I had a computer that would keep randomly shutting off on me, and I had tried everything. Everything. One day i got really fucking tired of it and I gave it a nice tap on the side of the case with a hammer. It turned back on. And it never happened again. To this day i still have no how or why.
Worst part of PC troubleshooting is when you fix it by doing nothing, and then have to live in perpetual fear of it breaking again knowing full well you'll be starting from scratch trying to figure it out again.
when I tried putting an extra 8gb stick of ram into my laptop, some of the keys on my keyboard stopped working for no reason, so I went to take it apart and found nothing wrong, put it back together and now it's working again for god knows what reason
To clarify for anyone who doesn't know, first boot you leave the panels off so that if it doesn't make it past post you can check what's wrong without having to take the case apart again
Actually the right thing to do is build it outside of the case before you mount the motherboard on the mb tray. That way if there is a hardware failure it’s a lot easier to troubleshoot when it’s out of the case.
You make 3 versions that should all work: the program doesn't work You make the one that you're sure it can't work, the calculations are off, the functions aren't there: it works, somehow
@@Czecherboard Back then I was trying to learn Python I tryed making a bot for a game (for D2 that would work with pluggy mod). So I managed to make a bot that can open up a game and then I tryed to implement the part where bot chooses a character it broke... I did dumb mistake of inserting alot of code witought testing it. Tryed fixing it in couple of ways. Still nothink. Then I got mad and went to the balcony for a cig. Then I came back because I was brainstorming what might be wrong I just ran the code to see what was wrong and it just worked. I didin't changed anything. I live alone. Code just worked. Still freaks me out!
probably should not even boot with the motherboard in the computer case lol. I once put an ATX dual CPU server board in a PC case and the computer just never boot. I spent days trying to figure out why and decided to take everything out and see. Once I take the motherboard out, I'm able to boot. Turns out the ATX server board is a bit larger than regular ATX and some pins are touching the back panel on the case causing the board to short out lol
Dont forget you have to torque the GPU to 180ftlbs. A lot of people think you can get a way with 150 but you're leaving power on the table if you do that.
When I helped my friend build a PC and it didn’t boot, I had him take out a RAM stick and try it. He didn’t think it would make a difference. Booted right up. We configured the BIOS, shut it down, put the other RAM stick back in, and it booted right up.
Building systems for over 20 years now but this one will never be old 😅 Happened so many times even to me and when it hits.. well u know the feelings ❤😊
Its a fun Video. The message behind is that you shouldnt completly do cablemanagement etc and finish everything before checking that the system rly does Boot
@@DanKamYouKnow If I have a $500 limit on building a pc, is it hopeless? Or is there something you could recommend?.. I'm mainly into gaming with older games like Minecraft, Roblox, COD, and a few others, I don't think they need top of the line graphics and stuff to run smoothly.. right?..
My biggest mistake was buying the wrong cooler mount for my lga 1700 board. Proper solution-- buy the right stuff. My lazy solution--- take some long screws and some nuts and screw it directly through the holes in the board. No mount required. Runs great. My water block makes sure my pc is always at like 30c
My lazy solution would have been along the lines of "take a pair of calipers, measure what's off, and make the guys at work fabricate an adapter for me out of our scrap."
As IT Technician i can confirm this is true. You can't even imagine what did i went thru. 10 people could assure me the PC is not working and when i came there to check, took of side panel to see the post error and pressed the power button it just booted no problem. IT has nothing to do with common sense. The other very memorable situation i had was where we had server that didn't work in one laboratory but it worked flawlessly in other one where they had necessary equipment to fix it. It took us 3 back and forth trips to realize the only possible thing that could happen to this sever it trip from building to building. The shaking form driving in on the brick pathway must of disconnect something or idk and somehow it happend 3 times that when we drove it to fix it shaked itself correctly and back it was breaking again XD
No matter if panels are on or off. If you wanna Check the PC before Hand do it without a case. Use the mobo Box as a electrically safe surface and have cpu, cooler etc put on. Bonus Part, mostly you can leave the cooler on anyways before mouting the mobo in the case.
