Have you ever fucked up the process of building a PC?

Have you ever fucked up the process of building a PC?
For all the "building a PC is the EASIEST thing in the world" nerd talk I've been surrounded by my whole life, now that I've actually done it, I'm really surprised at how many things can go wrong. How you need to apply enough pressure for a piece that you feel you're one push away from breaking something major, how pins align but don't go all the way in, dealing with voltage (if your PSU is from another country), going back a step and unplug something to make space for another thing that goes first (if your case is small), how easy it is to handle something the wrong way, etc. This shit ain't lego. Honestly, some props to these kids.

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the hardest thing I ever had to deal with building a PC was when my case fans had 5 pin cables but the mobo only had 4 pin headers. Turns out they were RGB fans and I forgot they came with a controller that converted the 5's to 4's for the header. Shit's easy, OP.

Yeah. One time I took a wrench and twisted up the metal between expansion slots on my case to make my graphics card fit better. As it turns out, that wasn't necessary nor was I strong enough to rip the whole strip of metal out.

One day it started turning off seconds after powering on so I took the computer to a repair store. The guy saw the damage I did and he looked at me like I was a barbarian. He said, 'You did this?' and I replied, 'W-well, it's not the worst thing you've ever seen here, right?'.

Why would you think that's a good idea?

>you're one push away from breaking something major
No you don't if you not retarded gorilla.
> how pins align but don't go all the way in
What pins? In my PC they all do.
>dealing with voltage (if your PSU is from another country)
Where did you managed to find non-switching PSU? In your grandma basement?
> going back a step and unplug something to make space for another thing that goes first (if your case is small)
What's a thinking ahead?
Just admit that you are not very bright.

I dunno. I was 21, high, and thought my graphics card wasn't fitting properly. I was getting annoyed I wasn't gaming yet.

I've gotten a little better over 6 years.

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Worst thing that happened was forgetting to attach the i/o shield to the case.

this, though it's usually not even a huge problem.

Other than that it's super easy, OP. maybe you should just accept that you're a bit slow.

It's near impossible to break anything, I had one of those shitty coolers with the plastic pins and I had to force it so hard my mobo bent like a motherfucker, still didn't do any damage

Not really FUCKED up, as in there was never any irreparable damage, but I did have my fair share of panic attacks an OH GOD WHY ME moments when I had to take half-built rig apart again, like when I forgot to attach the base of the cooler that goes on the back of the motherboard and such

the only thing gives me trouble every single time is the fucking motherboard power cable, you know, the big one

not only is it hard to get it, but it's REALLY fucking hard to get out, fucking hell

>Buy the i7-8700k with Socket 1151
>Buy Motherboard with Socket 1151
>Assemble PC
>Doesn't Start
>Figure out there is a 1151 v2 and i7-8700k requires 1151 v2 and those cunts didn't adjust the online spec accordingly

They should have just given it a different name

It's not difficult. It actually is a lot like lego.

I find attaching the CPU power cables to be annoying if the mainboard is already in the case, especially if you have to dealth wiunth a huge CPU cooler (think NH-D15).
Might actually try plugging in the power cables before putting the board into the case, then routing the cables.

Sorry OP but I think you might be stupid.

That's why you always look at chipset, not socket.

The kid in OPs photo has some smarts to build a PC, but no more than alll the others that've done the same. Good luck to him, but it ain't newsworthy (even for local news)

if you can't plug the correct plug into the correct socket you don't deserve a PC

For all we know he can follow youtube tutorials and has basic reading comprehension.
Then again i've seen adults who can do neither.

worst that happened was cut my hand open on heat sink blades and had a few drops of blood on my mobo. isopropyl alcohol fixed that right up aye

Exactly. So he must have at least a functioning brain

its like a lego thing with less than 10 legos

This

It can be a little nerve-wracking working with 100's of dollars worth of components, especially when you have to apply significant pressure to some sockets in, but ultimately it's pretty easy to put together a computer.

