PC assembly risk not working?

[TheMidnightNarwhal]

So my dad wants to know the risk that a PC will not work after assembly... yeah. Lol.

[Shd0w2]

1.If you don't ground yourself, your pretty much most likely screwed.

2. Break the pins of anything especially your CPU and its over man.

3.Surprisingly easy honestly, JUST DONT FORGET TO PUT THEM HARD DRIVES IN THE CAGE AND SCREW EM IN.

[antoainb]

So my dad wants to know the risk that a PC will not work after assembly... yeah. Lol.

 

If you WC it could leak, you could zap a component if you don't protect yourself against static, the hardware could be DOA, some conectors might not be well plugged in and it can explode if you put TNT in it and activate it.

[DarrenP]

1.If you don't ground yourself, your pretty much most likely screwed.

2. Break the pins of anything especially your CPU and its over man.

3.Surprisingly easy honestly, JUST DONT FORGET TO PUT THEM HARD DRIVES IN THE CAGE AND SCREW EM IN.

I've never wore an anti-static wrist strap before and built 10+ systems. 

[TheMidnightNarwhal]

I've never wore an anti-static wrist strap before and built 10+ systems. 

 

He did said to ground youserlf, not using a wrist strap....

[Shd0w2]

I've never wore an anti-static wrist strap before and built 10+ systems. 

I never said you need one, you just should  ground yourself by touching your case or stuff.

[soup]

1.If you don't ground yourself, your pretty much most likely screwed.

2. Break the pins of anything especially your CPU and its over man.

3.Surprisingly easy honestly, JUST DONT FORGET TO PUT THEM HARD DRIVES IN THE CAGE AND SCREW EM IN.

1.Nope.People get too precious about ESD, in a humid climate not being stupid is usually enough

2. Probably

3. Depends (have an SSD in this system held in with blue tac [until yesterday it was just hanging loose])

First PC I had used  a 386 4Meg (yes meg) of ram and a 40 meg hard drive jammed in place in with newspaper rather than screws .

[Shd0w2]

1.Nope.People get too precious about ESD, in a humid climate not being stupid is usually enough

2. Probably

3. Depends (have an SSD in this system held in with blue tac [until yesterday it was just hanging loose])

First PC I had used  a 386 4Meg (yes meg) of ram and a 40 meg hard drive jammed in place in with newspaper rather than screws .

I only said hard drives, obviously SSD's don't really need it >.>

Back to 1,  I don't even >.>

[spwath]

1.If you don't ground yourself, your pretty much most likely screwed.

2. Break the pins of anything especially your CPU and its over man.

3.Surprisingly easy honestly, JUST DONT FORGET TO PUT THEM HARD DRIVES IN THE CAGE AND SCREW EM IN.

Disagree. I didn't use anti static anything.

[soup]

I only said hard drives, obviously SSD's don't really need it >.>

 

Second part of that statement.

[One Who Craves Souls]

Disagree. I didn't use anti static anything.

 

 

I never said you need one, you just should  ground yourself by touching your case or stuff.

[spwath]

 

oh. well yeha iu did that.

[loepa]

1.If you don't ground yourself, your pretty much most likely screwed.

2. Break the pins of anything especially your CPU and its over man.

3.Surprisingly easy honestly, JUST DONT FORGET TO PUT THEM HARD DRIVES IN THE CAGE AND SCREW EM IN.

 

1. The chance of happening is pretty low except in some climate condition. But better be safe than sorry.

2. Breaking pins is very dangerous. Sometimes Bending the pin back can fix it, other times it don't.

3. isn't this step is pretty much included in assembling a pc.

[M-ursu]

1.If you don't ground yourself, your pretty much most likely screwed.

 

I have build like 20 computers and i have never grounded myself. (always worked)

For me grounding is just a historical joke

[Altecice]

Today's hardware is surprisingly bulletproof. they can take a fair bit of punishment before breaking.

I have also been building systems for years and have never used an Anti-Static wrist bracelet, there is just no need you are likely resting your arms on the metal edge of the case anyway.

I remember people telling you not to blow dust off the pc in case the moisture in your breath breaks the hardware.... this is just utter rubbish most of today's hardware are tested up to 90% humidity and still work fine.

 

But if you do something silly like people are saying above then yes of course it will break. 

[TheMidnightNarwhal]

How about DOA parts? 

[One Who Craves Souls]

oh. well yeha iu did that.