For me, it's a cable management thing. My case is an Inwin 301 with very little space between the back panel and chassis, and tightening the panel is enough to undo my cables.
Honestly biggest reason why I do it is because sometimes a cable is partially in a fan and it makes a very annoying noise and is prob not best for the fan. With panels off you can quickly locate the issue and fix it.
Whenever I tinker with my build I check clearance of all fans and I also have to check my sata hdd plug in because it likes to come out everytime I mess with the back panel because the cage doesnt leave enough space for the drive to have more clearance for the port
Atreus: Father, i am ready for the first boot. Kratos: Boi, you are not ready for the first boot! Your panels are on and you lack the discipline for cable management!
My current PC had a nifty trick, at first anytime the panels where on it wouldn't boot, then you take the panels off and it would boot fine, rinse and repeat, turns out one of the panels crimped the power button wire so it wasn't shorting the MOBO pins
Tbh i had a pc that would boot only with panels off no matter how much i looked for the issue it could've had. Teared it to pieces, did all kind of tests and reassembled it a dozen of times. I've played CS with it opened like that for few years.
From what I've learned from various guides, its more extreme than that. You try first boot with the motherboard outside the case, starting the pc by shorting the power button with a screwdriver
One of the many reasons why PC Building is so fantastic to me. My own PC sometimes was a pure nightmare, sometimes windows didnt work on my SSD, then something else didnt work and at the last attempt.. Out of all sudden, everything went as planned I lovely named my PC „Little Nightmare“ cuz it was sometimes was a pure nightmare to troubleshoot what’s wrong but it was fun aswell, if im quite honest on that
If anyone boot up the custom build pc in one go, You are the G.O.A.T of Tech support. Thats your dream job, Don't even let Bios and gpu stop you from doing what you love!! ❤
In fact, by not installing the panels, I saved myself from disassembling the entire PC because the cabinet lights were useless, so removing them was no problem. XD
This could actually happen. A lot of times it takes a couple seconds for the pc to respond to the power button. If you pressed it too fast after flipping the switch it might not turn on.
I did IT for 10 years. I have seen shenanigans like this work for no logical reason. My boss made a printer work by cussing at it, and it never broke again. I've worked for 2 hours troubleshooting a PC that worked fine if I turned it 15 degrees left. So much of what I did was so close to voodoo, that when my boss suggested we scarified a chicken, I still believe he kept one on hand just in case.
When I moved my PC into a new case last year, it didn’t boot up and scared the shit outta me. I found out that the power button was faulty and ended up connecting the mobo power pins to the reset button
At this point im not booting until i get into windows, or atleast the install in started, put the panel back on my server after swapping in an ssd and forgot to convert it to MBR instead of GPT format, so i had to tske the panel off, get my spare pc from the closet (that i just put back) hook it up, put in the drive, format it and then try to install windows on the server It was pain
Honestly the thing that scares me most about building a pc is not the hardware, I'm studying mechanical engineering so not that big of an issue, but the software side scares the living shit out of me. Doing stuff to the BIOS or other critical software even to my current pc is anxiety inducing.
I always build the system on the motherboard box for this very reason, then slowly move it to the case to make nothing is shorting out the board. Cable extensions and the pin connectors always seem to be a culprit.
This actually was a thing for one of my pc builds from the 90’s. Insides their was a dead switch that when you put the lid back on it would press. Allowing the pc to turn on. However if the current was reversed. Say by swapping the locations of 2 wires…. Yea that was a fun time
If he built that thing by himself without anyone else's help then I have to know how he got the CPU cooler on because it takes like 3 to 4 hands just to hold that thing in place so you can screw it in.
And you never ever screw the hard disk or bulky ssd in before testing it floating around. You most certainly drop a screw on the motherboard when you have to take it out when you don't get a post on your screen due a faulty cable.
siempre hay que comprobar que todo arranca y que todos los modulos que instalaste como wifi bluetooth u otros funcionen. me a pasado varias veces que algo no arranca ya sea porque no esta bien conectado o algo asi
On a full custom build I connect the most critical parts (mobo, cpu & cooler, memory, storage, gpu, & psu) without the case. Then check for any DOA or basic memory / stability issues and return / replace parts much more easily. Then I move onto loading everything into the case.
