general-chat

[nocturne flicker]

When I first glanced at this I thought it was a man sticking his hand in a socket

[dusk knot]

youve watched most of ST right?

[idle nexus]

lol ig I could see that

when you turn on PSU & push start the power button on the case, what happens?

[barren junco]

i’m gonna plug in the yellow one rn

one sec

[velvet summit]

you should do that

[idle nexus]

you don't have to redo it, just wondering what's happened in the past, i.e., does it do nothing at all or does it try to start & doesn't output signal

[velvet summit]

tell us how it feels

[nocturne flicker]

[velvet summit]

[dusk knot]

@rancid juniper cant wait to delete OW2 for RIVALS

[idle nexus]

I've burned a screwdriver putting it in a socket & got buzzed by it too. It does not feel nice lol

[rancid juniper]

to be free from the OW curse

[nocturne flicker]

I actually stuck a finger in a socket as a child

[idle nexus]

ouch

[rancid juniper]

._.

[barren junco]

alright just plugged in the yellow one and to turn on it hold on

[nocturne flicker]

I don't really remember much besides the light of the electricity sparking, it was when I was really young and my memory is bleh on a normal day

[barren junco]

nothing happens

nothing works

[idle nexus]

okay heck let me check something

[barren junco]

do i plug the pcie one next to the cpu 8 pin

[velvet summit]

earlier in dms i told them to try shorting the power switch pins and there was no reaction at all, but that was before i noticed the gpu being off

have you tried doing that again after getting the gpu in properly

[idle nexus]

can you remove the front panel header thing & just short those two pins together

[rancid juniper]

BRO BROKE MY CAR

[storm narwhal]

HOW

Beamng aah car

[rancid juniper]

bozo spawned ontop of me and the weight shoved my car to the ground

[velvet summit]

wheels in front like

[rancid juniper]

lol

[dusk knot]

officially

[dusk knot]

the wheels lmao. how did it get there???

[rancid juniper]

crazy that this is roblox

[rancid juniper]

broke off

[barren junco]

just tapped both of them w a screw driver

[rancid juniper]

WORKING DASH??? WHAT

[idle nexus]

so it completed the circuit between them I mean

[barren junco]

how do i know if it did

[idle nexus]

it would turn on the PC if it worked but otherwise you might not know

[velvet summit]

fans should at least twitch ususally

if it doesnt, either it wasnt shorted successfully or the psu isnt providing power

[barren junco]

nothing moved

[idle nexus]

the PSU isn't turning on or being told to so I'd say check that each connection is fully seated

[barren junco]

okay

[idle nexus]

make sure the clip is past the little plastic stopper thing

[velvet summit]

24 pin was seated correctly when i looked

[dusk knot]

what are you doing here?

[rancid juniper]

just driving around

[barren junco]

do i plug that in next to the cpu power

[dusk knot]

wanna vc and stream?

im bored

[velvet summit]

yes

[barren junco]

okay

[rancid juniper]

yea but i probably wont talk, its loud rn

[dusk knot]

rip

[rancid juniper]

unless

[dusk knot]

[rancid juniper]

i use AMD noisesuppression

yea

everyone likes that

[dusk knot]

yes

[rancid juniper]

one moment

[idle nexus]

you should, at minimum, have connections at the two blue slots, the orange, & one of the green

[barren junco]

i made sure everything was plugged in

[sour falcon]

Alright see y’all in a week

[idle nexus]

which CPU are you using btw

[barren junco]

and ryzen 7 7700x

[idle nexus]

I see. You could try removing the GPU & using the CPU's iGPU temporarily. I think the issue is PSU related tho

[barren junco]

my psu connections

[idle nexus]

it's kind of a mission

but we could test the PSU by itself

[barren junco]

how we do that

[idle nexus]

take the PSU out, disconnect everything

[barren junco]

damn

okay

[idle nexus]

then take the 24-pin cable out & reconnect it

let me find something one second

[barren junco]

alright

[idle nexus]

before you reconnect the PSU to wall power

take a paperclip and short those two pins together

make sure the clip part it on top like that

[barren junco]

do i disconnect every cable connected to the psu or just the 24

[idle nexus]

disconnect everything else

only the 24-pin's two connections should be connected to the PSU

& after you short it like that (4th & 5th pin on the top--again, check that the clip is on top), reconnect wall power & when you turn on the PSU switch on the back it should start spinning the PSU's fan

[barren junco]

alright give me a sec

[unreal trail]

so stagger gauges are a bit overplayed at this point, can we find a new way to fight enemies?

[barren junco]

long ah paperclip but it’s in

[fervent stump]

Is that ok

[idle nexus]

btw what were you powering should work with that molex connection on the PSU

I mean, yes

that should work just don't touch it to anything metal & try turning on the PSU

cuz like 3v is gonna go thru there

[barren junco]

i took out the paperclip connected it back to the motherboard and turned on the psu then the case but nothing

[idle nexus]

sorry I was a little unclear I thinkj

you want to keep the 24-pin disconnected from the motherboard

[barren junco]

ITS ON

[idle nexus]

& only have the wall power to the PSU & the 24-pin connected

wait the whole computer is? lol

[barren junco]

i kept the pin in

no just the supply

[idle nexus]

okay good

the PSU is fine then

[barren junco]

progress 🙌🙌

[idle nexus]

you can turn off the switch & take the paperclip out lol

[barren junco]

will i get shock if i touch the paperclip

[idle nexus]

even if the PSU is running, you shouldn't because it's very little voltage

better to turn it off entirely before removing tho

[barren junco]

alright done

[idle nexus]

turn it off & disconnect the cable from the wall safest

[barren junco]

disconnected from the wall 👍

[idle nexus]

okay so definitely make sure the 24-pin is seated well on the motherboard

when you reconnect it I mean

[barren junco]

there it should be good

[idle nexus]

you can try turning on the PC again since we know the PSU is working

[barren junco]

do i connect everything again

[idle nexus]

but if it doesn't do anything again, we should probably remove the GPU & go one-by-one

you can if you want to try it again

[barren junco]

yeah nothing turns on when i plugged everything in

not even the psu

[idle nexus]

okay did you also reconnect the front panel header so the power button on the case turns it on or short those two again?

