I know I made a mistake, but damned, the instructions with the components these days are very lacking.
The new power supply on my new pc build is different than the last ps I used five years ago. The old ps had all of the wires coming from the ps. All you had to do was plug them in to the right places in the motherboard [mb].
The new ps only has two groups of wires coming from it. One cpu with two 4 pin connectors, and the main mb connector. All of the other PC's I've built only had one 4 pin cpu slot.
The problem is that on the back of the ps box [which is painted black there are sockets for you to plug in everything else separate. Once in the case I didn't see the 8pinPCI-E sockets. However, there was the open 8 pin slot on the mb, which is where I plugged the graphics card.
Well, the pc did boot up to bios on the monitor, where I tried to install my old win 7 disc [to be later upgraded to win 10]. I had issues with the installation of win 7 freezing so after trying everything I decided to look inside the pc to see if everything was okay there.
That is when I saw the pci-e slots in the back of the ps. I unplugged the graphics card pci-e cable from the mb, then into the pci-e slots in the back of the ps. Next, I plugged the extra 4 pin cpu cable into the 8pin slot on the motherboard.
Now the cpu will turn on, and everything lights up, and the dvd drive works, but I can't get anything to appear on the monitor.
So what exactly did I fry? I'm guessing it was the graphics card.
The new power supply on my new pc build is different than the last ps I used five years ago. The old ps had all of the wires coming from the ps. All you had to do was plug them in to the right places in the motherboard [mb].
The new ps only has two groups of wires coming from it. One cpu with two 4 pin connectors, and the main mb connector. All of the other PC's I've built only had one 4 pin cpu slot.
The problem is that on the back of the ps box [which is painted black there are sockets for you to plug in everything else separate. Once in the case I didn't see the 8pinPCI-E sockets. However, there was the open 8 pin slot on the mb, which is where I plugged the graphics card.
Well, the pc did boot up to bios on the monitor, where I tried to install my old win 7 disc [to be later upgraded to win 10]. I had issues with the installation of win 7 freezing so after trying everything I decided to look inside the pc to see if everything was okay there.
That is when I saw the pci-e slots in the back of the ps. I unplugged the graphics card pci-e cable from the mb, then into the pci-e slots in the back of the ps. Next, I plugged the extra 4 pin cpu cable into the 8pin slot on the motherboard.
Now the cpu will turn on, and everything lights up, and the dvd drive works, but I can't get anything to appear on the monitor.
So what exactly did I fry? I'm guessing it was the graphics card.