I got all my parts and started to put things together. Unfortunately, things didn't go as smoothly as I would have liked, especially in the beginning.
First, I had trouble with getting the heatsink put on. The trouble was, It took a lot more pressure than I was comfortable giving to get it to snap in. Is this normal?
Second, was the I/O faceplate. It had these little arm things that made it hard to get everything to go through it like it should. So, in the end, I just ended up bending the "arms" out of the way.
Third, I had trouble figuring out where some stuff went. Fortunately, as I put more stuff in, stuff started to make sense and it went smoothly, for the most part.
Fourth is my cable management. It sucks, and I can't figure out how I can get the wires to be any less cluttering.
Fifth is that when I got everything (I thought so anyways) put in and connected correctly, it wouldn't start. The mobo got power, but nothing happened when I hit the power button. No fans started, nothing came up on the screen. Just the LED on the mobo lit up
So, now I'm taking a break for dinner. Can anyone help me out by telling me what I might have done wrong? Could I have damaged something? Did I just plug something in wrong?
There are a couple of things I left unplugged, though. There is an eight prong (4 ontop of 4) thing coming out of my PSU. I have a modular PSU, and this cord is permanently attached.coming from the inside of the PSU, so I assume it is important. Can anyone tell me where that goes? I can get a picture if need be. Also, do I just take one of the SATA cords I got and use that to plug in the dvd drive? Where do I plug it into? One of the SATA ports? All I have left are the 6gb/s cords.
First, I had trouble with getting the heatsink put on. The trouble was, It took a lot more pressure than I was comfortable giving to get it to snap in. Is this normal?
Second, was the I/O faceplate. It had these little arm things that made it hard to get everything to go through it like it should. So, in the end, I just ended up bending the "arms" out of the way.
Third, I had trouble figuring out where some stuff went. Fortunately, as I put more stuff in, stuff started to make sense and it went smoothly, for the most part.
Fourth is my cable management. It sucks, and I can't figure out how I can get the wires to be any less cluttering.
Fifth is that when I got everything (I thought so anyways) put in and connected correctly, it wouldn't start. The mobo got power, but nothing happened when I hit the power button. No fans started, nothing came up on the screen. Just the LED on the mobo lit up
So, now I'm taking a break for dinner. Can anyone help me out by telling me what I might have done wrong? Could I have damaged something? Did I just plug something in wrong?
There are a couple of things I left unplugged, though. There is an eight prong (4 ontop of 4) thing coming out of my PSU. I have a modular PSU, and this cord is permanently attached.coming from the inside of the PSU, so I assume it is important. Can anyone tell me where that goes? I can get a picture if need be. Also, do I just take one of the SATA cords I got and use that to plug in the dvd drive? Where do I plug it into? One of the SATA ports? All I have left are the 6gb/s cords.