Moving my prebuilt system to new case

D1craig

D1craig

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I am moving my prebuilt system to a new case - enthoo luxe. I will be doing this tomorrow.

Can people offer me some advice please? I have never done this kind of in on my PC before. All I have ever done is install an SSD changed the GPU and added a H55.

Do I need to plug my HDs into the same spot they where originally in on the motherboard?

Anything a noob like me should know about this stuff would be appreciated.
 
Indeed, keep every in the same socket to rule out any possible issues.

But take your time and check everything twice. :)

What is your old and new cases?
 
I got told this by the guy that helped me build my first PC. If you plug your PC into the wall but dont turn anything on, the case should be grounded. Then if you keep touching the metal of the case, it should remove all static :)
 
I have an inwin fanqua case and I am sticking it into an enthoo luxe. Thanx for the help guys.

First thing I ever done on a PC was install a stick of ram. The second time I did this something went wrong and I had to replace everything but the stick of ram I had bought. That was about 2004. So I took a step back and bought a prebuilt one 2-3 years ago. Now I'm ready to do my own after seeing how this goes.
 
Ok so I took pictures. Obviously not enough lol.

I have the long wire from my PSU (plenty of them) and they have the same connector about 6 times all the way to the end of it. Can I plug more than one thing into each wire?
 
So what about the PWM hub? That has a little warning on it telling me to read the manual.

Says "sata 12v power input".

I think my mono is that old it's not telling me the stuff it's needs to lol.

Been at it for 2 hours now and I am enjoying it. Just doing things in the wrong order lol.

It's a p8z68v-lx
 
Yeah just plug in one of the sata powers into it. Then I believe it plugs into the CPU fan header, then the fans plug into the hub. Then it will be controllable.

I think ...
 
Yea I have everything plugged in :)

USB is my last connector. It has got to be the front panel USB.

Then I have to sort my lighting out.

Thanx for the help.

I can't imagine doing this in a smaller case with less cable management. Breeze to work with sun a case for your first time.
 
You should see my case. It's tiny, I've had to mod it to fit the watercooling stuff in and there NO cable management!

Good to see you like it :) it's a downward spiral from now on! :D
 
Because of the Velcro straps I had all my cables bunched up to get into them which caused some problems - bulge on side of my case. So I had to take some of the cables out of them and spread them a little more. Looks awesomely neat from the side window just needed some LEDs on my gpu or CPU heatsink etc.

Anyway had a quick test. When it boots up I get a "fan error" any ideas about that? I did a Google and they all talked about a "CPU fan problem" so not 100% the same.

I can't do anymore until tomorrow. So any helpful tips for that would be good.

Can't wait to get a full new system.
 
That's usually because there isn't anything connected to the CPU fan header, which means the CPU would get very hot but as you've got the fan controller in there it shouldn't do? You can bypass it and or, turn it off in the bios. I had to do this.
 
And it will be ok if I hat disable the monitoring of the fans? They all say "n/a" in the bios next to speed.

I would like to have some control over them.

Will my PC still ramp the fans up when the load gets higher?
 
ive gone and disabled my monitor of cpu fan. everything seems fine. ran a valley benchmark and cpu nevr passed 50C, although CPUTIN gets as hot as 92C.

still i would like to see the speed of my fans somehow.
 
oh i forgot to mention this - i found this little things that i dont recall unplugging from the motherboard once i removed it from the old case - it was like a tiny plug - similar to the front I/O panel plugs but it had a little round thing at the end of it that said speaker on it. WTF is that? is it important that i didnt stick it back on? i have no idea where it would go mind and everything seems to be working fine.
 
D1craig said:
oh i forgot to mention this - i found this little things that i dont recall unplugging from the motherboard once i removed it from the old case - it was like a tiny plug - similar to the front I/O panel plugs but it had a little round thing at the end of it that said speaker on it. WTF is that? is it important that i didnt stick it back on? i have no idea where it would go mind and everything seems to be working fine.
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Sounds like a speaker to attach to the motherboard so you can hear the POST beeps (if a PC cannot complete the initial POST it will beep to show what's wrong and there's usually a list in the motherboard manual showing what combination of beeps relate to which issue). Not important at all, unless your PC cannot boot up at which point it can be invaluable! :D
 
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