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Sep 11, 2021 8:15 PM
gacrivastudio365
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HammerBreaker
Been there done that
Astramancer
had a mini-heart attack when I fired up my computer and NOTHING. Turns out I forgot to plug in the motherboard power cable.
Thereminista
You'll love this story: I rebuilt an older PC from the ground up, MB & all. I wanted to diagnose the MB so I left it on the table. 1 of 3
Tricorder
Accurate. :-p
mikech2000
That is why it is called The Smoke Test.
IAmDuckHammer
I yell smoke test when I turn on a computer I built, repaired, and/or upgraded.
SCP1504
So accurate.
IrrelativeTheory
Alright, who let you out of containment?
AfroInvasion
forgot the panel where they have to go back and flip on the power supply switch
ModernTenshi04
I told myself to remember to do this as I was plugging everything in for first boot a month ago and still forgot. ?♂️
sykotic1189
Ah, the stress I felt when I got an error message on the first boot only to find out I had to run power to the GPU. Never had one before...
innocuousnonsense
I built a monster.. like 5 or 6 years ago. Has the odd shutdown or freeze, like any system. But what shuts it down most? Audio glitches. Wut
GrumpyOldBoomer
Things haven’t changed much since I built my first w/ a 486DX. Sound Blaster drivers are crap.
GODzillaFH
I have one finger at the off-switch of the power supply...
MadCat221
You do know there are ways to test PSUs before you even mount it in the case, yes?
mnicholls11
Lol
sampojv
Me after my pc from America got delivered and i powered it up in the EU. I was young and no idea about different power
ridetheshoopuf
Did you get the blue smoke to go back in?
Itwasmyname
I found a switch in the back of an old printer when I was about 14. That was a loud bang.
NonstopRampage
Huh. Looks kinda like mine- without the multicolor display.
Drew442
I do the same thing when I fix someone's old garbage pile of an elevator and test it at full speed.
Lp57
I built mine, turned it on and it didn't work. Silly me put both memory sticks in thinking that in the year of our lord 2020 you could.
VibratingNipples
I’m so glad I ordered me a prebuilt pc, still waiting for it to be shipped
FelixG
Its not hard to build one, and very satisfying when it comes to life for the first time.
technicalfool
Now imagine the same thing but your CPU cost more than some entire builds, your RAM cost more than some entire builds, your loop cost more..
PikaChunin
If you have that kind of money, then you either know how to build it right, or you pay someone who does. :P
WoahMyDudeThatsCrazy
The problem is the side panel is on, if you put it on beforr making sure it boots then something WILL go wrong
RentedRedux
My motherboard flashes a blue light when first powered up. It looks like something arc'd. WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT?!
Thereminista
You'll love this story: I rebuilt an older PC from the ground up, MB & all. I wanted to diagnose the MB so I left it on the table. 1 of 3
Thereminista
2 of 3 About a month later, I'm sitting on the sofa, surfing the Web, when I hear a loud BANG. Made me jump for sure. WTF? It was that MB!
Thereminista
3 of 3 Darn thing had nothing plugged into it. Then I saw it. One large capacitor had exploded: blew the top and innards out. After a month!
Thereminista
Addenda: I found the picture of the MB! THREE caps blew at once! /a/vL1SZZW
VanZaiden
Even after tens of built PCs, I still feel uneasy when pressing the power button for the first time.
TheDeathstick
The first 386 I built years ago the power button wasn't wired to the switch. Hooked it up wrong and POOF at the wall. I needed a new mobo.
VaultGirl69
That doesn't make me nervous. What makes me nervous is the popped battery in a laptop. Pcs just either work or don't.
kayakninjas
Sometimes PCs let out the magic smoke and then it's expensive.
VaultGirl69
I've never experienced this. ?
kayakninjas
There's a fool-proof adapter on the graphics card. If you plug the wrong cable into it, you get to! And then you buy a new card and PSU. :(
VaultGirl69
Damn. Good thing I've been too broke to build/break new cards. Especially with jerks hoarding them to mine bitcoin.
kayakninjas
Right? This was before it started spiking too bad, but if it happened again, I'd be screwed.