[fervent stump]

I love my nzxt fan

[idle nexus]

by which I mean these two

[fervent stump]

This is my best friend

[barren junco]

yeah it’s connected

but whenever i tap the two pins with a screwdriver nothing twitches

[idle nexus]

okay let's take the GPU out first

sorry I know this is a mission but we're trying to isolate the problem llol

[barren junco]

took me hours to put it in 😔

[sinful blade]

I have watched up until s7 of voyager and that’s it so far

[barren junco]

we progressing doe

🙂‍↕️

[idle nexus]

well we know the problem is not the PSU so that's some progress lol

[dusk knot]

not bad

[sweet phoenix]

make sure ram is slotted in fully?

[barren junco]

do i remove it completely from the case or just unplug the 12 pin

[sweet phoenix]

also is it possible bios needs an update

[idle nexus]

let's take it out of the case entirely for now just to make it easier to get to everything

[barren junco]

okay

[icy ore]

[idle nexus]

I hate to say this too but it's probably best to disconnect everything that isn't totally necessary

[idle nexus]

from the board I mean

[sinful blade]

Me watching from the sidelines

[barren junco]

alright it’s out

[idle nexus]

for sure it's worth checking that the RAM is seated correctly like @sweet phoenix said

[barren junco]

do i remove it and add it again

for the fam

ram

[idle nexus]

it's not even showing signs of life when we short the power button header

[idle nexus]

might as well

[barren junco]

okay

[sweet phoenix]

thats what my 13600k and z690 did

[idle nexus]

but we did the short the 24-pin thing & the PSU is okay

[sweet phoenix]

until i updated bios

[velvet summit]

they have am5

[idle nexus]

it's B650 with 7700x iirc

[sweet phoenix]

ah ok

[fervent stump]

Can I do b650 with 9700x

[idle nexus]

yes

or B850 I think

[sweet phoenix]

not out yet

[idle nexus]

oh ya there's that lmao

[sweet phoenix]

9700x=7700x w pbo and lower power consumption

[idle nexus]

sorry

[sweet phoenix]

no lmao youre good

x870 is

but b650s and b650e's are much better value

[idle nexus]

X870 is just X670E but required usb 5 or something?

[sweet phoenix]

like b650m hdv at $100 is fantastic

[sweet phoenix]

smthn like that

[idle nexus]

ya they're almost like... silly really

[sweet phoenix]

the only one i suggest is the riptide and that's in very overpriced builds

b650e riptide is alr fantastic

[idle nexus]

riptide is a good board ya

[barren junco]

alr i disconnected then reconnected the ram

[idle nexus]

I'm using Taichi. It's not fair for me to criticize it honestly since I ripped up my CPU & forced a not direct die waterblock to work lol

[idle nexus]

GPU is out?

[barren junco]

yes

[idle nexus]

on the top left the disconnected wire

does it break into two 4 pin connections?

[barren junco]

the left one yes the right one let me check

[idle nexus]

what is this btw?

oh disconnected GPU power nvm

[barren junco]

i can’t take it out it’s stuck cuz of the aio

[idle nexus]

it's fine I thought there was some crazy connection there I missed no worries

[barren junco]

lmao

[velvet summit]

technically it is a crazy connection

[idle nexus]

trace that back to the PSU & disconnect it just in case it is a PCIe

since you already have CPU power connected next to it as supplemental

[barren junco]

is that the one on the top left

cpu power?

oh tou want me to remove the 4 pin cables from the left of the cpu power one ?

[idle nexus]

the one that both sides are connected

alternatively, check all the cables you have left that are not in use on the PSU

& see if any of them have 4+4 connection

just to verify it's not a 6+2

[wraith fern]

i hate windows

i have music playing right

i press fn f7

and it starts playing a youtube tab

why

[pliant berry]

welcome to my world

[wraith fern]

i hate it

its so stupid

[pliant berry]

it really is

[barren junco]

there’s only this one

the rest are weird ones like sata, a 1x4 and another sata

[fervent stump]

Ughhhh

To many cables for me

I don’t like this

[idle nexus]

okay ya that's 6+2

I jsut wanna make sure you don't have a 6+2 connected to the CPU connection at the top

[barren junco]

the cable currently plugged is a cpu cable it says

[idle nexus]

okay good

[barren junco]

what’s next

[storm narwhal]

That's par for the course for rgb

Cable management

[idle nexus]

have you cleared CMOS already?

btw I'm not ignoring you I'm trying to see if there's anything in the piecture that explains why the PSU won't even start

any chance you like put your CPU cooler on way too tight? are there other NVMes under the silver heatsink under the PCIe x16 slot?

[barren junco]

uh the cooler might be a little tight screwed

it took me some time to put that one on

i’ll loosen it rq

[barren junco]

what’s that

[barren junco]

i did but removed it

[idle nexus]

that little 2-pin headerr there that resets BIOS to factory defaults

[barren junco]

is that on the bottom right?

[idle nexus]

heck if you removed the cooler, did you check that the CPU was seated properly while you were there by any chance?

[idle nexus]

yes right above the front panel connections

[barren junco]

when i installed it i fiddled it a bit to make sure it was on

[idle nexus]

what are you powering with the molex connection btw

or sata power

the only other connection on the PSU I mean

[barren junco]

aio power or rgb im not sure what cables are connected to my sata but its one of the two

[idle nexus]

just for the sake of argument, try disconnecting that & check if it it'll start

[barren junco]

alright

without the gpu installed or with

[idle nexus]

without

we're looking for signs of life here lol

we know the PSU is fine

[barren junco]

the molex is a 6 pin correct

[barren junco]

molex is disconnected and nothing

[idle nexus]

this one

[barren junco]

i disconnected that one but nothing moves

[idle nexus]

did you already try shorting the CMOS header too?

