Your first boot

[nicholician]

Mine booted right off the bat, thank god, cause I was so nervous building that thing.

[Guest Johnny5g]

Mine booted on the first time.

me too.

[Hero7750]

First boot I forgot to plug in the cpu power but after that it was fine

[hak4fun]

that sounds... scary

Eh, it was more "Oh shit" then scary. 

[dcb-z]

Mine booted up properly, but then we realized that my case fans weren't turning. Took us a while to figure out what cord we needed, but we got it working.

 

And then as soon as we installed my network drivers, my computer somehow broke the house's internet for about a day.

[spyder]

Mine booted up properly, but then we realized that my case fans weren't turning. Took us a while to figure out what cord we needed, but we got it working.

And then as soon as we installed my network drivers, my computer somehow broke the house's internet for about a day.

I didn't realise my case fans were working till like three weeks into using the machine. It turns out I plugged in the fan headers the wrong way.

[The_Stig]

Mine booted first time. It had an i7-4790K with a EVGA GT 730. Mistakes were made.

[sevs]

Just upgraded my retro rig, and it turns out that i need to flash a new bios to be able to use my two gpus. After trying to use a usb stick to flash it without luck, i decided to install Windows to use the MSI live update garbage (linux user). Booting WinFLP from usb only gave me an NTLDR is missing error, after trying bootsect. I will try again tomorrow and burn a CD.

[flibberdipper]

Mine booted great.

[Swndlr]

My first boot failed.

Had faulty PSU that Newegg send, thx a lot for the broken PSU... @Newegg_Support

[Lethal Seraph]

First boot failed when one of the installed ram was faulty (4x4gb). Newegg replaced it right away.

[zwunder]

powered on but wouldn't post. turns out I had one DOA ram stick and I had all four sticks in the wrong slots.

[spyder]

First boot failed when one of the installed ram was faulty (4x4gb). Newegg replaced it right away.

That sucks indeed but hey least you got it replaced right away.

powered on but wouldn't post. turns out I had one DOA ram stick and I had all four sticks in the wrong slots.

I watched tons of videos including tips from Linus to remember to seat RAM in the same coloured dim slots, they can only go in one way etc etc. Having one DOA stick sounds like a pain in the butt. 

[Statecat]

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.

I also plugged in my fan headers wrong, didn't realise the fans were working till like three weeks into using the PC when I decided to tidy up my cable management, but still she booted just fine

I was a stoop because I forgot to plug in the eight pin CPU power connector. Hahahaha. Thank God for failsafes. I thought my PC had a faulty PSU. I facepalmed, grounded myself, then plugged it in and turned on the PC. Booted fine and I installed Windows 8.1 just fine. ^^

[Bleeding Moot]

can I just say one thing. Power supply switch.

[GigaSnow]

First boot went perfectly.

 

I was surprised that I did everything perfect on the first try, of my first computer.

[zwunder]

That sucks indeed but hey least you got it replaced right away.

I watched tons of videos including tips from Linus to remember to seat RAM in the same coloured dim slots, they can only go in one way etc etc. Having one DOA stick sounds like a pain in the butt. 

I tried seating in the colored slots, but on my MOBO it was actually the other way around.

[Lew0002]

I forgot to flip the switch on the power supply which caused me to die internally

Totally know those feels I did the exact same thing.

[Lew0002]

*YOUR

YOU'RE = YOU ARE

You're first boot = You are first boot

It's not a difficult concept.

Hey maybe they wanted to be the first boot. It takes me a while to boot up in the morning

[Lew0002]

It worked fine the first time I put it together since I already knew what I was doing. I had watched like at least 100 of Linus' videos, took apart a few computers myself, and bought some random parts for 'experimentation'. So now I also know what kills a PC, too. BTW I found out with an old Compaq that booting the PC with the board on the carpet does nothing lol.

Man I've booted bare boards on carpet, wood, concrete hell I even tried it on cardboard and I think unless you are utterly stupid with it, its harder to break a board than people say. Not saying static isn't a factor in failing hardware but I haven't had a problem with it.