I am a complete goon

skookum · 4 Sep 2011 at 22:05

I am not a PC expert however I have been an IT Technician few years back and done a bit of IT Training.

My PC I thought blew up, I was convinced it had fried yet another Graphics card as there was no display. Changed and no difference, the post screen pops up then goes off about a second later. Decided to upgrade the motherboard as I was convinced it was at fault. Then of course it was new processor time and my ram was old so that was replaced along side it. I thought I should also invest in a new PSU to be safe.

Put it all together today to discover it is my monitor at fault, lol.

Am I the only idiot that's done this or have any of you guys made silly expensive errors?

Jony27 · 4 Sep 2011 at 22:06

atleast you now have spares to test if something does go wrong

BringTheRain · 4 Sep 2011 at 22:14

I did a case swap and killed my system by shorting it out :|

skookum · 4 Sep 2011 at 22:16

Jony27 said:
atleast you now have spares to test if something does go wrong

Thats been my problem got rid of all my spare stuff in the past lol. New computer and still cant use it yet.

madsin · 4 Sep 2011 at 22:20

It was a graphics card.
it took me 2 days of absalout toil to figure out i needed to plug a power cable into it.
and i mean i striped and rebuilt this thing 5 times from to to bottom.

so nope you are not alone