[barren junco]

do i keep the 4 pin disconnected

[idle nexus]

(power should be off technically)

[idle nexus]

that's fine for now

[rancid juniper]

@idle nexus wanna join vc

[idle nexus]

there's another connection already

[idle nexus]

I'm down once this computer starts

I'm determined

lol

[rancid juniper]

alr thanks

[barren junco]

nothing still

[velvet summit]

shorting cmos jumper wont make any visible changes; though you need to hold it for a few seconds, and make sure the pc is unplugged from the wall before doing so

[barren junco]

just to make sure i’m i doing sum wrong when shortwiring

[idle nexus]

if it's easier, you can remove that battery next to it (CMOS Battery) entirely

[barren junco]

how do you do that

[idle nexus]

use a flat head on the right side of it

[velvet summit]

i hate taking out the cmos battery

[idle nexus]

kinda push it to the side & the battery will jump out lol

that little clip is what's keeping it in

I'm kinda mind blown that this thing hasn't even spun a fan yet

like it's nuts

[wraith fern]

i just cant wait to get a stream deck in about a month so all of this can turn into issues from the past

🙏

[onyx merlin]

how long do Western SSD drives SN850X typically last ?

[wraith fern]

probably a while?

[onyx merlin]

I got 1617GB writes on it

[barren junco]

i’m bout to break the battery bro

[onyx merlin]

downloaded tons of games

[wraith fern]

dude if your drive was only rated for 1600 gb i wouldn't buy it

[onyx merlin]

no.. its western drive its second best SSD on Market

the best being Samsung 990 pro

[pliant berry]

Hopefully

[wraith fern]

right, so what's the point of asking this

[pliant berry]

Also btw some music players support global keybinds for things like playback. Not sure if you knew about that already

[wraith fern]

yeah

i mean usually f7 is fine

[onyx merlin]

2400TB

[wraith fern]

i prolly just need to restart my pc

[onyx merlin]

is writes its good for

[wraith fern]

great

so you're about 1/1200th of the way there

[idle nexus]

try starting it with the cooler removed this is crazy

[velvet summit]

https://tenor.com/view/erm-what-the-sigma-gif-9316257842858237450

[wraith fern]

also might want to take into account MTBF

[onyx merlin]

well slowing down on installs now..

[wraith fern]

dawg

[idle nexus]

I hate to depend on reddit for something but: https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/1bbcubx/pink_lights_around_chipset_on_b650m/

[onyx merlin]

should last 4-5 years

[wraith fern]

how long have you had it

??????

what are you downloading????

[onyx merlin]

@wraith fern few days

[wraith fern]

you'll be fine

i doubt you'll use 2400tb in a few years

that's a lot of data to be constantly cycling

[onyx merlin]

tons of video games but I am slowing down now I got alot of what I want installed its new PC

[wraith fern]

you'll be fine

[barren junco]

i got the battery out

[onyx merlin]

its cold today

[pliant berry]

My ingest drive

[proud jackal]

[wraith fern]

[onyx merlin]

also got 4 TB HDD and base 2TB SSD which came with computer.

[idle nexus]

just leave it out for a few minutes then pop it back in lol

[barren junco]

okay

[onyx merlin]

so how much ram you all rocking ?

[idle nexus]

make sure you put it back in the same way

[lone mango]

32

[onyx merlin]

I am guessing 64-128GB

I got 64

[idle nexus]

2x32gb cuz it's so cheap now

[barren junco]

alright

[pliant berry]

I should redo my pc drive layout at this point. I have 1tb ssd os drive. A 2tb hdd game drive, 1tb hdd other game or file drive, and a 4tb ssd for ingest/editing

[barren junco]

what can i do in the meantime or do i put it in now

[proud jackal]

FATALITY

[wraith fern]

hi theo

hjows it going

[onyx merlin]

@pliant berry my 2TB OS drive trying to keep it for just OS and mabey a few games down road.. my 4TB SSD is mainly for modern AAA games that require lots of space.. and my 4TB HDD for old games

[idle nexus]

don't take the CPU cooler off but maybe just loosen it so it's kinda chillin there

[proud jackal]

[idle nexus]

just for the sake of argument

[wraith fern]

oof

i got the week off

very thankful for that

[pliant berry]

Os drive I keep exclusively for windows, applications and cache

[wraith fern]

rich people things

[onyx merlin]

but overall total of 10TB of space is good

can never go wrong

[barren junco]

alright the cooler is currently just chilling

[onyx merlin]

with that much

[wraith fern]

i shove most stuff on my primary drive and some of the other stuff on my other ssd

mainly flight sim stuff

[pliant berry]

I mean even keeping that strict separation i still only have 100-200gb free on that one lol

[velvet summit]

nas time

nas time

[wraith fern]

das time

[velvet summit]

san time

san time

[idle nexus]

let's try putting the battery back in

[barren junco]

okay

[idle nexus]

put it in on the left side under the two little black tabs then push the other side in & it'll clip in under that metal on the right

btw none of these lights light up right?

[barren junco]

absolutely nothing turns on or moves

battery is back in its original place

[idle nexus]

try to start it again. If that doesn't work we could try flashing BIOS with the Qflash thing on the back

really more than anything I wanna see if it'll flash the lights to indicate there's some sort of life on this board what the heck

[barren junco]

my cooler fell off

[idle nexus]

ah crap I didn't mean that loose

[barren junco]

i just put it back in

[winter canopy]

thats unfortunate

[barren junco]

nothing turned on

😭😭

[idle nexus]

@mortal grail sorry for ping but we're struggling here lol

[barren junco]

can it be that some cables are not in its right place

[idle nexus]

I've looked at every inch of this board & can't find anything obviously wrong unless the 24-pin isn't completely seated

I can't tell from the angle I have

is there any gap there at all?

same with CPU 4+4s?

[barren junco]

Not in the 24 pin or the cpu power

i put some pressure on them and they tight

[idle nexus]

is there any chance a screw fell in behind that heatsink where the other NVMes go & is shorting something? are there more NVMes than the Samsung one?

