To the OP.....Thank you for starting this thread! I myself am in the process of building my very first computer and I have the CS Storm Trooper case as well. Everything I have read , pictures I've looked at and with just some general knowledge .....I think I can get mine together. BUT....since it is my "first time"......that entire front panel wire bundle is the scariest part for me. Pretty sure I can figure out where most will plug in by reading my MB manual and the case manual......but still looks confusing. I'll be using an Asrock Extreme 7 MB in my build. BTW.....glad you got your rig fired up and running.....I'm about a month behind you.
it isnt as hard as it looks though thats one thing ive found, this was my 2nd build and my first high spec build (my old machine which was my first ever self build was an average spec intel core 2 quad, hd 5750 machine) so I was a bit nervy this time around as the cost of breaking one of the components would have been that much higher but I had no probs, the parts are tougher then they seem lol just remember to do the anti static stuff to ensure you dont fry anything I laid all my parts out on some anti static matting and wore the usual anti static wrist strap grounded to a bit of metal by a croc clip.
By far the hardest thing ive found about these builds is the space avalible and the miniscule size of some of the plugs etc(take the front panel connecters and the fan connecters?...how much smaller do they want to make those little 2 pin things haha) I was getting so frustated trying to reach around my components to plug in tiny little plugs sometimes I got the wife involved haha, her of little hands found it a lot easier to reach into the case to plug stuff in for me.
By and large the only major scare I had was after the build, when id got it all setup and I was playing with it, basically I went into the asus mb bios, I was in the ez mode so didnt think anything I could do would really harm the machine, now in ez mode it gives you 3 profiles, normal, eco power saving and performance, I thought being ez mode these must be configured in a way to be non harmful so i tried to boot with the performance setting.......big mistake, something on my board did not like that one bit, next thing I know the machine is running fine but not `posting` or booting and my screen comes up `no connecter plugged in` as if the hdmi connecter was out.
This understandably pissed me off, was I wrong to assume setting presets avalible to `basic` users(I wasnt in the advanced settings) should not affect a machine in such a way?
I was even more pissed off when I opened my case and saw, a.the red cpu led light, b. the red memory led light and c. a red led light on the graphics card, now at this point I was spitting fire as I thought using these `preset` settings had somehow fried my mboard and some of the components attached to it, I tried restoring the bios using the reset cmos jumper (and let me tell you picking up, moving 1 pin over and back again that little 1 pin width rubber cap was the hardest job yet lol) that did nothing.
Then I read about the memory ok button on the asus board, I held that down, it seemed to be trying various configurations as the pc turned off and on a few times, about the third time it came on and stayed on THANK GOD my pc was back again all red led warning lights off and no further issues.
So lesson for the future avoid asus bios pre sets like the plague!
For the record my ram is still running below spec(which was the reason I changed to `performence mode` in the first place, I have 16gb (2 times 8gb dimms) gskill ripjawx 1866mhz memory, however going into the bios I find its only recognized and I assume therefore running as 1333mhz ram, is this a motherboard compatibility issue? Im running it on the Asus P8Z77-V Socket 1155 motherboard, to be honest its not bothering me that much this machine is blazing fast whatever the rams set at and if its going to involve any potentially machine frying changes(had enough of that with the above problem fuck overclocking i cant afford to shell out anymore money if it goes wrong lol) then ill ignore it but is there any fix for this and does anyone have an idea why it would be running this way?
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