I currently have a PC that will only run with panels off. I and the local repair shop are at a total loss for the reason at this point and chalk it up to this.
Not even kidding, have had this happen. IIRC, the Rat's Nest I shoved behind the mainboard got stuck in the panel's tabs, and shorted to ground. Strip of electrical tape later, and it's g2g.
Another good thing to do is to test everything on top of a good surface heck even the motherboard box if you have one. Before even putting anything in the computer case. And see if it works.
You should be testing the boot to BIOS outside of the case with just the base minimum hooked up to get it to stary. Little ol screwdriver to jump the power button. Makes your life a lot easier to if you need to rma a motherboard when its not fully built into a case.
It’s kinda crazy because my panel was causing my pc to fail boot, I took it off and it booted right back up, I sat there in such confusion scratching my head because when I simply put the panel back on it didn’t boot.. come to find out the old USB hub that was installed kept making contact with the panel causing it not to boot, gotta make sure no prongs/wires touch the panel beforehand
Gotta be honest, I've always put the panels back on after I'm done and been fine. Every time I've left them off in case it doesn't boot, it never boots. The second I'm like "screw it, should be fine" it works immediately
Can confirm as a hobby PC builder of almost 10 years...One thing I just experienced recently helping a friend build a new rig is that his PC (brand new top of the line platform) wouldn't show a post screen without a proper keyboard plugged in. Bro started getting flustered and I was like "its alright bro, its probably something stupid simple like the keyboard not being plugged in". Long story short after I scrounged up a wired keyboard to test with it POSTed fine and we got Windows installed. I'm surprised there are still motherboards that get finicky over keyboards not being connected...I'm looking at you Gigabyte.
Panels off before first boot is the first rule of Fight Clu…. I mean PC building.
yoo wsg gngy!
Bro, what are you doing with that big ole ratchet at the beginning?!?
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@@DanKamYouKnow bros replying to his reply
I hope to make a pc, I'm using a gaming laptop for now tho 💀
pc building and troubleshooting can make you feel like a wizard sometimes
Honestly, this is facts.
I had a computer that would keep randomly shutting off on me, and I had tried everything. Everything. One day i got really fucking tired of it and I gave it a nice tap on the side of the case with a hammer. It turned back on. And it never happened again. To this day i still have no how or why.
I cast "Putting the cpu on"!!!!
@@Garvey64LIVE64 maybe some part of the case was shorting the mb?
Installation "Wizard"
Bro is building a PC with a torque wrench 😂😂 💀
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So THAT'S what what tool is! Bro is putting the "Duty" in "Heavy Duty".
thats a 1/2 snap on ratchet, i have the same one.
Gotta make sure its torqued to specs
I usually torque my side panel screws to 240 foot-pounds
Worst part of PC troubleshooting is when you fix it by doing nothing, and then have to live in perpetual fear of it breaking again knowing full well you'll be starting from scratch trying to figure it out again.
when i had just 8gb ram on my pc, one of the memories just stopped working and just came alive out of nothing after SIX months
God is a Genius
when I tried putting an extra 8gb stick of ram into my laptop, some of the keys on my keyboard stopped working for no reason, so I went to take it apart and found nothing wrong, put it back together and now it's working again for god knows what reason
It's always fine though, right? I've had 3 PCs not do something, then they did something after I reset only the PSU switch off then on again.
@@pogtuber5146Yeah, that happened to a friend of mine. His water heater blew up 3 weeks later. Stay safe.
That “hOw tHa fU-“ at the end was perspnal💀💀💀
To clarify for anyone who doesn't know, first boot you leave the panels off so that if it doesn't make it past post you can check what's wrong without having to take the case apart again
I figured but i didnt think i understood because IT WORKED THE SECOND TIME.
ah I see
Actually the right thing to do is build it outside of the case before you mount the motherboard on the mb tray. That way if there is a hardware failure it’s a lot easier to troubleshoot when it’s out of the case.