[barren junco]

i’m positive there isn’t but i’ll check

[idle nexus]

I'm almost at the point of saying pull the whole board out & set it on the box & connect the PSU to it there so you can see if it turns on with nothing connected but CPU, the NVMe, RAM, the 24-pin, & the 4+4 CPU power

[wraith fern]

which is the best

hi-res lossless?

not concerned about internet usage

[barren junco]

i’ll do anything to get it to work i’ve been at it for two days

[wraith fern]

honestly it certainly made everything louder

lmao

[idle nexus]

I think Hi-Res Lossless is best technically

[wraith fern]

yeah that's what i switched too

i just hear a lot more bass

lol

[idle nexus]

how long ago did you get the motherboard? did you have to wait a long time for it?

it really seems like the board is just bad

[barren junco]

i got next day shipping but it’s been sitting on a table for like a month

[idle nexus]

I really hate to say it but I'm running out of ideas here

ah damn so the return period is closed so you'd have to go thru Gigabyte's RMA mission?

[barren junco]

i guess

so there’s nothing i can do then?

[idle nexus]

it's brand new I don't see why it's giving you this much trouble. Like it's one thing to turn on & not POST

It's not the PSU's fault

[wraith fern]

has it booted when it's just sitting on the box

[idle nexus]

we don't know if the GPU has issues but have no reasons to believe it does

[barren junco]

is there anything else i can try 😭

[idle nexus]

try taking it out of the case; connect only the 24-pin & the 4+4 for CPU; put one RAM stick in the third slot from the CPU; & try to start it with the absolute bare minimum connected as possible

you can even take the NVMe off

no cooler

no fans, no front panel header, nothing

the CPU won't overheat or get damaged so no cooler

just to see if the board is capable of turning on at all

[barren junco]

that’ll take a minute i’m doing it rn

[idle nexus]

okay

[wraith fern]

hows it going ggood

[idle nexus]

sorry to make you take the whole thing apart but jeez

it's not going lol

I don't get it

[wraith fern]

doesnt really matter if mobo wont work

[gilded kraken]

Siiiick, Amazon delivered my case fans. I can build my PC now

8 days early at that

[idle nexus]

we tested the PSU & it ran with just the 4th & 5th pins shorted on the 24-pin

ya I guess it doesn't since it's going to have to come out anyway unless you're building a computer statue that isn't functional

[wraith fern]

yea

exactly

[idle nexus]

so it's not a PSU issue... we know that much. Whether the GPU is installed or not, it doesn't even light up with power on so no reason to think the GPU is the issue

[wraith fern]

its probably just a faulty mobo

wouldnt be surprising

[idle nexus]

earlier the cooler came off & the CPU was reseated

[wraith fern]

no cpu damage?

no bent pins?

[idle nexus]

tried reseating RAM

I haven't seen a picture of the socket but usually it would at least try to turn on

[wraith fern]

can they just try to post without cpu or ram or gpu

[idle nexus]

it acts like there's no power to it at all

[wraith fern]

and just see if anything lights up

theorhetically they'd just get a cpu error right

it sounds like a faulty motherboard to me

[idle nexus]

they're taking it out of the case now to try to just breadbox it & see if it'll turn on at all

I hate to say it but it's looking more & more like the board is borked

[wraith fern]

that's what you're supposed to do apparently when you build, before putting it in the case, but i've never done that

lol

for me the worst part of building is getting windows to boot lol

[wraith fern]

sadly that's what it seems like

[idle nexus]

windows can be tricky sometimes cuz of all that TPM & whatever keys crap

[wraith fern]

i hate windows

[idle nexus]

the security features complicate it lol

[wraith fern]

windows is a pain

i was trying to look at photos earlier and my file explorer kept on freezing so i just didnt

i actually looked at them by uploading them into lightroom

[idle nexus]

damn sounds like you might be dealing with reinstall soon

[wraith fern]

ugh

i dont want to

[idle nexus]

sfc & dism don't really do anything?

[wraith fern]

wdym

well it froze once so i just gave up and uploaded them into lightroom

it mightve just been my sd card

[idle nexus]

killing all the startup crap doesn't help?

[wraith fern]

it probably did

didnt try that

lmao

[idle nexus]

you run cmd as admin

then write:
sfc /scannow

[wraith fern]

you want me to repair files?

[idle nexus]

it checks for corruption & stuff that supposedly helps

[wraith fern]

i dont think any are corrupted

i did that recently

its freaking out, its probably because i have like 10000 photos on that sd card

[barren junco]

alright everything is off time to turn it on

[idle nexus]

then do:
dism /online /cleanup-image /scanhealth

then:

[wraith fern]

yeah i've done that before

i did it recently to fix corrupted files

[idle nexus]

dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth

ya kinda meh

[barren junco]

IT BLINKED

a light blinked then turned off

[idle nexus]

lol holy crap that's actually something

[wraith fern]

thats good

that means mobo isn't completely cooked

[idle nexus]

you started it by shorting the f_panel header thing?

[wraith fern]

that's the best part of a new build

[barren junco]

no i just connected the cable from the outlet to the psu and it blinked

[idle nexus]

okay well put one RAM stick in & try to start it

[barren junco]

YESs

[wraith fern]

ah great news

[barren junco]

i shorted it and it turned on the psu spinning and the lights under that rectangle thing as well

[idle nexus]

& RAM lit up

so next add the NVMe & try again

basically we wanna keep adding components until we find the "bad" one

[barren junco]

okay

[idle nexus]

so ya add the NVMe & the other RAM DIMM

[barren junco]

okay

[wraith fern]

well you should get a light telling you what it is

[barren junco]

ssd and second ram in

everything on again

progress bruh

🥳

[idle nexus]

I'm glad you were down to go thru this mission cuz if you had said no I would've honestly thought it was just a borked board

