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

[Arkaya01]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

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]

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]

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

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?

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.