The one thing I broke is that USB 3 header, was apparently slightly off while putting the cable in and it bent all the pins

It's because he's black

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I was a bit worred about fucking up when installing my waterblock and the rest of my loop, but it went fine in the end.

computers are harder to kill now unless you are a ham-fisted gorilla

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PC wouldn't turn on because I fucked up the front panel cabling. Minor issue but still annoying because it keeps happening.

Just last week I ordered a case that did not accommodate a 5.25" drive when a mATX motherboard is installed, so I drilled a hole slightly further out on the 5.25" bracket, and chopped the fan power connector off the motherboard so the drive could slide into place. Slapped some black electrical tape onto it and called it a day. Works great, though on my part it should still be called a fuck up because I ordered the part without knowing this limitation beforehand.

don't you have a no questions asked returns policy for about a week?

Yes, but I had already put everything else into the case, and did not know of an alternative case that met my size preferences (roughly 15"x8"x15") while still having a 5.25" drive bay and being less than $200, so I just stuck with it and juryrigged it.

I've built a full-powered PC in Node 202 case, luckily I've made only a few mistakes:
1. Inserted PSU the wrong side up so it wasn't getting cooled by the fan
2. Ordered a 12.5 2.5 inch HDD, but apparently you can only install 7.5 drives in the drive bay. So I had to do some makeshift adjustments and actually screw the drive to the outside of the bay.
3. Put the cooler in the wrong place. It wasn't actually helping much, I had to move it above the CPU, but it still looks retarded.

But by now I fixed all of those problems and only have some smaller improvements to make.

no, because I'm not retarded and assembling a bunch of ikea parts is easy
if you had problems with it or thought it difficult, maybe you should re-evaluate your life

You should have tried building dual socket workstations with a SCSI RAID. Shit is so easy now.

Please use the word assemble in the future.

>assemble my first pc
>plug it into monitor, wall socket
>momentoftruth.jpg
>hit the power button
>it doesnt turn on
>oh fuck what the shit did i do wrong
>check the back of the case
>power supply switch was off

I fuck with wire, plc and feelers all day in small spaces, assembling a pc doesnt get my hands wet

Honestly it's not that hard, it's like the hive mind mentality that installing Gentoo or Arch etc is hard. It isn't, it just takes some patience.

I forgot to plug in the power cable to my HDD.

i put so much thermal paste it actually dripped into my graphics card. I used none conducting shit, but still.

And then there is this faggot...

if you have trouble ordering compatible parts and assembling a PC you might be an average IQ nigger

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The only things I've fucked up is pins on the mobo and broke off ssd cable pins. I also ruined an ssd formating it wrong. Other than that just minor things like mixing up the power and reset buttons on the mobo.

Lol I put artic silver 5 on an old gtx 660 I'm afraid to turn it on after finding out not to use conductive paste.

>breaks the pins for the reset sw due to me accidentally pulling the fan (cable got stuck in between and took off the pin). REEEEEEEEEEE

i forgot the i/o plate, i didn't realize until i plugged it in. at that point the side panels were on and everything was cable managed...

I convinced my parents to get me a pc for my bday in 8th grade for future highschool stuff, really rts and civ games. Dad decided we would build one he was a network admin. He ordered the mobo gpu and cpu. He was gonna steal the other parts from work and borrow Enterprise Win 7. Eager to get started before he got home I decided to mount the cpu and cooler. How hard can it be? I mounted the cpu alright but I figured you were supposed to use the whole syringe of paste. I saw the paste ooze out as pressed the cooler on. I knew it wasn't right, I pulled the cpu out, got paste on my hands couldn't get the cooler off, bent some pins, got paste between pins and all over. Dad comes in and I'm welling up in frustration. He just laughed, I yell help me. He twists the cpu off and leaves, brings in the first aid kit and grabs the alcohol swabs. He hands me a credit card says to straighten the pins while he cleans the cooler. Then he gives me a swab and watches me painstakingly try to get paste off the pins. Let dry over night. I used it for 7 years.

>tfw I te has to keep the goyim in fear but can’t be arsed to design another socket

Made 6 pcs, forgotten this 3 times :(

I'd say more like bionicles but maybe thats just me

It's grooved so you don't fuck it up...

