Whos ever built a comp from scratch and had it work first time??

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: SeaSerpent
99% of the time they work fine on start up for me.

Same here.

 

[randumb]

every time

 

[suse920]

My first build did that i got teh skilzz yo

 

[CheesePoofs]

All but this one. Ram apparently wasn't compatible and only would work when running on a divider (any divider, it didn't matter, just oculdnt' be 1:1). And then the power supply died literally 20 seconds before I was about to flash my bios; I had just typed "awdflash /?" to figure out what command to use to flash the bios and it turned off, never to turn on again.

 

[sniperruff]

mine fired right up when i first built it. never a hiccup except i think the mobo is not too happy with torrents using up a lot of memory.

 

[Leper Messiah]

more often than not they boot up fine. Seeing smoke come out though is always a bad thing...

 

[JetBlack69]

Normally most of my problems deal with bad hardware.

1. Bad motherboard. All the problems were gone once it was replaced.
2. Bad Ram. Memtest86 had fun with that.
3. Another bad motherboard, caps were bad.
4. Ram not in correct spot. I read the manual which said put the memory starting from the first slot, but that didn't work. I had to put the memory in the last 2 slots for it to work.

Other than that, smooth sailing.

 

[mobobuff]

3 for 3 so far.