My Custom built PC works again! happy

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I just had to express my excitement. I was chatting with pixel about what could be wrong with my pc, but it’s all my fault! I had purchased the right replacement item, but had stuck the connectors into the wrong sockets! AGAIN! gah! When I built it, I did the same thing, luckily I had a good motherboard that switched itself off before the cpu short circuited.

It’s so beautiful, all my files were there, all my pics and videos of cats!

I replaced the memory, but in the end it was either the power supply or the CMOS battery in the motherboard. The power supply was like 40 bucks, but the battery cost under 2 dollars, so all in all, it was a cheap repair.
My friend came over on the weekend and took a look. I had ripped out all the connectors, so he just plugged it in and boom power ! I was like omg you saved me 70 dollars! Feeling grateful but dumb for misconnecting the connections

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here’s a pic a took a while back, beautiful modern case, solid state drive, 1 TB SATA drive, gigabyte motherboard, intel i5, blu ray drive, like 8 GB of ram…water cpu cooler, and a terrible graphics card that I only bought because I ran out of money by the end of the build. :frowning: Sorry about the internal mess, I played around with it and lost the little case for the ssd and by this time , I was ripping out pieces in desperation lol

I’m upgrading the graphics card soon, though. My friend who connected it had built a new pc and had a decent, better graphics card from his previous build, he’s going to give it to me. :smiley: :smiley:

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You did well @HQuinn

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My beast has a decent i5 and 16GB of ram, but a old hard disk from my old pc, so you probably beat me on game load etc.

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Nice rig 151515

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You are awesome you build your pc by yourself

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yes, it was scary at first, putting the central processing unit into the motherboard by myself (it’s so delicate, and no refunds!), but I’m proud that I tried my best!

This is the video I watched to figure out how to pick pieces and build it:

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