Unplug case USB ports and just use your mobo ones or a splitter

>high
don't fucking bring drugs into the mix you tried something stupid that's all.

Only two fuckups in my life, both with the same computer. I fell for the ITX meme, I took a fully functioning Haswell computer and moved it into an ITX case. First motherboard I bought the cooler (Phanteks PH-TC14PE didn't fit because of the socket placement. That motherboard ended up being DOA anyway and with the new one I was able to just barely squeeze it in.

Second fuckup was trying to use a PWM fan hub. The instructions for the hub said to use the CPU fan header for the input which I did, but with it set up that way the computer would not boot. Ditched the fan hub and it all worked.

God dammit I do this every time

>Have you ever fucked up the process of building a PC?
Plugged the internal USB front header wrong once (before physical guides / single block plugs were commonplace), fireworks ensued
Plugged an optical drive while the computer was running once, killed the drive and probably fucked the computer since it died a couple month latter
tried to unplug a SATA cable with a locking mechanism from the mobo once but the whole thing came along, thankfully it was one of those mobo that need RAID mode to access all SATA ports so no real issue there

Then there's times where I came close to breaking things but didn't somehow
>new A64 4000+ build
>get a Thermaltake Blue Orb 2 because I wanna OC
>how hard should I tighten it
>start going too hard
>mobo starts bending uncomfortably
>about 2cm difference between center and edge
>unscrew a bit
>nothing broken
>now can't fit GPU because of it
>start grinding it down
>without removing it
>metal shaving fucking everywhere inside slots under the socket etc
>try to clean it as best I can
>everything works somehow
>stable 3Ghz

All those happened before I was 16.

>buy amd cpu
>buy intel board

the single biggest fuck up of my whole PC building career

Agreed. I made the mistake of attaching the CPU cooler and inserting the mobo into the case BEFORE attaching wiring to the mobo. Had to take out the GPU in order to fit my hands into the case.

It should be like this:

- attach CPU to mobo
- insert cables into PSU
- insert PSU into case, with loose cables hanging out
- place mobo into case but don't screw in
- attach PSU cables to mobo while in case
- screw mobo to case
- attach CPU cooler to mobo
- insert RAM
- insert GPU

>Building first pc
>Drop the CPU
>Lands on the pins

Spent all fucking day with a microscope and tweezers bending all the pins back.

>tfw it still worked

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>CPU cooler before RAM

>locking the CPU into place
CPU is moving horizontally in the socket
>feels like I'm bending the pins

>Mini ITX case
>CPU cooler partially blocks ceiling fan and rear fan
>excuse_me_wtf.gif

>motherboard manul doesn't include beep code chart
>doesn't even mention beep codes
>doesn't mention that you have to buy the speaker separately

Only time a computer has ever been completely fucked by something I did was when I was messing around with custom themes on windows xp. Managed to complete fuck the drive. Was only an 80gb but muh porn.

obligatory

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First time building, I forgot to take the plastic tsticker from the bottom of the heatsink.
I remembered a day or two later when I woke up and was thinking to myself if I forgot to do anything like 'take of the sticker from the bottom of the CPU cooler'
Don'th think I reapplied thermal paste either since there was plenty on the CPU.

My heatsink came with thermal paste pre-applied. I had never heard of that before.

The worst thing I did was accidentally wire my power switch wrong so if the computer is plugged in it immediately turns itself on.

But that computer needs to always be on so I just left it.

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based tech-dad.

kek fucking computer magic

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custom themes destroyed your hard drive? is that what you're saying?

>dealing with voltage (if your PSU is from another country)

You just made me realize that I ordered a PSU from America (60Hz), but I live in Tokyo (50Hz). How fucked am i?

The first time I built a PC I thought the power supply fan needed to be connected to the mobo through one one of the wires coming out of the psu. None of the wires seemed to fit a fan slot on the mobo at first until I found a 4 pin molex to a 3 pin fan adapter and now it was all connected. PC made a weird sound and failed to boot when I tried turning it on, multiple times too. Luckily nothing got damaged and I figured out that the psu fan didn't need to be connected to the mobo.

