Recent content by philzilla

UPDATE: It was a faulty PSU that was the problem. Just an unlucky fluke. After checking all of the connections, everything seemed fine. So we went to Best Buy, bought a new power supply, swapped out the old one and it powered on instantly. Thank you for all the advice and ideas!

Thank you for your reply! If all the connections and seatings check out okay, what would you recommend doing next? A short sounds scary. Does that mean a part could be potentially ruined? There was a second gen USB cable that the motherboard didn't support so we had to leave that loose. I'm...

Hi, thanks for letting me ask this question. So last night I helped a friend build his first PC. This was my second time building a PC. All the parts were brand new. Everything was going fairly well. We had some trouble figuring out how to connect the GPU to the power supply but we finally...