Recent content by sleepy.miki

Because even when the computer worked properly, no matter what I did the RGB fans refused to work. The most I could do was power only one of them on with lights. None of them even spun, and I did have all of the fan cables connected initially that I was supposed to. In the end whether the case...

Well the misconnected cable could have caused the mobo to short couldn't it have? Having power sent to the wrong insertions with the wrong connector? In his case that's what he said happened atleast.

I got a chance to take out everything from the computer, and visually, it appears to be fine from almost every aspect, but I guess that doesn't mean it isn't damaged. The RAM looks good, so does the GPU, but I agree I'm pretty sure at this point it's obvious that the mobo is fried from this. I...

Yeah... that's exactly what I told him when all of this happened. I asked if it could be the cause and he said that there's an extremely low chance that it is, telling me that it's practically impossible. I definitely regret listening to him if this ended up being it.

When I was installing it I couldn't find the standoffs the case was supposed to come with. I asked a friend who is a technician (as this was my first build) and they said it would be fine as it's rarely an issue and that not all cases come with standoffs nowadays. So I screwed it in directly and...

No, I only ever did anything when it was powered off.

so I built a new PC around 1 week ago, it worked fine for a day or so and everything was all good aside from the RGB fans on my new case not working, so I decided to open it up again and try to get the fans to work. The absolute most I could do was get one fan to light up, but none would spin...