[barren junco]

i spent 5 years trying to build a pc

it costed me 5 paychecks

😭

what’s next

[idle nexus]

throw the GPU on there lol

[gilded kraken]

you do it again in 4-5 years

[barren junco]

no cooler is on the cpu i touched it

it hot

do i still do gpu

[idle nexus]

this is just for testing

but really you could throw it back in the case

connect only what you have connected rn

make sure it turns on again

[barren junco]

no i’ll keep testing it’s just i don’t want it to like explode or sum

[idle nexus]

it won't explode lol

[wraith fern]

u think one of the standoffs could cause it to short circuit

[idle nexus]

if it's overheating really bad it'll throttle or shut off

[wraith fern]

you do have standoffs installed right

[barren junco]

i did yeah

[idle nexus]

heck I didn't think about standoffs

oh good okay lol

[wraith fern]

that was the first thing i thought of lol

its just an easy thing to forget

[barren junco]

so do i add the gpu

[wraith fern]

yeah go ahead

[idle nexus]

ya or if you install the standoffs but not in the pattern you're supposed to or with an extra one that ends up poking the back of the board or lands right on an SMD or something

if nothing else, at least this whole mission made you able to not have to use the PCIe 6+2s to 12vhpwr adapter lol

[barren junco]

gpu is on the board now

[idle nexus]

don't forget 12vhpwr for GPU

[barren junco]

oh yea

gpu turned on

[idle nexus]

time to get it to work in the case?

[barren junco]

alright so i’ll disconnect everything and put it back in the case

[wraith fern]

wait

what was the issue

[idle nexus]

we're still not sure

[wraith fern]

@barren junco

why dont you plug it into your monitor

lets see if we get an output

you've gone through all this trouble

[idle nexus]

maybe I'm jumping the gun lol

[wraith fern]

well i mean you might as well do it now

at least see if it boots to bios

[barren junco]

i’ll get it rq

[barren junco]

when i unplugged everything i put the 2x2 cable that says cpu into the cpu power instead of the 2x4 cpu cable

idk if that does anything

[idle nexus]

you can connect all three if you want to since your PSU comes with two. I'm not sure you need all three but I think at least two hold on

[barren junco]

okay

[unreal trail]

[idle nexus]

seems like 144w is the limit on a single 4-pin & 7700x only pulls like 105w

[barren junco]

so it’s fine if i keep everything on like this

will anything overheat

[idle nexus]

that's fine you already have two 4-pins there

the CPU is gonna be a little hot but it won't let itself get damaged

if you want tho

connect the cooler

& run it outside the case too

you've almost connected everything at this point anyway. If somehow the cooler is the issue, this would be the easiest time to find out

[barren junco]

okay

[gilded kraken]

oh man this Lian Li 011D evo XL is waaaaay bigger than I thought. I expected it to be shorter

Its super wide lol

[idle nexus]

put a bed in there & rent it out lol

[gilded kraken]

My meshify 2 XL is big and this thing is Bigger. maybe a lille less deep

[idle nexus]

I'm using a Level 20 GT & a View71 both of which are pretty massive

but aging lol

[gilded kraken]

if the 5080 isnt giant its gonna look comical

[barren junco]

does this need more thermal paste

[idle nexus]

if you have something you can use to kind of move it back towards the middle?

[proud jackal]

[idle nexus]

so it'll spread out evenly again?

could just put another drip in the middle so it'll spread it out

[barren junco]

it came with like a spoon thing

[storm narwhal]

Or you could use the spoon and spread it a bit first after you add a little more

[barren junco]

i will

wait i’ll do it after we test it cuz imma have to remove the cooler to put it inside the case again

or do i?

[idle nexus]

If you're planning on leaving it on there & reinstalling it in the case without taking it off again, I'd take the time to try to make sure there's plenty on there & it's resonably even & all that

[barren junco]

i think i’ll just do that

[storm narwhal]

Yeah

[gleaming rivet]

do we not have enough paste for a wipe and repaste?

[storm narwhal]

Usually an x pattern gives the best coverage but can also cause spillover

[idle nexus]

you probably could keep it connected & reinstall it but it'll probably end up more difficult than just doing it another time

& those AM5 IHSs aren't the best for spillover lol

[storm narwhal]

Yeah I was also gonna ask why not just wipe and repaste

[barren junco]

yeah i don’t have enough unfortunately

[storm narwhal]

Rip

Well, extra dot and spread it a bit then

[idle nexus]

which is kinda why people buy these ig? lol

[gleaming rivet]

how's your amazon shipping times?

[barren junco]

whats this for

[idle nexus]

what the heck did that come with? lol

[gleaming rivet]

it's for that one thing

[barren junco]

this all i got

[gleaming rivet]

that's tons of paste

[storm narwhal]

What is that sticker pack

Also you have more than enough for 2 reapplications

Maybe 3

[idle nexus]

maybe to spread it on am5 without it falling under the IHS?

[barren junco]

it came in the same bag as the paste

[gleaming rivet]

yeah totally enough paste there.

[idle nexus]

does it have like a pattern thing of the IHS you can pull it off with?

[gleaming rivet]

wipe and repaste

[barren junco]

it has like a hexagon holes

[storm narwhal]

Yeah I don't understand the sticker pack it came with lol

Maybe it is to control the spread before applying the cooler

[barren junco]

do i use it or just put the paste

[storm narwhal]

I'd just put the paste

[barren junco]

okay

[gleaming rivet]

What did the paste come with?

the AIO?

[barren junco]

it was in the aio yeah

[gleaming rivet]

what AIO is it?

[barren junco]

MONTECH

i can get the full name if you want

[gleaming rivet]

please

Hyperflow.

360??

[barren junco]

MONTECH hyper flow argb 360

[gleaming rivet]

It's a thermal paste stencil

the "stickers"

[barren junco]

should i use them

[gleaming rivet]

Ha

no

No reason

just apply enough paste. Doesn't matter how it gets on there as long as it's on there.

[barren junco]

😭

okay

is this enough

[gleaming rivet]

oughta be enough

[gleaming rivet]

looks like plenty. Most likely gonna squish a bit out.

Make sure you are evenly tightening the screws though.

