Mother just said I could install them if I wanted to 3 x Akasa 140mm, 3 x SGT 1850 120mm. :D

So anyway, they were a ***** to fit on without taking my machine apart, just couldn't get the Apaches in at the top of the case, so I took my computer apart, fitted them and built it back up... BANG. CPU_LED. Awwww maaaannn !

Take my cooler off, thinking I've knocked it or something (which is also a ***** to fit imo!) and inspect the CPU. Nothing, fine... Inspect the socket, fine.. What the hell?!

By this point I'm raging, and I'm freaking out thinking I've screwed something up. Re-seat the heatsink, still nothing. Take it off again, a good hour or so later looking for loose connections or something I notice I hadn't plugged my 12v into the MB cause I was raging and freaking out haha...

Anyone else ever just missed something so stupid then realised? :rolleyes:

p.s. Awesome fans. Oh so quiet when they're turned down, but give some awesome cooling on full whack. Not too loud either :D
 
Did a similar thing when I got my frist gfx card that needed power, think it was a gtx8800gt. Turned on the machine and it made a terrible noise. I **** myself thinking it was broken. Called my friend who then called me a noob and laughed at me, the *******.
 
Removed, cleaned, checked and reseated the cooler on a second hand graphics card three times to try to resolve the horrible noise it made when fired up. Was ready to send ranty message to seller when I realised it was actually catching on one of my SATA cables when I put the card into the PCI-E slot. Moved the cable and noise was gone.

Another time I finished a build but it wouldn't fire up, diagnosed a dead PSU and spent half an hour stripping it and swapping the PSU before I realised the 0-1 switch on the original PSU was still set to 0. Yup, I hadn't actually turned it on.

Sometimes I'm a real " can't see the wood for the trees" kind of guy.
 
When I built my sig rig I powered it on for the first time, got excited that it was working, and then noticed that it was on fire. True story. :rolleyes:

I had plugged the USB front panel cable into the firewire header because they are all black, have the same pin layout, and the firewire header had 'front' written under it... Course the ground pin and one of the power pins are the other way round, so it shorted and burned out a chip... :p

Go me :D
 
When I was building my rig, I started to panic because it wouldn't turn, found out it was because of the front panel headers. (almost started to cry, although I was 12)
 
I built my friends PC, and we spent hours trying to figure out why it wouldn't pick up any discs and wouldn't find the ODD in the BIOS.. turns out I never plugged the SATA cable into the ODD xD
 
Lol, yep, 2 weeks ago i rebuilt my rig into a new case, put it all together switched on and finally realised i hadn't connected the ssd/hdd's to the mobo.........noob lol anyway a bit of head scratching until i figured it out :)
 
I feel your pain. A few months back I fitted a new graphics card and somehow knocked the mobo power slightly out. System would boot sometimes and not others. I racked my brains, got a fresh pair of eyes and a friend spotted the thin gap while I was holding the tourch. Derp lol
 
First build i ever did a few years back when i was about 14 had got some money for christmas and decided i would build a pc, at the time didnt look too hard and pc world was just down the road with graphics cards cpus and so on in stock walked in and grabbed a cpu, motherboard and cooler kit along with a case. got home grabbed a psu from one of my old pcs and got to work. Fitted the motherboard, then put the cpu in, attached the cooler and then started putting in the hard drives and dvd drives. Wired everything closed the side panel and plugged it in pressed the power button and it just beeped at me nothing else just beeped. Openned it and looked around everything was plugged in nothing i could see, so i turn it on with the side panel off and notice there is a red light beside the ram slots.......there was no ram didnt buy any, had to run round to pc world the next day and shell out 40 quid for ram, it worked but it was pny crap that gave me 6 months of agony until i met overclockers who diagnosed that my ram was incompatible with the motherboard. 6 Months i hadn't a clue what to do as this was my third pc the one before being a laptop. Long story short buy compatible ram and use overclockers, it's just better, easier and their are lots and lots of forum members to laugh at you when your a noob
 
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