How do I not blow stuff up while building a PC?

Arkaya01 · Aug 13, 2014

I'm recently trying to build my first pc. I had an experience of blowing up a power supply. I saw a hanging wire from the power supply that had no attachment, so I attached it to a random area in the motherboard and everything blew up. Are there any other things to avoid in order to not blow things up while building pcs?

P.S The computer I blew was old and just for testing.

aldan · Aug 13, 2014

follow all manuals when assembling and plug nothing in while the power is on.its pretty straightforward really.just make sure to read the instructions.and then read them two or three more times.lol

TopLuca · Aug 13, 2014

Just follow this video guide and you'll be fine , best advice is not to try and touch the backplate of the CPU or connect random shit to each other else you should be fine

Guide : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zQXFkzZ1Ac

dariens007 · Aug 13, 2014

wear a anti-static wrist wrap, try not to build your PC over carpet, follow the instructions of the motherboard manual and everything else. watch a video or read several guides on how to build computers.....and just dont randomly plug wires into the motherboard.....

EasyLover · Aug 13, 2014

You have answered the question yourself. Connect only those cables which are meant to be connected to the motherboard and other components and leave the other cables as it is.

Ensure the below mentioned cable connectors options: -

24 pin power cable to the motherboard
4-8 pin power connector to the cpu
6-8 pin power cable to the graphics card
sata cables to the storage/optical drives

EasyLover · Aug 13, 2014

Watch this guide before building for better understanding: -

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPIXAtNGGCw
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_56kyib-Ls
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxaVBsXEiok

Arkaya01 · Aug 13, 2014

EasyLover :

I have 6 case fans, do I plug these into the power supply?
the case fans have 4pin, while the psu has 8pin, do I put 2x 4pins into one 8pin and all is fine?

Chicano · Aug 13, 2014

Your old PSU may have already been damaged because there should not be lose individual wires or single wire connectors. All PSU wires are in multi wire connectors (they have 24 a pin mobo connector, 4 or 8 pin CPU connector, 6 or 8 PCIe connector, 4 pin molex for IDE drives, SATA connectors, floppy conectors), And all PSU wire connectors are keyed such that they only plug in the correct way so you can't "blow stuff" unless you force them on the wrong place, so don't plug them where they won't go in with light effort.

EasyLover · Aug 13, 2014

Arkaya01 :

No, no. Not like that. 3/4 pin connector of fans are plugged into motherboard's fan header. Sometimes these headers are marked as CHA_FAN. Use motherboard's manual to check that. In case these fan headers are not sufficient for six fans then you can molex these fans. For understanding, see the pics below: -

Option 1: Use Y-Splitter cable to connect two or more fans on a single fan header

Option 2: Use molex pwoer connector to connect additional fans directly with PSU

Hopefully, this would have helped.

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