Also if a GPU cable gets stuck in a fan or smth you can easily remove it
@@charliesretrocomputing You're running the jungle cable management I see. Lol
Just like programming. Sometimes you can't understand why the code doesn't work and sometimes you can't understand why it works
Completely right
You make 3 versions that should all work: the program doesn't work
You make the one that you're sure it can't work, the calculations are off, the functions aren't there: it works, somehow
@@Czecherboard Back then I was trying to learn Python I tryed making a bot for a game (for D2 that would work with pluggy mod). So I managed to make a bot that can open up a game and then I tryed to implement the part where bot chooses a character it broke... I did dumb mistake of inserting alot of code witought testing it.
Tryed fixing it in couple of ways. Still nothink. Then I got mad and went to the balcony for a cig. Then I came back because I was brainstorming what might be wrong I just ran the code to see what was wrong and it just worked. I didin't changed anything. I live alone. Code just worked. Still freaks me out!
Aha a fellow programmer may I ask what languages you specialize in?
@@JadTheOne Can't say that I'm a programmer or that I specialise in any language. But for my work I use c++ and ROOT
Man i love that you‘re not using annoying background music or any kind of annoying sound, just delivering good contenct and deserving likes!
the content is annoying enough without the music. cant block it enough and keeps coming back
@@ultra1obsceneCommenting on this channel, youtube will keep showing you more of this channel.
I love that you're always cranking some random ahh component. Half expecting a cable extension at this point lmaoo
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Don't let ZTT see this 😂
I’m the 1000th (exactly) person to like
@@GX_Ethernal is that zinus tech tips
@@timecubed😂 nah it's Zach tech turf. He just does pc building and always puts cable extensions and even says aesthetics over performance
I don't know why, but whenever one of this guy's videos pops up, it feels cathartic and I watch it all the way.
Appreciate the support!
@@DanKamYouKnow I love your videos too mate. they are well good.
I was expecting an explosion
"So what's your philosophy on airflow?"
"YES!"
For best results, you gotta do first boot on the motherboard box.
Bros making building a pc look like engine work
Edit: Let’s get more then the pinned commentS
Gotta tighten the PSU cables 😂🤣😭
😂 I always laugh when I see a ratchet in your videos
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somebody tell him that is not the waterpump for a lb7 (40 ft lbs)
It's not that different, it's just electricity and programs instead of combustion and physics
That f bomb got me 😂😂
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I Said the Same Thing LOL
Bro was tightening that pc like it was a Harley 😂
Honestly i think that was the joke😂
probably should not even boot with the motherboard in the computer case lol. I once put an ATX dual CPU server board in a PC case and the computer just never boot. I spent days trying to figure out why and decided to take everything out and see. Once I take the motherboard out, I'm able to boot. Turns out the ATX server board is a bit larger than regular ATX and some pins are touching the back panel on the case causing the board to short out lol
Casually builds a pc with an ABSURDLY large torque wrench
Thank you for the play by play. I didn't manage to see it with my own eyes
It's a very reasonably size torque wrench, I have one that size... for working on CARS!
Check out a 3/4” drive 600 ft/lb torque wrench. Now THAT’S large
There is always an "age-old rule" for anything. Don't stick to the rule, and Something WILL go wrong. 😂🤫
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Dont forget you have to torque the GPU to 180ftlbs. A lot of people think you can get a way with 150 but you're leaving power on the table if you do that.
When I helped my friend build a PC and it didn’t boot, I had him take out a RAM stick and try it. He didn’t think it would make a difference. Booted right up. We configured the BIOS, shut it down, put the other RAM stick back in, and it booted right up.
Building systems for over 20 years now but this one will never be old 😅
Happened so many times even to me and when it hits.. well u know the feelings ❤😊
Facts! 🤝
Wait why? I don't understand. This didn't happen to me and I don't see how it would.
