Urgent help part way through first build

Piesanfries · 31 May 2014 at 17:22

Hi all I'm currently mid way through my first ever build, I'm a bit stuck,

I have a corsair carbide spec 03 case and gigabyte z97 d3h

I've come to fitting the motherboard in the case and the peer installed stand offs do not aline with my motherboard as I know if I do this wrong it will wreck the system what do I need to do ? Is this common ?

Puppetmaster · 31 May 2014 at 17:29

When you say do not align, do you mean they are a little bit out or way off?

NoNameNoNumber · 31 May 2014 at 17:30

Have you go the I/O shield fitted properly?

Piesanfries · 31 May 2014 at 17:31

Way off the case has them in rows of 3s the board only has to 2,3,2 configuration

Piesanfries · 31 May 2014 at 17:31

NoNameNoNumber said:
Have you go the I/O shield fitted properly?

Yep

The board is an standard size atx board by the way

Danny75 · 31 May 2014 at 17:39

Apologies for pursing this, but sometimes the I/O panel has little clips that have to be lifted up, to allow the motherboard's I/O ports to fit properly (and the motherboard to slide a little further into position). You'd be able to see if that's the case by looking at the I/O panel from the back and seeing if any of the ports are blocked by such clips. If that isn't it, please ignore this.

tamzzy · 31 May 2014 at 17:40

the board is not a full fat atx board
full atx size is 305mm (l) x 244mm (w)
the z97 d3h is actually only 305 x 214 mm, so i guess just screw in as many mounting screws as you can =x

lee32uk · 31 May 2014 at 17:40

Try it without the i/o shield in to see if it lines up.

Piesanfries · 31 May 2014 at 17:41

No mate it's not that it's more my board doesn't have as many holes as the case has stand offs

Piesanfries · 31 May 2014 at 17:41

tamzzy said:
the board is not a full fat atx board
at size is 305mm (l) x 244mm (w)
the z97 d3h is actually 305 x 214 mm

What are the implications of this?..

Piesanfries · 31 May 2014 at 17:42

tamzzy said:
the board is not a full fat atx board
full atx size is 305mm (l) x 244mm (w)
the z97 d3h is actually only 305 x 214 mm, so i guess just screw in as many mounting screws as you can =x

Will it not short the board of there is a stand off touching it but no screw through it?

tamzzy · 31 May 2014 at 17:46

oh..
i dont own the case so i cant advise you directly, but i think i know what u mean
im guessing the case offers extra stand off points for different size mobos, all you have to do is just install the stand offs for atx-sized boards. and remove the rest of the standoffs

Danny75 · 31 May 2014 at 17:46

tamzzy said:
oh..
i dont own the case so i cant advise you directly, but i think i know what u mean
im guessing the case offers extra stand off points for different size mobos, all you have to do is just install the stand offs for atx-sized boards. and remove the rest of the standoffs

Bingo, I think.

Piesanfries · 31 May 2014 at 17:47

tamzzy said:
oh..
i dont own the case so i cant advise you directly, but i think i know what u mean
im guessing the case offers extra stand off points for different size mobos, all you have to do is just install the stand offs for atx-sized boards. and remove the rest of the standoffs

This is what I thought but being my first I wanted to check they can be removed so I'll just do that scared of making an error

tamzzy · 31 May 2014 at 17:50

they *should* be removable
as always post a pic of what you mean. a pic is so much easier to work with and saves misinterpretation

los · 31 May 2014 at 20:01

Yeah make sure that you only have standoffs fitted that line up with your mobo screw holes, your right if a standoff does touch the board somewhere else then thats very bad!