How i set my PC on FIRE and somehow fixed it
OK, WOW. the past 24 hours have been a ROLLER COASTER. Time to explain in some detail as to what exactly happened.
First off, I got my new parts I needed, and followed the instructions accordingly to get everything hooked up and ready to go. And you know when you get everything hooked up EXACTLY like how you're supposed to have it hooked up, and it STILL fucks up? yeah, my pc would just turn on for a second, then then immediately cut off. Which indicated there was something wrong with the power supply. So far I had been working on this for about an hour, and it took me 3 hours to figure out what the issue was.
THIS is where I pulled a stupid. I touched the little red switch on the back of the pc where the power supply is. I recommend you NEVER EVER EVER do this. Because I surged 230V of electricity into my PC. The good news is. The PC turned on! The bad news is IT FUCKING WENT UP IN FLAMES ON MY LAP (I have horrible work ethics I know) BUT YEAH. I WAS ON FIRE. MY PC WAS ON FIRE. Not for long though because I immediately shut off the power and disconnected everything. I was lucky the fire went out as a result. I left the computer to cool off for about an hour. I came back to check the damage... and this is where I got INSANELY lucky. No damage to anything, except one wire I don't use from the power supply which was burned to a crisp. I plug everything back in and MOST IMPORTANTLY switched it back to 115V, and wouldn't you know, the damn thing works again. Like, I should NOT have been this lucky, because i am serious when I say there was FIRE coming out of the damn thing, if anything I'm lucky the computer didn't go off like a bomb because that's how dangerous the red switch is.
THIS is where the luck stops though. Now I have to install the operating system. I do NOT have a CD/DVD drive... just a usb external. I try to boot the Installation dvd from the external, annnnnnnnnnd nothing. Btw it took me about 4 more hours to get the Windows 7 installation to download. I've been fiddling with the computer for a total of 7 hours at this point. About an hour after that failure, I go downstairs and borrow my mother's pc and rip out her internal Cd/DVD drive and install it into my rig, and use that. AND STILL NOTHING. So this means, that either somethings wrong with the new mother board, or the freakin disc I was using. I keep trying a million different things till about 4 o'clock that night. a grand total of 15 hours Spent.
The next day (or today really) my best friend who I shall call Gelgoog for now (he's a major Mobile Suit gundam fan, or just anything mecha really) comes over and asserts the situation. Pretty much laughed in my face when I told him the fire thing, and in about 2 minutes he fixed everything. Keep in mind I'm NOT terrible with computers, I knew what I was doing when I put it together and learned my stuff from him, it's just things were really not going my way yesterday. And now here I am. After a grand total of about 17 hours of work, a fire hazard and lost sanity, my new computer is up and running.
I will be running tests to make sure my art programs can run again but expect me to back to my schedule asap!
Thanks for reading and have a great night~!
First off, I got my new parts I needed, and followed the instructions accordingly to get everything hooked up and ready to go. And you know when you get everything hooked up EXACTLY like how you're supposed to have it hooked up, and it STILL fucks up? yeah, my pc would just turn on for a second, then then immediately cut off. Which indicated there was something wrong with the power supply. So far I had been working on this for about an hour, and it took me 3 hours to figure out what the issue was.
THIS is where I pulled a stupid. I touched the little red switch on the back of the pc where the power supply is. I recommend you NEVER EVER EVER do this. Because I surged 230V of electricity into my PC. The good news is. The PC turned on! The bad news is IT FUCKING WENT UP IN FLAMES ON MY LAP (I have horrible work ethics I know) BUT YEAH. I WAS ON FIRE. MY PC WAS ON FIRE. Not for long though because I immediately shut off the power and disconnected everything. I was lucky the fire went out as a result. I left the computer to cool off for about an hour. I came back to check the damage... and this is where I got INSANELY lucky. No damage to anything, except one wire I don't use from the power supply which was burned to a crisp. I plug everything back in and MOST IMPORTANTLY switched it back to 115V, and wouldn't you know, the damn thing works again. Like, I should NOT have been this lucky, because i am serious when I say there was FIRE coming out of the damn thing, if anything I'm lucky the computer didn't go off like a bomb because that's how dangerous the red switch is.
THIS is where the luck stops though. Now I have to install the operating system. I do NOT have a CD/DVD drive... just a usb external. I try to boot the Installation dvd from the external, annnnnnnnnnd nothing. Btw it took me about 4 more hours to get the Windows 7 installation to download. I've been fiddling with the computer for a total of 7 hours at this point. About an hour after that failure, I go downstairs and borrow my mother's pc and rip out her internal Cd/DVD drive and install it into my rig, and use that. AND STILL NOTHING. So this means, that either somethings wrong with the new mother board, or the freakin disc I was using. I keep trying a million different things till about 4 o'clock that night. a grand total of 15 hours Spent.
The next day (or today really) my best friend who I shall call Gelgoog for now (he's a major Mobile Suit gundam fan, or just anything mecha really) comes over and asserts the situation. Pretty much laughed in my face when I told him the fire thing, and in about 2 minutes he fixed everything. Keep in mind I'm NOT terrible with computers, I knew what I was doing when I put it together and learned my stuff from him, it's just things were really not going my way yesterday. And now here I am. After a grand total of about 17 hours of work, a fire hazard and lost sanity, my new computer is up and running.
I will be running tests to make sure my art programs can run again but expect me to back to my schedule asap!
Thanks for reading and have a great night~!