• My adventures with the installation of a new Power Supply/Vid Card
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It all started this morning. I woke up and got myself a freshly brewed cup of coffee and checked the newspaper. I looked at the fry's (tech store in my area) page, and saw there was a nice looking power supply on sale. It had everything I needed to support this new video card I had. Great! So I went down to fry's, ecstatic for the thought of my new components. Got the power supply, good good. So I go home and I get the gut feeling it's just not going to work. You see -- This computer wasn't originally meant for gaming, it was a $400 dollar christmas purchase that required a new videocard to run games properly. It was a pretty good build back then -- 3GB ram, 2.3 GHz dualcore processor, etc etc. So once I got home, I ravenously tore open the box to unveil my precious new power supply. I quickly unplugged everything from my computer and slid the case cover off. Only then did I realize how little space was in this shitty industrial computer case. It was probably a mixture of excitement and pure stupidity that lead me to be hasty with this. I carefully unscrewed the 4 screws that held the power supply to the case, and I unclipped and pulled out my old video card. I stuck the new one in, noticing there was only 2-3 cm between it and the hard drive. I unplugged everything that the old video card was plugged into, not taking any notes as to what went where. I then took out the new power supply and put it in place -- again, about 2-3 cm of space between it and the DVD drive. Again, I shrugged it off. I did my best to plug everything in where it should go, 6-pin to video card, 24-pin to mobo, etc etc. I plugged it in and booted up, to see everything was running properly except for the fact that the processor heatsink fan wasn't spinning. I turned it all off and saw a stray 4-pin dangling from the videocard, and I saw a stray 4-pin on my mobo, so I said what the hell and plugged it in. Booted up -- KCHCHHKK! The 4 pin exploded into a small shower of sparks. Once the smoke cleared, I took a look and noticed it was completely burned out. I searched around a bit more and realized the processor fan needed to be plugged into there. I just burned out the pins used to make my processor work. So now my mobo is fried, so i'm stuck with this shitty mac laptop from '04 or '05: [img]http://images.apple.com/r/store/gallery/ibookg4/images/ibookg4_leftside_2004.jpg[/img] Tomorrow we're bringing it to my brother's best friend's father. This should cost me a good $200 to replace and repair. Wish me luck. I would have added pictures of everything, but my camera doesn't have mac-compatible drivers. :downs:
That's a faulty PSU right there. The fan is plugged into the mobo.
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Read the entire thread before posting, shit.
Blame FRY's for FRYING your computer. Get it? :frown:
That 4 pin was supposed to go there. Wait, Did you do this while it was ON? If you plugged in a power connector while the computer was on you deserve to be put in box.
[QUOTE=gerbils_alt_2;18630211]That 4 pin was supposed to go there. Wait, Did you do this while it was ON?[/QUOTE] Read the thread.
Damn, that's gotta suck.
[QUOTE=gerbils_alt_2;18630211]That 4 pin was supposed to go there. Wait, Did you do this while it was ON? If you plugged in a power connector while the computer was on you deserve to be put in box.[/QUOTE] No, it was off.
I'm sorry :(
[QUOTE=AlphaGunman;18630206]Blame FRY's for FRYING your computer. Get it? :frown:[/QUOTE] :biggrin:
What the hell did you do? It shouldn't do that unless you really didn't pay attention and threw it in a random slot. [editline]01:30AM[/editline] Oh and by the sounds of it, you shorted it completely. Pray that it was just the motherboard that got fried. Otherwise prepare to fork over more money for your mistake.
owned hope you learnt your lesson johnny dones
Gee, thanks a lot.
Just buy a new one. I bought a good hp desktop for only 400$. 4 gigs ddr3 ram, 2.9 ghz dual core, ati radeon hd 4350 512 mb
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