This one time about a decade ago I tried to upgrade my desktop on my own for the first time. I got an MSI 750GM-E51 FX motherboard, 16 GB on 2 DDR3 RAM sticks, a GTX 750 Ti and an AMD FX-4300 processor. However, whenever I tried to boot the system it would BSOD as soon as the cursor showed up. I eventually took it to the PC repair shop that had originally built it for me years before when I was still in high school. They told me the processor was not compatible with the motherboard even though it said on the box that it was compatible with the FX series. They ended up putting in an AMD Phenom II X4 processor for me and it worked fine.

>evga.com/products/specs/psu.aspx?pn=50304c42-960f-48bb-a68f-4f934d4df894
Looks like I might be okay, but I'll check when I get home. That was too close for comfort. I almost inadvertently fried my mobo.

Not at all based teacher

I think I fucked up my RAM slots trying to get the fucking things to get in there. I can't believe how much fucking force they required to snap in.

The cable on my CPU cooler bends out into the top fan blades. I had to use a twist tie to keep it from jamming the fan.

I built my pc pretty easily, but I don't have power led but every thing works fine.

This is all true except:
>In my PC they all do.
This is the equivalent of "works on my machine"

molex never align right

>dropping the mobo in
>stand offs not aligning
>mobo bending
>gfx bending to meet io shield
>io shield not clipping in
>cable moved and now clips against one of the fans
FUCK

>I also ruined an ssd formating it wrong
Partition magic can salvage that

>fan hub
faulty fan hub bruh

>tightening cooler
>it swivels and moves depending on which screws got tightened first
>even when doing them equally a bit at a time it's never straight
>adjust so many times paste starts leaking

forgot to check ram compatibility when building mine.

it didn't fail outright but its been a constant source of minor hard to diagnose issues that have been building up to more serious crashes recently.

Thank God that we're seeing less and less of this plug. The cheap ones are hell, but the quality ones aren't too bad.

What in the name of fuck?

Cases nowadays come with smaller screws

I fucked up a few since I'm using a regular screwdriver, I needed to drill them out and buy new ones

Friend sent me a pic of his rig he built

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>>gfx bending to meet io shield
Also gfx bending from gravity
Like WAT

I put two EVGA 9800 gtx+'s, an intel i7 920 on a shitty scavenged chinkshit 300ish watt power supply. It actually booted with some wrangling from an adapter kit. Thought I was hot shit until a few days later my PSU legit exploded while playing WoW. It smelled like burning then started popping and smoking and sounding like firecrackers. No further hardware damage and was honestly funny as hell looking back at it.

I didn't secure my cpu cooler fully one time and my cpu rocketed to 99c within a few seconds of a task for about an hour before I realized this and fixed it. Also plugged shit into wrong headers on mobo and spent 4 hrs troubleshooting.... You can fuck it up, most cucks here on Jow Forums probably have at some point when they were new but they'll never admit it. Just watch videos on it and do it yourself when you are able to.

fucking kek

>forget to plug in cpu fan
>go in bios
>accidently check "disable automatic thermal shutdown"
>literal housefire

I’ve built about half a dozen now. Worst thing that ever happened was I hamhanded the pins on the only usb 3 header I had access to from my case basement (board goes right up to the surface and only one was above a cutout ). It was pretty bad so attempts to bend them straight only ended up snapping one of the pins. Oh well no frontpanel usb3 on my current rig not that I’d even use it really. I’ve had far more problems with equipment failures and software issues than actual assembly fuckups. The worst of all these was pump dying/full loop blockage on a 1 year old AIO.

>mb not grounded properly
>booting
>gpu justk ind of laying there
>EVER getting that shit to work

C'mon guys, you know better than this

>he bought Ryzen but chose RAM with bad timings
>he bought an AMD GPU
>he bought a crappy Corsair PSU
>he bought a case with a sealed glass front panel because it "looked cool"
>he bought NVME for a gaming build
>he bought two GPUs for twice the performance
>he bought parts for open loop cooling for his first build
>he didn't seat his RAM properly
>he didn't use the perfect amount of thermal paste
>he didn't use standoffs on the motherboard tray
>he couldn't figure out how to plug in the front panel connectors