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.
They are reverse fans - also not full 120mm because of the RGB that has to fit in the frame. Overall, six reverse intake, four regular exhaust with three pushing against a rad, pretty balanced actually, if anything it's a slight positive pressure.
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!
This applies to ANYTHING that you have opened up, taken apart, fixed epaired eplaced, reconnected everything, and don't test it first before putting it completely back together & sealed again... Its one of the few universal truths...
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
Also, the first step to trouble shooting is always to make sure your power supply is on, I’ve spent too much time trying to figure out what was wrong just to have it be the power supply switch
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
Fun fact: The rule is in former reality the opposite: In old PCs, the side panel needed to be closed because it pushed a little switch. If the switch was not pushed (or bypassed with a jumper), it would post into "Error: panel open" message (sorry, don't know the exact message from before year 2k error).
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."
@@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?..
Rebuilt a pc recently. Wouldnt boot, unplugged everything plugged it back it and it would boot but no video output, unplugged it all again, plugged back in, boots but when i restarted my pc it wouldnt read the ssd unless i unplugged the other one, started, plugged the main back in, in short. I took all the panels off and back on probably 5 times before i got a solid working setup
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
I remember in highschool my tech teacher had us build computers, i was able to get mine done in 2 days (beginner ofc). Only issue i had was that after loading and turning it on i had an automatic crash in the system. He told me that it was okay and all I had to do was retrace my steps and make sure I didnt miss anything.
Haha, happened to me when I finished building my first pc (which is the only one I've built so far) and had to take the panels off to inspect why it wasn't booting up. But the reason it didn't boot up was that one of the cables wasn't connected properly to the psu
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!! ❤
I always fully build mine before booting as a show of faith in my handiwork. I triple check everything before i put panels on and then boot. Never failed me yet.
Its because the spark thats used to power on your computer requires oxygen flow todo so. Especially when you turn it on for the first time every part is required to sync up at-least once. so after im pretty sure as long as you have a little bit of airflow your computer should start without an issue.
Nothing feels better then getting it right on the first try. It just happened to me last week. It immediately booted, all RGB fans worked, ect.. It's the best feeling!
Last pc I built wouldn't boot. I sighed and told my friend it was time to get to troubleshooting, and there was no way to know how long that was going to take. I wiggled a few things, unplugged and replugged a few cables, and it magically worked. I have no clue what the issue was and I never will.
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.
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
At 9 fans and an AIO I was not risking having to take the panels off to fix 1 cable 😂 my current pc ran for like 15 minutes with no panels on until I was 100% sure all worked
I learned this golden rule back in the day repairing a ps2. It was my first repair. So many things went horribly wrong I can't believe I managed to get that thing working again.
For anyone curious this is 2 parts for most IT people. First part is a token of good old fashioned superstition, sometimes tech does WHATEVER it wants and its entirely guesswork WHY it did it even if its a system you know. 2. Is time saving, that cord you never plugged in? Yeah its easier to do that with the panels off than taking them all BACK off before fixing a 2 second mistakd
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?!?
@@DanKamYouKnowW creator
@@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 😂😂 💀
😎😎😎
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
"So what's your philosophy on airflow?"
"YES!"
Negative pressure first thing I noticed haha
@@edgarbustos9744 I think some of them are just reverse blade fans
I thought the extremely excessive fans was the joke.
They are reverse fans - also not full 120mm because of the RGB that has to fit in the frame.
Overall, six reverse intake, four regular exhaust with three pushing against a rad, pretty balanced actually, if anything it's a slight positive pressure.
Bro was tightening that pc like it was a Harley 😂
Honestly i think that was the joke😂
Nah bro he was tightening that shit like a Heavy duty diesel
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.
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
That “hOw tHa fU-“ at the end was perspnal💀💀💀
I was like that 😂 HOW THE F
yeah like I ate a donut with hair on it
Perspanel
Ain't nothing personal in a lil how the f imo
how
-what are u crafting?
-A HELICOPTAAAAA
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
This applies to ANYTHING that you have opened up, taken apart, fixed
epaired
eplaced, reconnected everything, and don't test it first before putting it completely back together & sealed again... Its one of the few universal truths...
It is an age old rule. It’s like how u check an engine before assembling the entire car frame
I love that you're always cranking some random ahh component. Half expecting a cable extension at this point lmaoo
🫡🫡🫡🤣🤣🤣
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
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
Also, the first step to trouble shooting is always to make sure your power supply is on, I’ve spent too much time trying to figure out what was wrong just to have it be the power supply switch
Next step is re-check that you wired the front pannel power button the right way :P
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
@@DanKamYouKnow fr
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
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
As an IT veteran, I can confirm that if the panels are on for the first boot, it won't boot.
Ever.
It's hubris: you taunt the PC gods if you close your panel before a boot test
That f bomb got me 😂😂
🤣🤣🤣
I Said the Same Thing LOL
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.
That computer was nuclear powered
Torque wrench had me at first 😂
There is always an "age-old rule" for anything. Don't stick to the rule, and Something WILL go wrong. 😂🤫
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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
Guy: -How many coolers, sir?
DanKam: -ALL of them !
Fun fact: The rule is in former reality the opposite: In old PCs, the side panel needed to be closed because it pushed a little switch. If the switch was not pushed (or bypassed with a jumper), it would post into "Error: panel open" message (sorry, don't know the exact message from before year 2k error).
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💀
For best results, you gotta do first boot on the motherboard box.
You mean the switch on the motherboard that turns on the pc?
amen
I've built 9 PCs at this point and I've been fortunate enough to never have one fail to boot.
