Building a computer...

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2005-04-28 12:30pm

Well, its finnaly done, the pictures start halfway. If you see anything wrong, its not too late to tell me.

their all here

We start off here:

Shitty closeup of the SLI setup

The HSF connected

The 6800GT goes in... badly.

The finshed PC

Closeup of the wires...

The exterior view

Comments on how stupid I am for documenting this?

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2005-04-28 01:08pm

A Jedi building his lightsaber. There's nothing stupid about this. Nice choice of hardware, but the wiring harness looks a wee bit gnarly.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2005-04-28 01:16pm

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:A Jedi building his lightsaber. There's nothing stupid about this. Nice choice of hardware, but the wiring harness looks a wee bit gnarly.

It looks, and is kinda messy, but aslong as it works, and i've moved it out of the way of the CPU fan, and both case fans.

Now all thats left is actully booting it, because last time I tried it didn't work, I'm looking at the front panel connectors as likely culprit.

White Haven · Post by **White Haven** » 2005-04-28 01:26pm

A) The wiring's atrocious. I'm sorry, but it is. Get some cable ties and go wild...don't have my camera at work, or I'd send pics of how it should look.

B) Look at your closeup pic again, that shows at least one reason why it wouldn't be working correctly. Flip that selector-plate around, the board's set to 'Dual Video Card' mode, and you're not using SLI.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2005-04-28 01:57pm

You also may want to look up ribbon cable folding. I decided to start folding my ribbon cables off to the side, and ever since, my computers have been running cooler and quieter.

Only thing is that you'll need some double-stick tape.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2005-04-28 02:16pm

White Haven wrote:A) The wiring's atrocious. I'm sorry, but it is. Get some cable ties and go wild...don't have my camera at work, or I'd send pics of how it should look.

B) Look at your closeup pic again, that shows at least one reason why it wouldn't be working correctly. Flip that selector-plate around, the board's set to 'Dual Video Card' mode, and you're not using SLI.

B)

Fixed.

A) I tried clearing it up abit more, moved the mobo power cable to the side, but don't know how to improve more.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2005-04-28 02:34pm

I'm crossposting this also in G&C, please answer there if you read it here...

Okey, everything is plugged in, when the system is plugged into the power outlet, a tiny "Standby light" activates on the motherboard, I press the power button...

Only no power, nothing happens.

I've re-did the front panel connectors, hasn't helped. Everything is connected right.

Any clues?

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2005-04-28 04:05pm

Are there any beep codes when you try to power on? Does the motherboard have some debug LEDs built into it besides the "standby" light?

You mentioned that the graphics card had a hard time going in. You may have not seated it correctly in the socket.

Post by **Zaia** » 2005-04-28 04:07pm

Split the stupid and immature boob-fixation shit.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2005-04-28 04:08pm

Crayz9000 wrote:Are there any beep codes when you try to power on? Does the motherboard have some debug LEDs built into it besides the "standby" light?

You mentioned that the graphics card had a hard time going in. You may have not seated it correctly in the socket.

The graphics card is now properly inside the PCI-E 16X slot, it was just abit harder then I expected it to be.

No, just nothing happens, to see in G&C(can we move this discussion there), I think its the power button.

jcow79 · Post by **jcow79** » 2005-04-28 08:39pm

I've had some motherboards come out of the box with the CMOS jumper set to clear. This might cause it. Are you fans even coming on?

Comosicus · Post by **Comosicus** » 2005-04-29 01:13am

That cooler is begging for a cable (or a finger

) to get inside it.