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BizzzIMO

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Ok so if you guys have seen any of my other posts about my GA-X48-DS4, you will be stumped like I was. UNTIL I came to a verry ill realization today... That I was just to excited to have my new gear I pulled a smart one!

So I RMA'd it back to newegg and was thinking of buying a new brand instead, I was sure I did everything right and what not.. So as I look at other boards I see where in a pic it says 8 PIN MB POWER CONNECTOR! but there were only 4 visible pin holes, cause the other 4 ARE covered by a cap!!!

On my board I was plugging a 4 PIN into it when I really needed to remove the plastic cap and plug in the 8pin pc power connector!

I feel like such an idiot and am paying for it by having to wait 2 weeks before I get my new board back!

I could still be wrong here but I think thats what I did wrong why the whole thing wouldnt boot....
 
well if it makes you feel any better, I just have the 4-pin in my P35-DS4 and had no idea I needed to use the 8-pin adaptor. I didn't even look for it. I feel as dumb as a bag of hammers.
 
the rig in my sig was my first build ever... i managed to put everything together without a hitch, except i left the CPU power unplugged... i didn't see anything matching coming out of my PSU, so i figured it was some kind of optional thing... turns out my PSU had a 4+4 pin connector.
 
Sorry to pop your bubble, it still should have worked if you plugged the correct 2x2 connector in.

Dude, if you dont read the fucking manuals, twice, while that board is gone, yes I agree with you.


Really dont intend to sound mean, well just a little. Now that you have the time, look at every connection you are going to have to make and find the associated plug on the power supply. Download the motherboard manual if you had to send it back with the rma. Be aware there are 2 kinds of 8 pin connectors on new power supplies (PCI-e and the EPS 8 pin 12V aux) and if you use enough force you can make one fit where it does not go and blow up your video card or motherboard or both.
 
Now with my case if I could just figure out which wire is posative and negative. They use some weird symbols. One wire is labeled "G" the other is a "triangle". That might be something I did wrong too...

Oh and I know I fudged up pretty bad bill dont need to rub it in... After all this is my first ground up build...
 
With my last build I forgot to use the cardboard washers on the standoffs (because they weren't included with my case) and I kept shorting out my board. Luckily it wasn't damaged. :p
 
BizzzIMO said:
Now with my case if I could just figure out which wire is posative and negative. They use some weird symbols. One wire is labeled "G" the other is a "triangle". That might be something I did wrong too...
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If I'm not mistaken, the G is for ground, leaving the triangle for positive...
 
What really sucks is I did read the manual for 4 days straight before I got the board from newegg, then I had it up on screen on my old PC when I was building it, I dont know how I missed the 8pin but I did, shame on me!

I accidently sent back my MD speaker with the MB, when it came with my case.. Now I dont know if I can pick one up in town or if newegg will send it back to me... Damn little mistakes are killin me here!
 
wait...8 pin connector?


Last time on my p5b deluxe motherboard, there was an 8 pin connector and 4 of the pins were covered with a little cap as well. So I decided to take it off and plugg in the 8 pin connector....however that was a mistake...one of the chips above the CPU started to light on fire and burned a whole in my motherboard...Luckily ASUS still RMAed it for me..

So i just used the ATX 4 pin plug and it worked fine...nowadays we need an 8 pin connector?
 
if i understand correctly, the cap is there so you can run it with just the 4 pin if you dont have an 8....it should have worked fine with the 4
 
In any case I'm sure the 700w Rocketfish from best buy could'nt run the MB anyways... So I bought a new 750w PC Power & Cooling silencer from new egg. I cought them when they were down to 150 and I had a 25$ rebate so it didnt cost much for a good PSU.

hopefully whne the new board comes it all works properly!
 
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So I bought a new 750w PC Power & Cooling silencer from new egg. I cought them when they were down to 150 and I had a 25$ rebate so it didnt cost much for a good PSU.

hopefully whne the new board comes it all works properly!
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Nice...that's the only company I've bought PSU's from for awhile now. Whenever anyone at work complains about something I think is power-related I recommend PC P&C and they don't complain anymore.
 
mystykmax said:
Nice...that's the only company I've bought PSU's from for awhile now. Whenever anyone at work complains about something I think is power-related I recommend PC P&C and they don't complain anymore.
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pc p and c psu are getting a lot cheaper than what they use to be...of coursei tend to not spend more than 100 dollars on a PSU...they are ALOT of great psu out there for less than 100
 
Corsair TX 750 can be had for $95-$105 with no rebates right now. I love my Silencer 750 Quad Black, and I paid a lot more than that for it ~9 months ago, but were I buying a supply right now, the Corsair would be it hands down.
 
i heard the corsair were actually kinda loud....other fellow forum members have been telling people not to get them...
 
stunning said:
i heard the corsair were actually kinda loud....other fellow forum members have been telling people not to get them...
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Are these the same people claiming that the Silencer 750 is loud? Cause it's... not. I'm running water set up for silence not super-high OCs on everything (X3220 quad at 3.6Ghz and two 8800 GTXs in SLI) and I can't hear the PSU fan save when running Prime 95 small FFTs and 3DMark06 at 1920x1200 8x AA 16x AF at the same time... and then only just. The loudest thing by far in my case is the Seagate 7200.10 250GB.
 
I did that with a 780i P5N-T Deluxe and it took me 45 minutes of trouble shooting before I decided to check all power delivery and Bam! Its fixed.:D
 
I get humbled like that frequently.
I kinda like to be reminded I don't know so muckin' fuch as i love to believe i do.
Congratulations on being human!
 
I have put some goodies into the computer and then forgot to plug in the 4-pin connector.

The first time I swapped out a motherboard was around late 1997 I think. I had a Pentium MMX 200MHz cpu, and after getting it all together, the power would not come on. It turned out that the power cord was not plugged into the back of the computer. At least it was something simple.
 
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