How was your pc building experience?

[Dariru]

There's always that one standoff that you forget to put in.

[MariusJS]

I picked up the completed build after boot testing in order to move it under the desk and I dropped it in the process. I bent the case, cracked the mobo (from the weight of the Cooler Master v8) , destroyed two brand new hard drives, and crushed my big toe.

This made me laugh so much :D

[MariusJS]

Having my PC on my bed testing watercooling with dye...

[Boosted_i6]

I didn't use a screw driver to finish installing the standoffs...half of them were completely loose a year later

I also used IDE instead of AHCI

[Zack]

On my first build, I forgot the motherboard standoffs. I felt like an idiot.

[fredey]

I didn't think I'd care about cable management but when the sidepanel didn't close I cared

[Rhizo]

Spent half an hour trying to put the 6+2 pcie power into 8 pin cpu power... Oh how irritated I was.

[dgtL]

ohh man. oversights can happen even to the experienced user. Just the other day my network went down and i called my isp because i couldn't figure out what was wrong with my network. turns out a friend had hit the router power outlet so all i had to do was push the plug back in. lmao. I told the tech not to say anything. :o

[ThatOtherGuy95]

getting an amd bulldozer 6100

[Computer Steroids]

Buying a high end SSD only to notice my board didn't have sata 600.

[Night]

I purchased my video card a few months after I built my first rig which was march last year. I didnt install the drivers before I started using it so my moniters didnt work so I had to run one of my motherboard and then the other off the video card.

Was a bit messy but that was the only problem I encountered for my entire build.

[Zuhairster]

burnt the MOBO.. not paying attention to static :(

which also cause the HDD to burn as well.. :(

[Winther]

Touching the contacts on the RAM sticks, did that with my first pc build..

[RainColt]

-FORGOT THE STANDOFFS [shock-horror] for the Motherboard. I realized they where important after remembering the back of a motherboard is not flat and VERY conductive.

- Too much thermal interface material [paste] - It didn't make an issue, but it was silver based, and after applying a much thinner layer [2/3 of a grain of rice for a AM3 heat spreader] temperatures where down 5-10*C.

- Not pushing RAM [DIMMs] in fully, though I didn't start the computer.

-Letting a PGA [Athlon II 64] type CPU fall out of my hands. straightening that many pins wasn't fun, but I managed it after a few days. At least Sandy-E chips aren't PGA ;)

I have totally dropped the processor to, i was trying to put it into the box and i looked away to continue with something else and my other hand just slapped the processor to the ground, needless to say lefty got the cold shoulder that night. lol

[RainColt]

I had no issues putting my first build together until i tried to boot it up, i had no idea what to do so i brought it in to the local shop and they fixed it for me for like 150$ I pulled my rig apart and when putting it back together had the same issue, this time i had learnt and played with it, turns out I had to plug the hard drives into specific sata ports , still not sure which ones but guess and check got me running,

[RainColt]

I also made mistakes on my most recent build, I fit everything into the case no problems and then when I turned it on the first time nothing happened, fans spun light shone but nothing on the monitor and I sat there thinking "well I cant even run memtest64 if i even get to the boot screen" turns out the problem was with the ram, i had forgotten to put any in.*facepalm* also same build put in the ram and it didn't post I got a black screen with 99 in the bottom right corner, turns out the motherboard didn't recognize my wireless keyboard and mouse, so yeah I learnt that wired is better.

[TechFan@ic]

I didn't really make any mistakes the first time I did my build, because I had help .

[Ghost]

I didn't really make any mistakes the first time I did my build, because I had help .

Well that's just cheating!

[Ghost]

Oh yes another mistake of mine with my first first build. (Before tech videos were really out there.)

Was to buy a cheap power supply.

[SemiSolid1]

building a pc drunk just a bad idea

[codytappen]

As always mounting the cooler upside down...

[Tr3vor]

I've never had these issues when I put together my first build, but I've had enough experience messing with old computers like P4s and pentiums to know what I need to do :P

[Kev]

I always used to put the side panel on before I knew everything was working. I was pretty OCD about my first build so I didn't make any mistakes on that but when I was upgrading my old computer I put the RAM in wrong.

[Puppet]

Honestly can't recall anything too major going wrong, definitely forgot to flip the switch at the PSU/wall a few times.... other than that usually BIOS settings...PCIe disabled etc

[RedneckRickem]

When changing the heatsink on my first build to an AC Freezer Pro, I took the 939 chip out to clean it and bent most the pins the way i was holding it in my hand, dam tough 3200+, after a time consuming straightening, still works to this day.