Building My Computer

[Beer $lut]

Okay well i got all the parts and this is confusing as hell. Theres so many things i dont know where they go. Too many wires. I need some help.

 

[TweaK]

omg, your so newb :O

Start by putting in the motherboard, if you screw up putting that into the case, you should just quit life.

 

[Beer $lut]

Ive got the motherboard on, the powersupply on, the cd-rom on and harddrive on i think. I just have these wires that were in the case connected to the power button and i have no idea where the **** to put them.

edit: ok i got some of the crap in but than theres others that say vp +, ground and all this shit. Please help.

edt: ok i got it working, but it says its not finding my ide drive or something like that.

 

[OMGLOLWTFPWN]

Those wires are for speakers, power leds, etc. so READ THE MANUAL. If you wire them wrong you could melt them. It happened last year in computer class we smelled burning plastic and someone wired those wrong.

 

[Beer $lut]

No, i got those undercontrol. Now its just this IDE Drive thing. It wont detect it. It says No Drive attached to fasttrak controller the bios is not installed.

 

[-Sh1Ft-]

Maybe you shouldn't go about giving warnings out, and i may have given you a picture walkthrew.

 

[OMGLOLWTFPWN]

Make sure your IDE drives are jumpered correctly, and make sure the red wire (1st) pin is facing PSU.

 

[Beer $lut]

Make sure your IDE drives are jumpered correctly, and make sure the red wire (1st) pin is facing PSU.

Care to elaborate further? I dont know much about this jumper crap. And what do you mean by the red wire pin facing psu?

 

[TweaK]

Maybe you shouldn't go about giving warnings out, and i may have given you a picture walkthrew.

You can get warned again for making stupid ****ing posts like that.

 

[OMGLOLWTFPWN]

ok most IDE cables(at least the older ones I use) (yours is brand new so I wouldn't count on it being the same) have 1 of the many wires they are made up of red while the rest are grey. The red wire is the 1st pin and it faces the PSU. For you you will probably have a notch on one side of the plastic end of the cable and a matching hole in the socket it goes into, so it can only go in one way you probably won't need to worry about it. When using IDE drives more than one can go into the same spot on the motherboard because the IDE cables have 2 ends, for this to work you need to set the little plastic piece into the right pins on the back of the drive. If you only have 1 HDD this shouldn't be a problem, but lots of people use multiple CD/DVD drives so it's best to make sure one is set to master and the other is set to slave. There might be diagrams on the drives themselves to show how to put the plastic piece in for the different settings.