 

I have build like 20 computers and i have never grounded myself. (always worked)

For me grounding is just a historical joke

However this thread is about risks, the chances of your experiences going well by you "not grounding"(I'll explain) yourself does not mean that risks of ESD don't exists.

 

ESD happens, how much? maybe you've build 10, 30 or 100 PCs and it didn't happen to you, but ESD happens.

 

"For me grounding is just a historical joke"

 

You wanna know a "historical joke"? That you do ground yourself at some point when you're building a PC, whenever it was on purpose or without thinking about it. Unless you use a method in which include not touching anything while you're building.

 

Some people forget how easy is to actually ground yourself, it's not a whole hard process... and it takes 1 second.

 

Stop filling the head of the OP with BS you guys do and just recommend him the safe ways, it doesn't hurt to go safety. Or does it?

How about DOA parts?

It's not that common.

[TheMidnightNarwhal]

 

However this thread is about risks, the chances of your experiences going well by you "not grounding"(I'll explain) yourself does not mean that risks of ESD don't exists.

 

ESD happens, how much? maybe you've build 10, 30 or 100 PCs and it didn't happen to you, but ESD happens.

 

"For me grounding is just a historical joke"

 

You wanna know a "historical joke"? That you do ground yourself at some point when you're building a PC, whenever it was on purpose or without thinking about it. Unless you use a method in which include not touching anything while you're building.

 

Some people forget how easy is to actually ground yourself, it's not a whole hard process... and it takes 1 second.

 

Stop filling the head of the OP with BS you guys do and just recommend him the safe ways, it doesn't hurt to go safety. Or does it?

It's not that common.

 

 

Don't worry, I'm all good with ESD. I know how to ground myself and I live in Canada, Quebec, so ESD is not that bad.

 

 

Really my main worries are more with parts being dead by themselves and such. Also, you can use metal screwdriver right? Also, I'm gonna build in a 250d, is it bad/dangerous if the cables from PSU touches the board or nothing must touch.

[One Who Craves Souls]

Don't worry, I'm all good with ESD. I know how to ground myself and I live in Canada, Quebec, so ESD is not that bad.

 

 

Really my main worries are more with parts being dead by themselves and such. Also, you can use metal screwdriver right? Also, I'm gonna build in a 250d, is it bad/dangerous if the cables from PSU touches the board or nothing must touch.

1. Most screwdrivers use rubberized or any other non-conductive material as the hand grip, so yeah it's ok.

2. PSU cables are covered anyways, some with a thin layer others are sleeved, so unless you're stripping them appart leaving bare wires out I don't see a problem.

[Norwegiantweaker]

So my dad wants to know the risk that a PC will not work after assembly... yeah. Lol.

less than 5%. its like lego. 

[TheMidnightNarwhal]

1. Most screwdrivers use rubberized or any other non-conductive material as the hand grip, so yeah it's ok.

2. PSU cables are covered anyways, some with a thin layer others are sleeved, so unless you're stripping them appart leaving bare wires out I don't see a problem.

 

Alright, to give you a quick idea, it's either the seasonic g series or corsair ax PSUs. The ax got sleeved cables, not so sure bout the G series one.

[One Who Craves Souls]

Alright, to give you a quick idea, it's either the seasonic g series or corsair ax PSUs. The ax got sleeved cables, not so sure bout the G series one.

It basically doesn't matter sleeved or not, they're all covered, I wouldn't worry about that.

 

The only thing that scare me the most when building is putting the CPU into it's socket, and even that is easy. lol

[hawthorne]

Be careful of pins on cpus etc. Just be careful and watch as many tutorials you can before going into the assembly, know everything you possible can. 

[TheMidnightNarwhal]

It basically doesn't matter sleeved or not, they're all covered, I wouldn't worry about that.

 

The only thing that scare me the most when building is putting the CPU into it's socket, and even that is easy. lol

 

Yeah me to, but when I look vids it seems so easy. Simply align the gold triasngle, drop it while having it startigh and tug it lightly to see if it moves, then put the cover. But I'm scared something bad happens ha ha. We will see soon, either today or tomo I'm building.

[One Who Craves Souls]

Yeah me to, but when I look vids it seems so easy. Simply align the gold triasngle, drop it while having it startigh and tug it lightly to see if it moves, then put the cover. But I'm scared something bad happens ha ha. We will see soon, either today or tomo I'm building.

Hopefully you'll enjoy it!