Hello everyone-
I attempted to put my computer together for the first time. I had a friend do it for me the last two times. Anyways, I bought
AMD 3500+
MSI K8n Neo2 Platinum motherboard
OCZ PC3200 Platinum Rev. 2 1 gig RAM
Lian Li 1100B Case
Antec NeoPower 480 watt PSU
Swiftech MCX 4600- V heatsink
The Lian Li case already has a pretty confusing layout, so this didn't help. I followed the directions as best I could. I thought I installed everything properly. I was unable to install the Swiftech because the fan I bought would not fit properly onto it, the rivets wouldn't fit in, so I installed the stock heatsink/fan that came with the CPU. I had everything connected...so I tried to turn it on. I pressed the power button...nothing happened at all. I called one of my friends and he walked me through some steps, made sure I had the power button correctly plugged into the motherboard, it appeared that I did. I again tried to turn it on, this time, I had my case open so I could see if anything was happening. Just as I hit the power button, the fans turned maybe 1/2 of rotation, then stopped. I saw a small trail of smoke come out, I couldn't exactly pin point where, but it smelled like burnt electronics. I immediately unplugged the power cord. From my guess, it seemed like the smoke came from the RAM area, not the cpu, but I could be mistaken. Any ideas on what this could be? I took out the RAM and there was no visual damage whatsoever. Tonight I'm gonna have one of my friends take a look at it...but does anyone have any idea as to what I did? Any advice is much appreciated.
Thanks,
Mako
I attempted to put my computer together for the first time. I had a friend do it for me the last two times. Anyways, I bought
AMD 3500+
MSI K8n Neo2 Platinum motherboard
OCZ PC3200 Platinum Rev. 2 1 gig RAM
Lian Li 1100B Case
Antec NeoPower 480 watt PSU
Swiftech MCX 4600- V heatsink
The Lian Li case already has a pretty confusing layout, so this didn't help. I followed the directions as best I could. I thought I installed everything properly. I was unable to install the Swiftech because the fan I bought would not fit properly onto it, the rivets wouldn't fit in, so I installed the stock heatsink/fan that came with the CPU. I had everything connected...so I tried to turn it on. I pressed the power button...nothing happened at all. I called one of my friends and he walked me through some steps, made sure I had the power button correctly plugged into the motherboard, it appeared that I did. I again tried to turn it on, this time, I had my case open so I could see if anything was happening. Just as I hit the power button, the fans turned maybe 1/2 of rotation, then stopped. I saw a small trail of smoke come out, I couldn't exactly pin point where, but it smelled like burnt electronics. I immediately unplugged the power cord. From my guess, it seemed like the smoke came from the RAM area, not the cpu, but I could be mistaken. Any ideas on what this could be? I took out the RAM and there was no visual damage whatsoever. Tonight I'm gonna have one of my friends take a look at it...but does anyone have any idea as to what I did? Any advice is much appreciated.
Thanks,
Mako
