Computer Builds

[Tubey]

Yeh and thing is without the guys help I’d never have probably even tried another PSU. He did some trick to jump it to prove it wasn’t working.

So on Sunday, my replacement PSU (not from Amazon) should come, plug the cables in, test and that’s that hopefully.

A dead power supply is the best possible fault to have - easiest to fix as long as it hasn't blown the motherboard/CPU somehow before it died.

You'll be fine. My parents had the same issue very recently.

 

[Nymzee]

A dead power supply is the best possible fault to have - easiest to fix as long as it hasn't blown the motherboard/CPU somehow before it died.

You'll be fine. My parents had the same issue very recently.

It’ll also be my very first negative review on Amazon which I’m going to enjoy.

 

[random]

shame that spoilt your 1st self build, but hopefully you learnt enough to attempt it again when its time to upgrade.

Nothing better than building a PC to your own specifications

 

[Gwladys St. Glory]

It’ll also be my very first negative review on Amazon which I’m going to enjoy.

Don't be too harsh...shiz happens. Believe it or not, I've yet to buy a new part that was bad right out of the package and my first full build was somewhere around 20 years ago. I've been through about 7 or 8 full builds in that time; not counting others built for friends/family, which would put me well above 30 for personal use and who-the-hell-knows-how-many on the business side but I don't count those. I've been super lucky. I had one IBM 'Deskstar' (which got the "deathstar" moniker back then) HD fail on me and an old EPoX motherboard that suffered from the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague issue but those were all post build.

I've dealt with more compatibility and software issues than genuine hardware issues over the last 2 decades. You wouldn't believe how simplified it's become nowadays. No DIP switches, no jumper settings, installing a new version of DirectX doesn't FUBAR your Windows install to the point of having to clean install again, blahblahblah. It's a lot simpler now, typically...especially with all the online help.

Enjoy...

 

[Nymzee]

Don't be too harsh...shiz happens. Believe it or not, I've yet to buy a new part that was bad right out of the package and my first full build was somewhere around 20 years ago. I've been through about 7 or 8 full builds in that time; not counting others built for friends/family, which would put me well above 30 for personal use and who-the-hell-knows-how-many on the business side but I don't count those. I've been super lucky. I had one IBM 'Deskstar' (which got the "deathstar" moniker back then) HD fail on me and an old EPoX motherboard that suffered from the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague issue but those were all post build.

I've dealt with more compatibility and software issues than genuine hardware issues over the last 2 decades. You wouldn't believe how simplified it's become nowadays. No DIP switches, no jumper settings, installing a new version of DirectX doesn't FUBAR your Windows install to the point of having to clean install again, blahblahblah. It's a lot simpler now, typically...especially with all the online help.

Enjoy...

Yeh was only kidding, to be fair to Amazon I order something off there most weeks and it’s always sound, this was one just baffling to give me a dead product.

Looking back at building it, it wasn’t difficult at all in reality, I’m confident I could do another in just a couple of hours I think.

 

[Mickey]

Yeh and thing is without the guys help I’d never have probably even tried another PSU. He did some trick to jump it to prove it wasn’t working.

So on Sunday, my replacement PSU (not from Amazon) should come, plug the cables in, test and that’s that hopefully.

Paper clip test.

 

[Nymzee]

Paper clip test.

Yeh that’s the badger. Stripped a metal cable tie down.

 

[Philw]

Paper clip test.

I see some Darwin Award winners coming up in the near future...

 

[Dylan]

Paper clip test.

I cannot recommend IGNORING that video enough. Good way to electrocute yourself or start a fire.

 

[john jako]

I cannot recommend IGNORING that video enough. Good way to electrocute yourself or start a fire.

Was thinking the same thing. That’s mental lol

 

[Nymzee]

I cannot recommend IGNORING that video enough. Good way to electrocute yourself or start a fire.

I left it to the man with the paper clip in my case. I’d die for computer games but I’m not dying for a defunct PSU.

 

[Nymzee]

PSU arrived and everything is now up and running... even gone for an Everton theme.