These are funny as hell to me, keep em coming bro 👍
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
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
Gets me every time. It’s like a personal challenge at this point.
Final step: torque PC to 100ft/lbs
Bro your videos are amazing! Keep it up
Thank you!!!!
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.
Dude had his foot on the power strip button
Rebuilt a pc recently. Wouldnt boot, unplugged everything plugged it back it and it would boot but no video output, unplugged it all again, plugged back in, boots but when i restarted my pc it wouldnt read the ssd unless i unplugged the other one, started, plugged the main back in, in short. I took all the panels off and back on probably 5 times before i got a solid working setup
Bro is the Micheal Jordan of pc building
🤣🤣🤣😂
We're done with the 90s!!! lmao
every time i watch your vids they make my day
Thanks for this nice comment! Appreciate it!
The torque wrench was the best touch, how much torque you hit those panel fasteners with lol
Man those lights turning on gave me a whole new life 😮
Bro you are awsome thanks for giving these op tips ❤
This one is just a joke but you’re welcome!
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
I've seen alot of your videos and enjoyed them. But this one takes the cake.
You earned a sub.
Even if this didn’t happen, if it doesn’t boot, you’ll have to take the panels off to look around for the issue
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
Bro love your vids my guy
Appreciate the support!!!!
The torque wrench is there so the fans dont warp after bolting in star pattern
Sometimes im so confident in my build that I just put on the panels back on and watch it boot straight to bios 🤣
Bro is cooking with the pc with a RTX 4069 🔥🔥🔥
That build looks sick! What are the specs?
If you close it before testing, you WILL need to open it again.
That’s a beautiful build 🤯
"How the fu-" got me dying😅😂😂
I remember in highschool my tech teacher had us build computers, i was able to get mine done in 2 days (beginner ofc). Only issue i had was that after loading and turning it on i had an automatic crash in the system. He told me that it was okay and all I had to do was retrace my steps and make sure I didnt miss anything.
man i wish i had a computer like that
I make sure it boots on an anti static bag before even mounting the motherboard. Been there more than once with doa boards, ram, etc.
"That doesn't matter"
Oh you sweet, summer soul.
I'd love to see more builders driving the bolts to spec'd torque😂
Literally did exactly this with my first gaming PC. I didn't even do anything, I just took off the side panel and it decided everything was good to go
Haha, happened to me when I finished building my first pc (which is the only one I've built so far) and had to take the panels off to inspect why it wasn't booting up. But the reason it didn't boot up was that one of the cables wasn't connected properly to the psu
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!! ❤
First rule is to breadboard the build and check all the parts work
Mimir: good old classic kratos always use brute strength even when building a computer
If you've built more than about 3 computers, then you know the terror of the Power button.
I always fully build mine before booting as a show of faith in my handiwork. I triple check everything before i put panels on and then boot. Never failed me yet.
ahh yes, the little known PC building master-tool: the torque wrench.
At least he didn't forget the power switch!
The PC hates over confidence. It can also smell fear, but respects caution.
Man i love these videos so much
Its because the spark thats used to power on your computer requires oxygen flow todo so. Especially when you turn it on for the first time every part is required to sync up at-least once. so after im pretty sure as long as you have a little bit of airflow your computer should start without an issue.
I can confirm I always leave my back panel off after I put a better water cooler in it
some metal parts of side panels can touch mother board, which provoke overheat, short circuit, power supply problems.
Putting the panels on before making sure the PC boots is like counting your chickens before they hatch.
To be fair the fans should twitch for just a fraction of a second for true realism.
Bro was cranking with that ratchet.. I thought something was really finna break off 😂
Nothing feels better then getting it right on the first try. It just happened to me last week. It immediately booted, all RGB fans worked, ect.. It's the best feeling!
My dad doesn't know that canned air only gets the surface dust off, not the stuff that's actually stuck to it
Last pc I built wouldn't boot. I sighed and told my friend it was time to get to troubleshooting, and there was no way to know how long that was going to take. I wiggled a few things, unplugged and replugged a few cables, and it magically worked. I have no clue what the issue was and I never will.
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.
You know you built a good pc when you need to use a comically large torque wrench to tighten it
I love the dramatization with the torque wrench 😂😂😂
People just don't understand just HOW important it is to always torque your bolts to the right spec when building a PC
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
Anyone who's done this learns that a single mistake, loose connection or something can force you to take it apart to find the problem.
Bro for real and the torque wrench is funny af.
At 9 fans and an AIO I was not risking having to take the panels off to fix 1 cable 😂 my current pc ran for like 15 minutes with no panels on until I was 100% sure all worked
This rule is with everything. Don't put off your tools before you check it. Otherwise, everything is gonna fail.
I learned this golden rule back in the day repairing a ps2. It was my first repair. So many things went horribly wrong I can't believe I managed to get that thing working again.
The beginning:😀
The end:😂
its moments like that, that i start wondering how crazy tech priests really are.
Funniest thing is, if your pc aint working : Pull out your Ram and put it back in and viola!
Bros overclocking the PC with a wrench 🔧
Not pointing the panels on is so, if (when) you mess something up, you don’t have to remove them to fix it.
I thought the first rule of PC building was making sure it'd survive the drop test.
One the greatest mysteries of PC Building.
For anyone curious this is 2 parts for most IT people. First part is a token of good old fashioned superstition, sometimes tech does WHATEVER it wants and its entirely guesswork WHY it did it even if its a system you know. 2. Is time saving, that cord you never plugged in? Yeah its easier to do that with the panels off than taking them all BACK off before fixing a 2 second mistakd