Trying to build pc , so lost

[JayBee805]

My brother in law and I are trying to build a pc but we’re so lost !! Here are some pictures so far ... 

[brob]

Pictures are nice but you haven't provided any data to help us understand what your issues are.

 

What is the motherboard?

 

Do you have any particular questions?

 

Do you have memory?

 

Why is a cell phone sitting on top of the gpu?

[GoldenLag]

Seems fine to me. 

 

Just connect the CPU power connector

 

Plug in the OS driver or the drive the OS will be on.

 

Also Ramsticks

 

 

Unless you are having other issues. 

[JayBee805]

19 hours ago, brob said:

Pictures are nice but you haven't provided any data to help us understand what your issues are.

 

What is the motherboard?

 

Do you have any particular questions?

 

Do you have memory?

 

Why is a cell phone sitting on top of the gpu?

Asus prime z370-a 

 

yes we don’t know where to connect any of the little “power sw” little cables we plug them in where we believe they go but pc doesn’t turn on .. 

 

yes 16 gb ballistix 

 

that was my my brother in law I know it’s dumb .. Also we don’t know where any of the cables plug into the psu or where they go we are completely lost 

[alittlepeace]

Is the power supply connected in the top left of the board?

It doesn't look like you've routed anything up there yet

Also, can you take a picture of how you have the little power sw cables plugged in?

[JayBee805]

18 hours ago, alittlepeace said:

It doesn't look like you've routed anything up there yet

It wasn’t but we did and still nothing ? The motherboard goes on but that’s it ? Also where do I connect the little usb cable from aio cooler to? 

 

18 hours ago, alittlepeace said:

Also, can you take a picture of how you have the little power sw cables plugged in?

We have tried plugging them in a diff way every time but no luck .. it’s 3 am in Cali so we’re done for the night , but I’ll b sure to post pics tomorrow thank you!

[alittlepeace]

Ok, so the power supply turns on?

 

18 hours ago, JayBee805 said:

It wasn’t but we did and still nothing ? The motherboard goes on but that’s it ? Also where do I connect the little usb cable from aio cooler to? 

connects to that

[JayBee805]

Yes it turns on the motherboard , but we don’t know where the little usb cable from the aio cooler goes into ?

[alittlepeace]

Just now, JayBee805 said:

Yes it turns on the motherboard , but we don’t know where the little usb cable from the aio cooler goes into ?

see above

[JayBee805]

Just now, alittlepeace said:

connects to that

 

I will try that tomorrow , check back here ! Thanks for your help man appreciate it it’s our first time a little overwhelming 

[alittlepeace]

Just now, JayBee805 said:

I will try that tomorrow , check back here ! Thanks for your help man appreciate it it’s our first time a little overwhelming 

Just take it slowly

[JayBee805]

Just now, alittlepeace said:

see above

Also we don’t know which cables we use to power up the gpu 

[alittlepeace]

18 hours ago, JayBee805 said:

Also we don’t know which cables we use to power up the gpu 

Can I see the other end of the cables you have plugged into your gpu?

 

To hook up the video card:

Take those EVGA cables out of the GPU, you won't need them

Take this cable from the power supply kit:

 

It will have 2 connectors that say "pci-e" on the end with little 2 pin things that dangle off. Connect the other end with the solid 8 pins into here:

 

The other two ends will plug into here on the video card



For one of them, lock the 2 pin piece onto the 6 pin piece and slide them in together into the 8 pin hole
The other hole will just take the 6 pin without the 2 pin piece

[step40]

I feel you bro, my first pc took 48 hours and i literally had no idea about cables.You asked about power switch cables,with your motherboard comes a plastic thing u put your speaker power switch power led cables in it.You put the little cables in it.You look at the names of both sides and just put the cable where the name is.Then this plastic thing i posted goes into your mainboard in F_Panel (Front Panel header)You have put your atx24 pin right and also the psu cables into your video card right.The third cable above you didnt put goes again into mainboard Atx 12V.I learned everything from internet and mainboard manual.Read again your mainboard manual and everything should make sense.

[JayBee805]

17 hours ago, step40 said:

I feel you bro, my first pc took 48 hours and i literally had no idea about cables.You asked about power switch cables,with your motherboard comes a plastic thing u put your speaker power switch power led cables in it.You put the little cables in it.You look at the names of both sides and just put the cable where the name is.Then this plastic thing i posted goes into your mainboard in F_Panel (Front Panel header)You have put your atx24 pin right and also the psu cables into your video card right.The third cable above you didnt put goes again into mainboard Atx 12V.I learned everything from internet and mainboard manual.Read again your mainboard manual and everything should make sense.

Thanks it worked !

 

Cpu fan error what’s this ?!

 

I got to this point but now I don’t know what to do from here at all so lost we are

 

Is this correct ? 

[CodeNova]

6 hours ago, JayBee805 said:

Is this correct ? 

You should have a power and data cable going to your HDD.

Edit: sata cable

[JayBee805]

6 hours ago, CodeNova said:

You should have a power and data cable going to your HDD.

Edit: sata cable

Found it , but now the pc won’t turn on at all just the motherboard . But it won’t turn on anymore 

[CodeNova]

2 minutes ago, JayBee805 said:

Found it , but now the pc won’t turn on at all just the motherboard . But it won’t turn on anymore 

Could you go into a bit more detail.

[JayBee805]

1 minute ago, CodeNova said:

Could you go into a bit more detail.

It was turning on fine and booting up , but I hadn’t connected the hard drive . I connected hard drive then I powered it on and it wouldn’t ... 

[JayBee805]

Only the motherboard is on like that but once I tried to push the power on button nothing goes on anymore ?

[CodeNova]

Dose it 'still' post with no hardrive plugged in?

uploading a picture with the hard drive plugged in would also help too.

[JayBee805]

2 minutes ago, CodeNova said:

Dose it 'still' post with no hardrive plugged in?

uploading a picture with the hard drive plugged in would also help too.

 

[CodeNova]

5 minutes ago, JayBee805 said:

 

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I'm sorry, I should have been clearer. I ment to say, post a picture of the hard-drive with both power and sata connected. The sata cable goes from the drive to the motherboard.

[JayBee805]

1 minute ago, CodeNova said:

I'm sorry, I should have been clearer. I ment to say, post a picture of the hard-drive with both power and sata connected. The sata cable goes from the drive to the motherboard.

 

[CodeNova]

2 minutes ago, JayBee805 said:

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Dose this help? also there are some great sources on youtube that may help.