[idle nexus]

sorry running a mission Will be back in like 20 minutes ish tho

[barren junco]

ofc

[gleaming rivet]

awesome

[barren junco]

i put a little more 😅

do i add the cooler now

[gleaming rivet]

a good rule of thumb is cross pattern and roughly 2 turns then move to next screw

[wraith fern]

hows it going

oh god i need to repaste my cpu but i really dont want to

[barren junco]

mine only has 2 screws

[wraith fern]

ive been putting it off. temps are fine so i dont care

i actually need to repaste my gpu. i do not want to do that

[gleaming rivet]

ah then 2 turns each screw

[wraith fern]

hi reo

[gleaming rivet]

so 2 turns left. 2 turns right. back to left 2 turns

then right

[barren junco]

got got it

[gleaming rivet]

ideally you want the screws to be the same torque as you're installing cooler

don't overtighten the screws either

[unreal trail]

me using a drill to fasten down my CPU because I'm impatient

[gleaming rivet]

I def use a drill on the fan screws. Aint nobody got time or wrist strength for that.

[tranquil pebble]

What I usually do is tighten until they start giving resistance then stop

[gleaming rivet]

some coolers maybe yeah. But some have the springs so you start getting resistance before they are tightened enough

[barren junco]

dude y’all do not know how much i struggled with the cooler

now where do i plug in the cables

[upper hawk]

It is finally cold enough to use pc without turning on the AC

[gleaming rivet]

I do. I front mounted an arctic 360 in a 4000D for my first build. It took me hours to get it in there.

[barren junco]

okay i’m just gonna get the system in the case

rq

[wraith fern]

@barren junco hows the build going?

you getting it working?

[barren junco]

i’m having trouble putting the motherboard in the case

[wraith fern]

oof

[barren junco]

the screws are just not going in

just an alignment problem

is there a specific pattern to screw it in

[rancid juniper]

4 years since i joined this server

[idle nexus]

if it's possible to put the case down on its side, that would make it a lot easier. Otherwise I usually do the middle row of three first, starting with the center one

[rancid juniper]

dude still building?

[idle nexus]

well oddly, it worked fine once removed from the case lol

[idle nexus]

heck I dunno when I joined but couldn't have been much more than 4 years

[barren junco]

the top left screw won’t screw in

[idle nexus]

are you screwing in the others all the way down? I try to leave them just a tad bit loose incase I have to move into place

[rancid juniper]

well knowing you guys are mods, you joined eons ago

[barren junco]

got it

i think i used a shorter screw

[idle nexus]

ah heck ya that'll do it

the worst is when it looks exactly the same except it's shorter lol

[fervent stump]

Whoever pinged me in pc builds it’s the h9 elite by nzxt

[idle nexus]

like the screw head I mean

[barren junco]

it’s happened too much today

so i got it all in

motherboard and aio installed

do i put the gpu or cables first

[dusk knot]

HMMMMM

[idle nexus]

it shouldn't matter as long as one doesn't make putting the other in more difficult

but I guess do the GPU since you already have the screwdriver around you lol

[barren junco]

the gpu mounting is so fricking hard bro

[idle nexus]

cuz I'd end up setting the screwdriver somewhere then getting all annoyed I couldn't remember where lol

[barren junco]

it just don’t go in

lol

[unreal trail]

thats what she said

[idle nexus]

you opened the clip before you started trying to seat it?

I wonder if that NVMe is what's making it somewhat of a pain

[gleaming rivet]

bro. this happens to me all the time

[idle nexus]

tbh I stopped getting NVMes with included heatsinks cuz even tho they're tiny they seem to always end up slightly in the way somehow lol

[barren junco]

it’s this part

the screw keeps falling and don’t line up

i’ve spent an hour last time putting it in

[idle nexus]

can you lift the side closer towards you up a bit?

[unreal trail]

one screw is enough tbh

[barren junco]

yeah

but then the DP are uneven on the side

[idle nexus]

tbh my solution for this has always pretty much been the same:

lol

[barren junco]

😂

[idle nexus]

does the case support vertical mount?

[barren junco]

yeah but i don’t have the bracket

[idle nexus]

are the screws holding in the motherboard centered in the holes?

maybe if there's a little play there it might make it easier

[barren junco]

holy shizza i think i did it first try

[idle nexus]

like kinda lift the board up a tiny bit to make putting the GPU in easier

oh nice

nvm then

[unreal trail]

Im sleep

[barren junco]

does this look mounted correctly

[idle nexus]

when you look at the case from the front, the GPU looks level?

[idle nexus]

I was skeptical at first but you seem to have it right that it doesn't line up with the top slot

it looks like it's in

[barren junco]

i hope it is

now what

oh cables

i’ll plug in what i know but there’s some that i don’t

[idle nexus]

heck I didn't get a good picture

[barren junco]

do i need a sata cable connected to my gpu for the aios cables that look like this

[idle nexus]

of mine but it looks like it's less on than it is for me too

[idle nexus]

connected to GPU?

[barren junco]

those are the wires that are connected to the fans i’m guessing

[idle nexus]

it should get all the power it needs for cooler, etc. from the PCIe slot & the 12vhpwr

[barren junco]

it came with the case

[idle nexus]

ohh is there like a hub?

[barren junco]

yes the top has a lot of like cables connected

[idle nexus]

damn does it get two of them?

[barren junco]

yeahh

[idle nexus]

you can probably run both off a single SATA from your PSU but you can run two separate ones to be on the safe side ig

I'd probably just power both off the same SATA

my bad is that what you're asking?

[barren junco]

yeah the youtube videos never told me what to use

now i know what cables are needed

[idle nexus]

lol those heckers really gave you these two types of screws?

they're like identical lol

[barren junco]

i got a mess on my table i can barely keep organized and they throw me identical screws

🤦‍♂️

[idle nexus]

strong glass is cool & all but this is too much Montech

[barren junco]

someone did a test of that and it didn’t even last 😭

[idle nexus]

lmao imagine trying to get a replacement from Montech's customer service

like ya I ran it over with my car like you said

[barren junco]

😭😭

[idle summit]

Fleeguys

[idle nexus]

so the two side 140mm & bottom three 120mm should be RX

okay so only the rear is AX

that's not as complicated as I thought

this case is wild. Two PSUs fit? lol

[barren junco]

i’m gonna plug in the 12 pin and cpu power and test if it works in the case

[barren junco]

yeah it’s bigger than i thought

[idle nexus]

there is so much space in the back of this thing wow

[idle nexus]

good idea imo

& the 24-pin I'm sure you know lol

[velvet summit]

Scrape the edge on concrete and

[idle nexus]

lol why didn't you get the rose gold version?