Its a fun Video. The message behind is that you shouldnt completly do cablemanagement etc and finish everything before checking that the system rly does Boot
I dont even have panels, im too broke😂😂
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How do you buy a case without panels💀?
At least y got a pc 💀
@@tftakashi7 he didnt he made the case💀
I'm a technician and no joke, every time I pack up my tools before I test the systems, something always goes wrong
Torque wrench had me at first 😂
I love ur vids you're the reason I'm into pcs
LETS GOOO!! 🗿🤝🗿
@@DanKamYouKnow If I have a $500 limit on building a pc, is it hopeless? Or is there something you could recommend?.. I'm mainly into gaming with older games like Minecraft, Roblox, COD, and a few others, I don't think they need top of the line graphics and stuff to run smoothly.. right?..
@@TheShadowReaper525nah you could literally get a 100 Dollar GPU and it would get like 200 fps on 1080p in a game like fortnite
Maybe not 200 idk maybe 140
@@robertbozic467 where would I find the parts to make one?.. I don't even have a case rn
My biggest mistake was buying the wrong cooler mount for my lga 1700 board.
Proper solution-- buy the right stuff.
My lazy solution--- take some long screws and some nuts and screw it directly through the holes in the board. No mount required.
Runs great. My water block makes sure my pc is always at like 30c
My lazy solution would have been along the lines of "take a pair of calipers, measure what's off, and make the guys at work fabricate an adapter for me out of our scrap."
lol
ya that sounds like to much work for me.@@kugelblitz1557
if it works, it works. you could even use wood screws and a few blocks of wood.
@@EddieJarnowski im sayin
As IT Technician i can confirm this is true. You can't even imagine what did i went thru. 10 people could assure me the PC is not working and when i came there to check, took of side panel to see the post error and pressed the power button it just booted no problem. IT has nothing to do with common sense.
The other very memorable situation i had was where we had server that didn't work in one laboratory but it worked flawlessly in other one where they had necessary equipment to fix it. It took us 3 back and forth trips to realize the only possible thing that could happen to this sever it trip from building to building. The shaking form driving in on the brick pathway must of disconnect something or idk and somehow it happend 3 times that when we drove it to fix it shaked itself correctly and back it was breaking again XD
So true. I was servicing my pc and with all panels installed it said that I didn’t have a boot drive removed the panels everything worked fine
Bro your videos are amazing! Keep it up
Thank you!!!!
Bro is the Micheal Jordan of pc building
🤣🤣🤣😂
We're done with the 90s!!! lmao
No matter if panels are on or off. If you wanna Check the PC before Hand do it without a case.
Use the mobo Box as a electrically safe surface and have cpu, cooler etc put on. Bonus Part, mostly you can leave the cooler on anyways before mouting the mobo in the case.
Bro I just got my first ever PC 2 days ago and I already love this community. PC MASTER RACE ✊🏻
I always bench test my builds before ever putting it in the case. Just much easier that way in case something goes wrong to troubleshoot.
I was going to say just this!
Maybe stop buying PC parts from temu so you don't have to build your PC twice? 😂
@@keigansabo9330 that has nothing to do with it. You can get a bad part from anywhere and from any brand.
Bro you are awsome thanks for giving these op tips ❤
This one is just a joke but you’re welcome!
Man those lights turning on gave me a whole new life 😮
For me, it's a cable management thing. My case is an Inwin 301 with very little space between the back panel and chassis, and tightening the panel is enough to undo my cables.
every time i watch your vids they make my day
Thanks for this nice comment! Appreciate it!
Honestly biggest reason why I do it is because sometimes a cable is partially in a fan and it makes a very annoying noise and is prob not best for the fan. With panels off you can quickly locate the issue and fix it.
Whenever I tinker with my build I check clearance of all fans and I also have to check my sata hdd plug in because it likes to come out everytime I mess with the back panel because the cage doesnt leave enough space for the drive to have more clearance for the port
Atreus: Father, i am ready for the first boot.
