PC all hooked up- what could ruin it?

[plagiarist]

Back from holiday vacation.. just plugged everything together and am ready to boot it up and install XP and then drivers.

It's an ASUSA A8V deluxe, a 1.8 ghz AMD64, 1 gig of ram in dual channel array of 512mb sticks, Zeltec 90mm fan, an ATI 6600, SB Audigy 2 ZS Platinum, Antec PSU, Samsung SATA 160GB, DVD-rom. thermaltake case with included hardcano 12.

I have had it hooked up without the audigy and the HD or DVD connected, and it didn't blow up, short out, or destroy itself. Now I have everything connected, including the PSU fan cable to the cable on the Mobo for that (what's the third fan plug on the mobo, for an extra case fan?) is there anything I could have done wrong that will destroy anything? I've worked obsessively touching the PSU every time I touched a component, and meticulously avoided handling anything roughly. I'm all ready to turn it on... I'm just scared I might destroy anything from a fifty dollar component to a two hundred dollar one. =/

Yeah, I've never built a system before. I did pretty well considering I had to figure everything out myself.

 

[Hajime]

#1: Check if liquid is on the motherboard
#2: Check if there is anything - i.e. a screw - physically shorting out components that were dropped in accidentally while installing the new parts.

Other then that, you should be good to go if it worked w/out the audigy hd and DVD.

 

[plagiarist]

"#1: Check if liquid is on the motherboard "

You seriously cracked me up. Thanks. That killed a lot of tension.

I'm going to check every single connection one more time, go over the manuals again, check again, and power up.. wish me luck 🙂

 

[imported_NoGodForMe]

If it turned on already then you don't have to worry about blowing anything up.

Just be careful about moving the main powersupply wire. If you tug on it, the wires may come loose inside the connector.