[idle nexus]

I can't throw stones tbh

my View300 hasn't had a side panel in almost 2 years now

[velvet summit]

💀

[barren junco]

the rose gold better than the red

and my keyboard pink

i think i made the wrong choice

[idle nexus]

lol on which part?

[misty sparrow]

I always wondered if you could take the included heatsink off of an SSD and place it back onto another in case you ever needed it again

[idle nexus]

I took the one off my WDSN850

it was kinda scary ngl

it's kinda like taking the heatspreaders off DRAM

[misty sparrow]

there's thermal pads in the heatsink?

[idle nexus]

like you know you shouldn't be doing it cuz of how hard it fights you

it's more like thermal double-sided tape

[barren junco]

YESSS

[idle nexus]

you know what's great for getting them off? Pokemon cards lol

[idle nexus]

lol after the last like 2-3 hours, I'm almost as proud of it as I'm sure you are ngl

[barren junco]

i’m gonna cry

there’s some leftover cables and stuff

the cooler didnt turn on though

[idle nexus]

lol nah don't worry you're almost there

[barren junco]

these are the ones connected to the cooler where do i plug them

[idle nexus]

okay the one on the far left goes on an argb header on the motherboard

the one in the middle goes on a fan header on the motherboard

ideally, one that's named AIO or Waterpump

let me check one second

[barren junco]

okay

[gleaming rivet]

I think one named CPU would be fine as well?

[idle nexus]

ya that's true

[misty sparrow]

good to know

[idle nexus]

usually AIO pumps run 100% all the time no?

[misty sparrow]

wonder if included heatsinks are specifically designed for that model of SSD, so they can't be placed onto another

[idle nexus]

that's pump or you could use

[idle nexus]

I think they are. The WD one seemed like it

oh I forgot I took one off a Viper drive I had too

[misty sparrow]

I was going to take the 2TB SSD out of my PS5, take the heatsink off of that, place the heatsink on my PC's SSD and put that one into the PS5

essentially swapping drives but more complicated because of the heatsink

[barren junco]

i put it on the side one

[idle nexus]

this is probably easiest to get to but whichever

[barren junco]

system fan pump

[idle nexus]

or that ya

[barren junco]

which one is more effective

[idle nexus]

for the one on the far left, do you have space on any of these three?

[idle nexus]

tbh I'd do CPU or CPU_OPT

[barren junco]

the 3 hole one?

[idle nexus]

cuz some motherboards start crying if they don't detect a fan on CPU or CPU_OPT

they're like omg I won't POST cuz CPU has no cooling

[storm narwhal]

Warning! No CPU Fan detected

[idle nexus]

you can set it to ignore the warning in BIOS but, well, some find BIOS to be a dark scary place

I spent a lot of time there but I understand it's not for everyone

on a related note, you will have to go there to enable XMP on your RAM but one thing at a time

[barren junco]

i put it on the top “ CPU OPT”

[idle nexus]

that works

what does the third connection look like?

kinda unclear from the picture

is that just another 3-pin argb if you want to daisy chain something to it? (i.e., get rgb lights going without connecting directly to the motherboard)

this board is a little strange cuz the reset button header is apparently here instead of with the front panel connections?

[barren junco]

there’s two now

[thick ember]

How do u delete these 2 infected files?

[hoary zodiac]

What is that software lmao

[storm narwhal]

It should give you the option to do that

[hoary zodiac]

Is that a windows utility?

[storm narwhal]

Yeah I member it is

[hoary zodiac]

hmm

[opaque sedge]

Deez nuts were malicious

[storm narwhal]

Though you'd probably be better using malwarebytes

[storm narwhal]

You are not trying sir and I feel like this is all a joke to you!

(It is)

[hoary zodiac]

Joke on deez nuts

[opaque sedge]

Wanna know how serious i am?

[storm narwhal]

NOOO

[opaque sedge]

https://tenor.com/view/keyandpeele-jordanpeele-keeganmichaelkey-deez-deeznuts-gif-16362494513112045252

That serious

[misty sparrow]

https://tenor.com/view/joker-why-so-serious-serious-gif-11972349

[storm narwhal]

https://tenor.com/view/helldivers-gif-13746396505480870613

[hoary zodiac]

https://tenor.com/view/live-jonkler-reaction-joker-batman-arkham-man-gif-17809721599016283530

[misty sparrow]

https://tenor.com/view/dark-knight-joker-its-not-about-the-money-its-about-sending-a-message-gif-15254722

[opaque sedge]

Sending deez nuts

To yo chin

[thick ember]

i tried Win + R then MRT

[wraith fern]

hey congrats

@idle nexus what was the issue

[thick ember]

do u have a link?

