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your scariest moment when building your first pc

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Worrying if my pc will turn on or not

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i thot i killed my mobo cuz it shocked me when i took it out of the bag.

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I disassembled my gpu from my old pre-built rig to clean it but then i noticed i had lost more than 1 screw... :mellow:

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I got my PC case and PSU (my old one) second hand from a friend. I needed to remove the hard drives in it but one of the bolts had snapped.

My brother helped to push the panel out so I had enough clearance to just remove the hard drive.  :lol:

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I don't know if this counts as a scary moment... I didn't realize you could install the optical drive from the front and while trying to install it knocked it against my mobo. I was so worried it wouldn't work throughout the rest of the build... and it didn't work

Other than that closing the socket cover. It made a horrible grinding noise. I got my more techy friend to take a look and he said it was fine, but I was still worried

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hmm I remembered Opening the cpu socket and hitting the pins(didn't bend though)  Was a bit scared :/

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Sleeved my PSU and when probing to check my work accidentally shorted out my PSU triggering the short circuit protection. it wouldn't turn on again until I unplugged everything and re-plugged it back in.

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I forgot to use the distances you use to elevate the motherboard and I think I messed something up. I built two computers at the same time and did the same mistake on both of them.

I couldn't open certain files and whatnot. Very frustrating.

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Worrying if my pc will turn on or not

 

Nothing like that moment of truth press of the power button.

I mentally cross my fingers for every new build or after any disassembly / reassembly.

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Every time I rebuild I always get a knot in my stomach when Im waiting for the first post. Looking at the black screen waiting for logos and time always seems to slow down for a few moments, It takes just long enough for me to start worrying.

Why do you always die right after I fix you?

 

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Wtf is that noise?

Wtf is that smell...

Wtf did this screw came off?

Why wouldn't this pos run?

What did I do wrong now?

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Attaching the heatsink (Gammaxx S40)... I bent the top fins thanks to AMD's mounting...

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CPU. I had no idea that the pins were not on the CPU any more, the crunching noise it made when placing the lever down oh god Q_Q

 

Edit: It had been a fair while since I had hands on building a PC.. Ugh. Even though my E6600 didn't have pins on the CPU, so I don't know why I was so shocked.

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When I was bringing the retention arm down for my Xeon I was like, "lol wtf why does it require so much force?"

 

Both of my friends with intel cpus had me do that since they were scared shitless when they tried...

 

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First time building my own? Probably mounting the CPU, because of all the crunchy noises. Now I don't have any problems building anything.

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Putting in the 24 pin motherboard connector. Pushed it so hard, felt like the motherboard was going to snap off!

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1. PC doesn't turn on because I didn't turn on the PSU

2. The CPU clamp...urgghhhhh it still trips me up to this day.

 

These.

 

1. Dat panic and sudden relieve when you remember that there's a switch on the PSU itself too

 

2. The cracking noise stressed me out so much.

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When it didn't post :( But it was a REALLY stupid mistake on my part

Part of the Q6600 club

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I collected my parts month by month, finally built my pc after spending a total of about £1200, put it all together, pressed the power button and nothing happened.

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These.

 

1. Dat panic and sudden relieve when you remember that there's a switch on the PSU itself too

 

2. The cracking noise stressed me out so much.

1. I like to scare the shit out of my friends when I boot their PCs for the first time or replace their PSU. :P

2. My friends with intel cpus wanted to do it, so I told them it would require a bit of force, they chickened out so I did it myself.

 

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Secondary (Plex): CPU Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3 @1.099v | RAM Samsun Wonder 16GB CL9 1600 (sadly no oc) | GPU Asus GTX 680 4GB DCII | Motherboard ASRock H97M-Pro4 | HDDs Seagate 1TB, WD Blue 1TB, WD Blue 3TB | Case Corsair Air 240 (Black) | PSU EVGA 600B | Cooling GeminII S524

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The fact that I built the whole thing on carpet aka the home to a world of static electricity.

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