Your first boot

[JefferyD90]

It's kinda funny, that I have seen more native speakers (mostly Americans) get it wrong than those who don't speak English natively. Though, non-native speakers have a tendency to apologize a lot for their improper grammar even though they have it all correctly, and a lot of times native speakers don't give a damn about correct grammar.

This would be cool if it wasnt for the fact that most of the time when people make grammer mistakes it is to the point that you dont understand the conversation.

[Serin]

First time boot. Last week in fact. Was quite proud of myself up until I realised that AI suite was turning the pump in the AIO down to fak all. 
Was also pretty damn happy with a 4.6GHz stable clock first attempt given it was my first attempt at overclocking a CPU.

I suppose its not really a complicated thing if you've a little logical thinking ability

[Ruostunut kokis]

This would be cool if it wasnt for the fact that most of the time when people make grammer mistakes it is to the point that you dont understand the conversation.

Most people who I see using incorrect grammar are still perfectly understandable, but some are hard to understand. Those are usually beginners at learning English, or drunkards, but exceptions exist here as well.

 

English is not my native language, I have done most of my mistakes in the earlier years, and as time went on, less and less mistakes were made. This goes for anyone else as well. The more you use the language, the less mistakes you are going to make over time. And at some point, you might not even think about correct grammar anymore.

[Guest]

I spent 30 minutes trying to figure out why mine would boot and then cut out instantly. 

 

Turned out, the thumb screw for the back panel had screwed into one of the holes in a molex connector which was perfectly in-line with the screw thread, which was shorting out the entire system...

 

Laughed so hard when i discovered it. 

[BrianS]

Mine did not boot. Through some troubleshooting I finally, after about a half hour, found on MSI's website that the bios needed a flash. Thankfully that was the only issue albeit a small one.

[Uwillparish]

Never had a DOA, i did however, have to pull my main computer apart to update the bios for my server board

[Dubesta11]

My first boot went good, but I remember when it would randomly turn on because I was using a modular cable from another PSU.

[cd5josh]

When you built your new PC, did it turn on or did you have trouble? Mine refused to turn on leading me to believe I had a DOA component but upon further inspection, the 24 pin mobo cable wasn't seated properly, after that all went good.

 

EDIT: Fixed the title after my epic grammatical error

 

never had any issues, But i went with a z97 gaming 5, with a small led error code display just in case

[Fullmetal1212]

My first Put together Pc?  Booted perfectly the first time. and then over the course of a few months started practicing its boot sequence. All by itself. And i cant figure out why....

 

My second rig built out of left over office computers, my gaming computer before the one above, and my dad's error ridden Ram. Running perfectly no issues. Sometimes It doesn't want to wake up, but I'm gonna chalk that up to the bad ram. doesn't mess up under use so I'm not fixing what isn't broken. Even if i do have the good sticks from that bundle sitting right next to the computer doing nothing.

[LogicalDrm]

I don't remember about the first ever boot. The two last first boots have been for mATX build for friends sister. Everything booted right with screwdriver short. Only problem was Intel stock cooler which was loose and needed remounting. First time I've installed that for custom build.

The second of boots wasn't really first. I had took off my 4770K because of mATX build might have compatibility issues. When I put it back I got black screen and after CMOS reset boot loop. You can read result in Mistakes thread. But shortly I have bent pins and new(used) replacement mobo coming.

[scobie56]

When you built your new PC, did it turn on or did you have trouble? Mine refused to turn on leading me to believe I had a DOA component but upon further inspection, the 24 pin mobo cable wasn't seated properly, after that all went good.

 

EDIT: Fixed the title after my epic grammatical error

im not going to lie but my pc i booted first time but when building a friends who spent 2000 gbp he watched me build it and then i got all smug and told him no turn it on and no bios screen when i looked the cpu power wasn't plugged in i dint even have it plugged in on the psu 

[spyder]

My pc didn't turn on the first time I think, but that was because I left the PSU switch off, both on purpose and because I forgot. Nothing in me started freaking out. Flicked the switch, turned on.

 

Then when I replaced a PSU and a GPU in my friends livingroompc, I left the PSU switch off. A little oops struck me when it didn't boot, but my friend probably almost died inside Flicked the switch, and again, it turned on. Now he can play games with more than 5 FPS

I just immediately starting panicking inside of myself when the machine wasn't posting. 

[LamboLaddy]

Strangely only my first build actually went nice and easy.

This one was a bitch to get going, BIOS updates were required to run any more than one DIMM and GPU.

[STRMfrmXMN]

Well I owned a lot of prebuilt PCs before I built my current one. Mine booted first time although when I got a new PSU the stupid split 24-pin that the EVGA Supernova GS uses was super stiff and didn't connect all the way to the PSU. Plugged it in and all was good.

[Farmall200]

First time I booted it the fans came on and spun, and spun, and spun, and spun some more, and about a minute later and me thinking it wasn't going to post the screen flashes, the fans spin for another 30 secs, then it finally posts. After that its booted in less then 15 seconds flat every time, and I haven't had any issues.

[Mushious]

Didn't power on, 24pin wasn't seated right.

[toxicnos]

When I built my first PC for my self, I was not used to the RAM slots on the ASUS maximus VI Hero as it only has one retention arm to hold it in and when I went to boot it, the side without it was not in so all the fans would spin, everything would light up but no video. I did the build on a school night and decided to work on it a bit before school, I got all the components in but no cable management yet and was able to see if it would post and what i described above happened and then I had to go to school. Needless to say, all I though about at school that day was that I thought that one of my components was dead. Then, I got back from school and noticed it as soon as I started trouble shooting.

[stitchlips]

Mine booted up and then immediately powered down. I spent at least 30 minutes trying to figure out what was wrong with it and thinking that I had a defective part, but it turned out I just hadn't seated my RAM properly. Never face palmed so hard in my life.

[ButthurtTumbleweed]

decided i didn't want a case for it long before building

forgot I didn't have a power button

borrowed from my grandpa's dinosaur pc (he didn't use it anyway)

didn't work

took a break out of desperation trying to figure out what was wrong with it

came back pressed the power button

it turned on

.......

no complaints

[hak4fun]

Mine caught on fire with the first boot.

I made my own cable extensions and I fried a fan, and a DVD drive, and I still have no idea what wire I ended up mixing up. All I know is when I turned it on it, big puff of smoke and I immediately yelled "FUCK" and yanked the cord.

[spyder]

Mine caught on fire with the first boot.

I made my own cable extensions and I fried a fan, and a DVD drive, and I still have no idea what wire I ended up mixing up. All I know is when I turned it on it, big puff of smoke and I immediately yelled "FUCK" and yanked the cord.

If that happened to me, all I'd think about is all that cash siphoning down the drain in a split couple of seconds.

[ButthurtTumbleweed]

Mine caught on fire with the first boot.

I made my own cable extensions and I fried a fan, and a DVD drive, and I still have no idea what wire I ended up mixing up. All I know is when I turned it on it, big puff of smoke and I immediately yelled "FUCK" and yanked the cord.

that sounds... scary

[Octavialicious]

It went really bad, a reallllyy loud beep scared the hell out of me. Turns out my coolers weren't seated properly; on server boards you have to use so much pressure But it's all good now and I got better coolers anyways

[X_Rated_Box]

Yes flawlessly It was kinda dissappointing for me cuz I wanted to learn how to Troubleshoot;(

[Tech_Dreamer]

nope , researched painfully before i decided to short the pin & there it was, the magic moment when i stepped up from a noob to a slight pro..