PikaChunin
Try scraping a glued-in puffed up battery out of a macbook air. I think they bio-engineered the glue from mussels for some of them.
VaultGirl69
Oh, the last one I dealt with was an HP. And I guarantee I wouldn't try to crack that bastard open...
PikaChunin
"Boy I sure hope this doesn't rupture and burn my face off with a jet of lithium fire!"
sophitia
When you build a PC with a Gigabyte PSU.
GhostBoodakaGB
Dude fuck gigabyte so much. They fucked me over so hard with a 3080, and not because of any psu.
Bmxtucker
Gonna be real with you. Nvidia fucked you over with the 3080 not gigabyte. That card was trouble from the start.
GhostBoodakaGB
I very much disagree with that. Early revisions MAYBE, and a lot of company’s fucked it up with having poscaps instead of MLCC caps.
GhostBoodakaGB
But on the whole 3080 as long as it has the proper cooling solution and is using a proper capacitor array, should be fine. Haven’t had any
GhostBoodakaGB
Issues with any other 3080 ever, and have a 3080ti in my personal build and it’s amazing.
Xedi22
/snort/ ...I love how “certain outfit” keep working clips in to their new videos.
4vie
Has Sapphire gotten any better? I remember them being... well, *not* good a few years ago.
nowheressomethingwehopeyoullreallylike
Well, if the market is any indicator, Sapphire has some of the highest prices for any third party card shop and they stay high. If they /1
nowheressomethingwehopeyoullreallylike
Sucked, the price would drop lower than Zotac
eiebe
I love my sapphire xt5700
TeofiloPaolucci
You buy Gigabyte once.
sweetandsalty
Is gigabyte not a good brand? My motherboard is gigabyte
TeofiloPaolucci
It's usually fine, it's just usually every other option is better than gigabyte.
qtRaven
I cooked a video card & mother board at the same time this way once. Turns out I had it connected wrong.
GrumpyOldBoomer
Ouch.
qtRaven
Connection overheated & fused. In my defense, I never did it again. First time building a tower from scratch without help.
WhatzitTooya
*beeeep*beep*beep* Aaaah fuck me.
SkidMarc25
Thought I ruined my first build, forgot to flip the PSU switch before plugging it in and pushing the button...
AnOrdinaryWerewolf
Yep. This is me too, every single time!
ridetheshoopuf
Never doesn't happen. Absolutely never.
LupusLilium
Same but wasn't my first build, was my most recently computer. But I had been using laptops for so long that I kind of forgot about aspects
LupusLilium
of having a desktop. Put everything together, double and triple checked all cables. Plugged in the power supply and hit the button. . . and
LupusLilium
nothing happened. No attempt to turn anything on or boot up at all. Got worried I fucked something up, unplugged and opened the case to
LupusLilium
check all cables. Checked the cables for the case power buttons again. Plugged it again and got the same result. Was absolutely sure I got
LupusLilium
dead parts because -nothing- was out of place. As I was turning the case around to unplug it again, my eye caught the power switch.
Edgarflaps
When it fires up no problem.
RagnaroktopusInk
On the first try?!
PhailRaptor
That's when the horrible grinding noise starts...
Tsamane
"Fires"
dragonknight0464
criggie
I remember doing a really sharp single clap right behind my friend Phillip as he powered on his brand new self-assembled 386. Was hillarious
Drakhma
yup built my first one, and zero problems occurred
KharnMalik
I paid 200 bucks this time to have all my PC build and stress tested so if any parts didn't work company would replace before ship. Worth
HedonistBeard
Every single time I build a PC it doesn't start and then I realize I forgot to flip the power switch on the PSU. Every. Time.