[barren junco]

🙏🙏

[thick ember]

i have major trust issues looking it up

[barren junco]

just gotta figure out where these little cables go

[idle nexus]

found it lol

[velvet summit]

oh damn you figured out the issue
what was the issue lmao

[idle nexus]

still not sure lol

[wraith fern]

my guess it was some standoff shorting or some cable or ram or gpu wasn't plugged in correctly

[velvet summit]

after all this time i've made a lasagna from scratch and ate it, and also watched a few youtube videos

[wraith fern]

lol

[storm narwhal]

https://www.malwarebytes.com/mwb-download/

[idle nexus]

the left one goes on the motherboard & the one on the right you can safely ignore I believe

[storm narwhal]

Link

[idle nexus]

I blame uh heck what was that thing called

[storm narwhal]

Also not sure why you'd trust a link over search and observation

[thick ember]

thanks

[storm narwhal]

But fair enough

[velvet summit]

rgb?

what part

[storm narwhal]

Bgr

[wraith fern]

rgb? more like cmyk

[velvet summit]

no way the blue green red

[idle nexus]

when I can't explain why a computer doesn't work, my go-to is "contact fretting" lol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fretting

[storm narwhal]

Cymk panel when

[wraith fern]

tomorrow

[storm narwhal]

(I'll just print a picture of my desktop)

[wraith fern]

thanks

email it to me

email a photo of the printed photo of your desktop

[velvet summit]

just corrosion?
kinda doubt it would be fretting for new parts at least lmfao

[storm narwhal]

I'll laminate it too

[wraith fern]

oh thank you

[idle nexus]

lol ngl I really don't know the issue

[wraith fern]

a binder would be nice too

[storm narwhal]

Get a pigeon to fly it there

[wraith fern]

hard cover

[idle nexus]

essentially the entire thing was rebuilt to get here

[hoary zodiac]

Capture it on medium format film

[idle nexus]

other than like remounting fans

[storm narwhal]

Maybe one of those yellow bag things for documents

[velvet summit]

ah, so it's one of those times that you try everything and it doesnt work then you try everything again and it magically works the 2nd time

[storm narwhal]

With the little cloth loop

[velvet summit]

in other words, it was haunted

[wraith fern]

and an express stamp

for the pigeon

[storm narwhal]

More stamps give it more speed

[hoary zodiac]

https://tenor.com/view/duck-hunt-video-game-nintendo-gif-4720683

[wraith fern]

yeah exactly

[idle nexus]

but this isn't complete nonsense because contact fretting explains why sometimes reseating your RAM fixes computer issues

[storm narwhal]

That's how it worked back then

[wraith fern]

i should probably reseat my ram

[hoary zodiac]

Oh my god stamps were a thing

[storm narwhal]

500 stickers for expedited air delivery

[wraith fern]

my whole pc needs a deep clean

[velvet summit]

me typing in my password and it says incorrect password, then i type it again and it fails again, and i type it again a 3rd time slowly but it fails again

[wraith fern]

so this happened to me with peacock recently

i put in 20 passwords and none of them were right

then i refresh the page and it logs me in

[velvet summit]

ong

[wraith fern]

so one of them was right

[velvet summit]

LMFAO

[wraith fern]

it just said it was wrong

pissed me off because i was really confused

[velvet summit]

that's actually hilarious

[hoary zodiac]

I wonder if gen z/alpha are gonna look at an envelope and stamps and wonder "what the hell is this"

[velvet summit]

and you still have no clue which password was the correct one

💀

[storm narwhal]

WHICH ONE IS RIGHT THEN WEBSITE

[idle nexus]

might be worth a try I think

[hoary zodiac]

sudo rm -rf /

[idle nexus]

lol they have no idea how to write a check

[wraith fern]

.delete system32 (?)

i dont even need it

[storm narwhal]

Envelopes and mail aren't skibidi Ohio

[wraith fern]

systen 32 is for the weak

[idle nexus]

no rizz ya

[storm narwhal]

They do not give rizz

[idle nexus]

lmao

[wraith fern]

on gyatt (livvy dunne)?

[storm narwhal]

You right

[misty sparrow]

just go to a museum, see a book, and then proceed to tap on the pages

[proud jackal]

[hoary zodiac]

Delete your efi partition it slows down your pc

[thick ember]

wtf?

[thick ember]

i have 9 detections

[barren junco]

is my gpu supposed to be slanted like that

[wraith fern]

dawg

[storm narwhal]

Interesting

[idle nexus]

lol I saw a thing where one of them found a floppy disk & was like, "lol someone made a bigger version of the save button"

[wraith fern]

how are you getting 9 threats

[thick ember]

what are those

[storm narwhal]

Did you activate windows

[misty sparrow]

On Windows 11, press Ctrl + Win + Alt + Shift + L, it will help you with your life

[wraith fern]

ive been to a ton of weird sites and i have gotten 1 in total

[storm narwhal]

Without paying

[wraith fern]

things you should delete

[hoary zodiac]

What have you been downloading

[wraith fern]

thats what it's looking like to me

or at least some shady site

[hoary zodiac]

I haven't gotten a virus in like 10 years

[storm narwhal]

Shady site 100%

[idle nexus]

ya'll need to learn the great art of running a ubuntu virtual machine so all this crap can't happen

[thick ember]

r u sure

ones in System32

[storm narwhal]

Maybe just remove all of that

[hoary zodiac]

Yeah delete system32

[wraith fern]

well its stuff i need on the main machine

[opaque sedge]

Deez nuts can change that

[idle nexus]

how's it look from the front?

[opaque sedge]

Wait

[thick ember]

i may brick my pc

[misty sparrow]

the "homework" folder at the bottom right of the desktop

[velvet summit]

you're cooked

[storm narwhal]

Malwarebytes hasn't bricked a PC as far as I've known

[thick ember]

no like if i deleted this

[thick ember]

why tho

[storm narwhal]

Yeah

[wraith fern]

dude

[velvet summit]

i would just reinstall windows at this point

[wraith fern]

its labeled riskware

[storm narwhal]

Its not an automatic death sentence

[velvet summit]

virus removal is a pain

[wraith fern]

????

[idle nexus]

virus removal is pretty not fun

[hoary zodiac]

As with all things with oses

Reinstalling is easier

Unless it's gentoo

[idle nexus]

actually I'm scared to think about how long it's been since I had to remove a virus ngl

[thick ember]

uhh r u telling me that the virus stucked itself in system32?

[barren junco]

it’s straight but the far right is lifted like that

[storm narwhal]

Malwarebytes is pretty much one of the best ways to remove

[thick ember]

?

[wraith fern]

i just dont get viruses

🥱

i mean ive gotten a few trojans and a few things

but never have them activated

[storm narwhal]

I give my PC the shot every week

[opaque sedge]

Damn viruses sound scary ngl