Kratos: Boi, you are not ready for the first boot! Your panels are on and you lack the discipline for cable management!
You know you built a good pc when you need to use a comically large torque wrench to tighten it
Bro love your vids my guy
Appreciate the support!!!!
That build looks sick! What are the specs?
My current PC had a nifty trick, at first anytime the panels where on it wouldn't boot, then you take the panels off and it would boot fine, rinse and repeat, turns out one of the panels crimped the power button wire so it wasn't shorting the MOBO pins
Putting all the panels on before first boot is the definition of faith :)
Bro forgot that you need to connect the hdmi cable to motherboard instead of the gpu
Ain't no one falling for that😂
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@@Fishion.built my pc like a month ago and I just did this 🤣 no one mentioned it in the extensive research I did
"How the fu-" got me dying😅😂😂
Tbh i had a pc that would boot only with panels off no matter how much i looked for the issue it could've had. Teared it to pieces, did all kind of tests and reassembled it a dozen of times. I've played CS with it opened like that for few years.
From what I've learned from various guides, its more extreme than that. You try first boot with the motherboard outside the case, starting the pc by shorting the power button with a screwdriver
One of the many reasons why PC Building is so fantastic to me.
My own PC sometimes was a pure nightmare, sometimes windows didnt work on my SSD, then something else didnt work and at the last attempt.. Out of all sudden, everything went as planned
I lovely named my PC „Little Nightmare“ cuz it was sometimes was a pure nightmare to troubleshoot what’s wrong but it was fun aswell, if im quite honest on that
Not pointing the panels on is so, if (when) you mess something up, you don’t have to remove them to fix it.
Remember to change your power button fluid after the first boot, thats a golden rule
Make sure to torque the panels nuts to spec
If anyone boot up the custom build pc in one go, You are the G.O.A.T of Tech support. Thats your dream job, Don't even let Bios and gpu stop you from doing what you love!! ❤
In fact, by not installing the panels, I saved myself from disassembling the entire PC because the cabinet lights were useless, so removing them was no problem. XD
This could actually happen. A lot of times it takes a couple seconds for the pc to respond to the power button. If you pressed it too fast after flipping the switch it might not turn on.
I did IT for 10 years. I have seen shenanigans like this work for no logical reason. My boss made a printer work by cussing at it, and it never broke again. I've worked for 2 hours troubleshooting a PC that worked fine if I turned it 15 degrees left. So much of what I did was so close to voodoo, that when my boss suggested we scarified a chicken, I still believe he kept one on hand just in case.
When I moved my PC into a new case last year, it didn’t boot up and scared the shit outta me. I found out that the power button was faulty and ended up connecting the mobo power pins to the reset button
At this point im not booting until i get into windows, or atleast the install in started, put the panel back on my server after swapping in an ssd and forgot to convert it to MBR instead of GPT format, so i had to tske the panel off, get my spare pc from the closet (that i just put back) hook it up, put in the drive, format it and then try to install windows on the server
It was pain
Honestly the thing that scares me most about building a pc is not the hardware, I'm studying mechanical engineering so not that big of an issue, but the software side scares the living shit out of me. Doing stuff to the BIOS or other critical software even to my current pc is anxiety inducing.
I love the progressively bigger tools being used on the pc
Same concept for hvac. You don't put any panels on until everything works
I always found building a OS from somewhat scratch was a lot harder then putting pc parts together
I love the dramatization with the torque wrench 😂😂😂
I actually had my PC post on the first try, even after forgetting not to put my panels on lol felt so good.
Building my first PC made me feel like an engineer.
My dad (engineer): 👍🏻
I always build the system on the motherboard box for this very reason, then slowly move it to the case to make nothing is shorting out the board. Cable extensions and the pin connectors always seem to be a culprit.
