cokeyed

Nice avatar

Hmmm... where do i start? 1) It was my first time building a rig and I placed my brand new shiny 660ti direct CUII on the top of my tower while i did some stuff inside. I couldn't reach something in the case so I tilted it back, and I'm pretty sure you can guess what happened. Luckily only the metal piece of mount thingy got bent and I was able to bend it back with my hands, card worked perfectly fine after that. Still scary as hell. 2) 1st time setting up my watercooling loop, excited as balls!!! Flipped my shit when the jumper I was using for the 24-pin touched my case, thought it was gonna fry the PSU and the pump. *NOTHING HAPPENED* :lol: 3) Just finished sleeving & customising cables for my PSU, installed everything, boot drive doesn't show up. So I figured it was the SATA cables, checked and re-plugged all the connections, still nothing. Boot drive does not show up in the BIOS. I'm thinking, maybe there is no power going to the drive, I can hear it spin up but lets just check to be sure. Since I had already put on the rear side panel & managed to wiggle the SATA cables out, I thought I could just pull the drive out and the power cable would come off, because I made it so the wires were tight between the drives and the connectors. (stupidest idea ever) Gave it a good yank, drive came out. Went to put back the drive & powered on. *SPARKS AND SMOKE* Immediately shut off power, let it sit for a while (still pretty scared). Eventually pulled the drive out and looked around, found I had broken the SATA power connector when I pulled it out, the only thing left were the metal pins, the plastic support around it had been broken off. FUUUUUU..... bought a new board for the HDD and swapped the BIOS chip over, everything was dandy. Probably the worst and the most stupid thing I've done in PC building thus far. Looking forward to making more expensive mistakes