Shorseysjapanesefightingfish
That happens literally zero of the time for me, last time the cpu pins were bent and I had to bend them back, freaking nightmare
AnIrishPotato
I upgraded to a ryzen 5 5600x recently and fucked some pins and spent 6 hours trying to fix it, thank fuck it worked in the end
AnIrishPotato
Don't think my heart can handle installing another ryzen cpu for a few years tho lmao
Zasep
Jesus
ThatCanadianGuy96
Better that than the socket pins for intel ?
Shorseysjapanesefightingfish
No those were bent too lol, i put too much pressure on the nzxt 240ml, everything on one side was bent lol
IUpvoteLOTRMemes
I tried to talk a friend into installing his new ryzen for the first time. He bent every single pin after i told him 300 time that the...
IUpvoteLOTRMemes
...heat sink would stick to his cpu after pressing it on. Bent every pin trying to seat his cooler. In his defense, ryzens design is garbage
Emrys12
I have ryzen and it couldnt have been easier? You literally get arrows how to put it in both on the mobo, and chip itself so it aligns, 1/2
IUpvoteLOTRMemes
Yes, he put it in fine. But the thermal paste stuck to it and as he kept trying to seat his cooler, he didnt notice he was bending all...
talianagisan
I almost had a first try after i put all my internals into a new case. But i fucking forgot to plug in the GPU power as i'm dumb.
onlyhalfghost
I'll do you one better: forgot the main power switch on the back.
ihavethelowground
Hope you weren't using the Nzxt H1 case or a gigabyte power supply.
IAmDuckHammer
Good thing I'm using a better PSU in my build and my mom's computer.
Loupgarou746
What's wrong with the h1 case?
sixtimesseven
It self heats https://youtu.be/9XIKOSrQdQ0
Loupgarou746
Thanks for the info ?
MaladaptedMedic
Umm, I’ve got a gigabyte PSU… should I be worried?
ThatCanadianGuy96
Yes, they are shorting out and electrically exploding. Lookup the video from GamersNexus about it
Dimestream
I had one of those for four years, no problems. Was a while ago, though. Must be current-gen ones.
ThatCanadianGuy96
It’s mostly to do with the OCP being set too high meaning the internals fail before the failsafe even gets a chance to do it’s job
djcoffi
Yeah a current model has some small explosive issues.
AvsFreak
DaLwkiz
Now you're giving me PTSD of what happened on march after I got my vaccine.
Lovethesmelloftoastedsourdoughbread
no, No, NO!!! I'm still recovering.
Daxton
incubisexual
I want to sue this image for damages
Jarjarthejedi
IWasACatAllAlong
hrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr (that's the sound it makes when it's dying)
Kilsta
I AM the system's Administrator!
3minence
Damn high energy cosmic particles
AK90
GiantSquanchy
LOL I hate that shit, older computers would have a shit time detecting usb keyboards, and you would have to dust off an old PS/2 keyboard.
AK90
Legit thats what happened here xD
Xedi22
Thankfully you could usually turn stopping in that error off... well, with a keyboard you could. :)
kaymon
3Davideo
Oh sweet innocent computer, you will NEVER be safe.
ComoSeIguana
Is it? Is it really?
Daxton
Holy fuck I almost forgot BSOD looked like that, I've become so accustomed to Windows going :(
AreYouABadPerson
Your computer made a fucky wucky.
Daxton
Thanks I hate it
AreYouABadPerson
Welcome, citizen.
XVUltima
I hated that screen mocking me. I accidentally knocked a $4k PC off of my desk, killing it permanently, and the screen has the nerve to :(
AvsFreak
I remember this oldie too lol
hetriedtokillmewithaforklift
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/350/661/dc8.png
Domehammer
That BSOD is so nice, the old one is probably something some would say gives them PTSD.
SerenePrincess013
Gave*
Daxton
Oh I agree 100%, it immediately gives me flashbacks to the days of WinME and the "illegal operation" error immediately followed by a BSOD.
Daxton
*shudders*
LordoftheLulz