Absolutely love these videos even though they are CZcams shorts I would love a longer video❤❤❤❤
This actually was a thing for one of my pc builds from the 90’s. Insides their was a dead switch that when you put the lid back on it would press. Allowing the pc to turn on. However if the current was reversed. Say by swapping the locations of 2 wires…. Yea that was a fun time
When building PC's for a small store in the 90s, we called it a "case virus"
Looking at that graphics card is making me tear up… rip evga😭😭
I built my 1st pc flawlessly.... Except the psu power switch. That thing had me thinking I failed 😂
i love how in every pc building video the first shot is just him wrenching or screwing random stuff
If he built that thing by himself without anyone else's help then I have to know how he got the CPU cooler on because it takes like 3 to 4 hands just to hold that thing in place so you can screw it in.
I’ve never seen a more accurate experience in my life
And you never ever screw the hard disk or bulky ssd in before testing it floating around. You most certainly drop a screw on the motherboard when you have to take it out when you don't get a post on your screen due a faulty cable.
I always do first boot on the top of the motherboard box or a test bench. Only then do I start putting everything together in the case.
When the pc dosn't work but then the next day it fully works
siempre hay que comprobar que todo arranca y que todos los modulos que instalaste como wifi bluetooth u otros funcionen. me a pasado varias veces que algo no arranca ya sea porque no esta bien conectado o algo asi
Thanks for putting that out there, one less mistake I’ll make when building my gaming pc in the future!😂 “panels off when booting”
First rule is to breadboard the build and check all the parts work
THIS IS THE ONE IVE BEEN WAITNG FOR!!!!!
great content man!
On a full custom build I connect the most critical parts (mobo, cpu & cooler, memory, storage, gpu, & psu) without the case. Then check for any DOA or basic memory / stability issues and return / replace parts much more easily. Then I move onto loading everything into the case.
Always make sure the pc is working before you finish assembly, or youll have to spend the time disassembling again.
man you are the chillest guy i ever seen
I've seen alot of your videos and enjoyed them. But this one takes the cake.
You earned a sub.
I currently have a PC that will only run with panels off. I and the local repair shop are at a total loss for the reason at this point and chalk it up to this.
I always put the side panels on before I even finish cable management because I am a fucking god and will never die.
Not even kidding, have had this happen.
IIRC, the Rat's Nest I shoved behind the mainboard got stuck in the panel's tabs, and shorted to ground. Strip of electrical tape later, and it's g2g.
Age old rule is build the PC outside of the case on a non-static surface and check for defective parts.
Another good thing to do is to test everything on top of a good surface heck even the motherboard box if you have one. Before even putting anything in the computer case. And see if it works.
You should be testing the boot to BIOS outside of the case with just the base minimum hooked up to get it to stary. Little ol screwdriver to jump the power button. Makes your life a lot easier to if you need to rma a motherboard when its not fully built into a case.
The rule is to build the pc first on top of the motherboard box, then once post you can install it in the case
I build multiple pc's and always installed it completely before booting into bios. Never had 1 problem.
THE WAY HE SAID "HOW THE FU-." GOT ME LAUGHING
It’s kinda crazy because my panel was causing my pc to fail boot, I took it off and it booted right back up, I sat there in such confusion scratching my head because when I simply put the panel back on it didn’t boot.. come to find out the old USB hub that was installed kept making contact with the panel causing it not to boot, gotta make sure no prongs/wires touch the panel beforehand
as a mechanic I approve your PC building technique at the start
Gotta be honest, I've always put the panels back on after I'm done and been fine. Every time I've left them off in case it doesn't boot, it never boots. The second I'm like "screw it, should be fine" it works immediately
I always confirm booting before putting everything in the case
Can confirm as a hobby PC builder of almost 10 years...One thing I just experienced recently helping a friend build a new rig is that his PC (brand new top of the line platform) wouldn't show a post screen without a proper keyboard plugged in. Bro started getting flustered and I was like "its alright bro, its probably something stupid simple like the keyboard not being plugged in". Long story short after I scrounged up a wired keyboard to test with it POSTed fine and we got Windows installed. I'm surprised there are still motherboards that get finicky over keyboards not being connected...I'm looking at you Gigabyte.
Never left um off, never had a failed boot. Been building a long time, the biggest mistake is people not seating cables or the ram properly.