Installing psu....

[# 13]

well i got my replacement PSU today and i installed it myself bear in mind i have zero/nil experience what so ever in this kind of thing so to say i was worried was an understatement but any way i cracked on

i looked at all the cables and it was pretty much strait forward all was labeled i just had to match it up to the parts, there was 1 worrying moment tho when i plugged all connections into the mobo, and powered on to see if it worked but there was a high pitch squeal, turns out i needed to have the gfx card plugged in also, with the gfx card pluged in i turned it on again and i got the disc boot failure so i no its working i finshed connecting the molexs to the fans and the sata cables to the HDD and powered on and it all booted as normal

all in all it was relativity painless and quite strait forward and it saved me £40 by doing it myself, i nearly posted on OcUK for a lil help but i got there it gives me confidence now so i wont panic as much if anything like this should happen again

yeah so its fixed and i can enjoy CoD4 again now

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Yay!

 

[Slinky1989]

You win an internet! I mean, a working computer! \o/

 

[mp260767]

nice one, good to see the systems back in action

 

[misterPK]

Servicing your computer yourself really isnt as difficult as most people think. Well done and welcome to the club.

On a bit of a picky note you might want to tweak your sig a bit. Zefan (official sig mod) will get grumpy if its more than 4 lines!

PK!

 

[thefishdude]

congrats as others said soing ya own pc stuff isnt as hard you first thing and first fear.

bet that squeal gave you aafright though lol

 

[# 13]

...bet that squeal gave you aafright though lol

just a little bit lol i dropped 1 big time i didn't no what the hell i had done wrong as far as i knew I'd buggered the whole system as the squeal didn't sound right at all

 

[PhillyDee]

Ive done it too And ive built loads of systems. The squeal panics the hell out of you.

 

[artaxerxes]

I remember cracking open my first PC - and the wariness I had then! Top work on getting it to work.

 

[waso_dude]

Niceone

It seems daunting at first but take your time and your be fine, computers aren't massively hard to put together - but its scarey when you think about the money involved and the electricity.

 

[# 13]

i wont be as nervous next time tho but its got it outta the way now so alls good

 

[AgedIdiot]

No matter how many times - there's always , for me anyway, the two thoughts

Will it work?
and
What have I forgotten?

The squeal was 'new' to me after forgetting to plug in after installing new cooler on gpu - scared the living .... out of me and it's amazing how such a noise just 'blanks' you for a few sec's when heard for the first time.

 

[PhillyDee]

I just dived for the power switch! It wasnt on a new build, but i was tidying cables and forgot to plug it back in. I have excellent reactions to anything like that.