Oh NO!

[Hitman]

Originally Posted by polobunny

Yeah, seconded. A bit like those internal USB connectors. More case mamunfacturers are starting to make them standard, personally i've never seen a different layout but even then some cases are separate wires...

Exactly like that. They layouts are starting to be more standard. Older Mobos it was anyones guess which pins go to what. Half the time they weren't even labeled. So it's really the case manufactures that need to come out with a standard plug.

[Jafah5150]

I have two good ones I usually do while repairing/building:
forget to turn the power back on(back of powersupply)
and
I always plugged the floppy drive in backwards.

LOL

[stinger608]

Originally Posted by Jafah5150

I have two good ones I usually do while repairing/building:
forget to turn the power back on(back of powersupply)
and
I always plugged the floppy drive in backwards.

LOL

Yep been there done both of them

[Hitman]

Originally Posted by Jafah5150

I have two good ones I usually do while repairing/building:
forget to turn the power back on(back of powersupply)
and
I always plugged the floppy drive in backwards.

LOL

Yep me too.

One day I built a computer, and kept hitting the switch to turn it on and nothing happened. I tore the whole computer apart and put it back together. Still the same thing happened, nothing. Then I realized I had the front panel off and I had been hitting the reset switch all freaking day.

[stinger608]

Originally Posted by Hitman

Yep me too.

One day I built a computer, and kept hitting the switch to turn it on and nothing happened. I tore the whole computer apart and put it back together. Still the same thing happened, nothing. Then I realized I had the front panel off and I had been hitting the reset switch all freaking day.

thats a classic tale Hitman
I'll bet you felt like an idiot when you figured out what happened!!!

[gvblake22]

Originally Posted by Hitman

Yep me too.

One day I built a computer, and kept hitting the switch to turn it on and nothing happened. I tore the whole computer apart and put it back together. Still the same thing happened, nothing. Then I realized I had the front panel off and I had been hitting the reset switch all freaking day.

HAHA, that's great.
It's always the simplest things that you overlook when you run into problems. That's why it's often so hard to troubleshoot that stuff because you just don't think about something so little and so simple. I was helping a friend fix his old Dell that wouldn't turn on anymore and we replaced the motherboard and it worked, but sometimes it would turn on and other times it wouldn't. Eventually we found out that the power button on the case its self was messed up

[Panda Man]

I always have to go through trial and error on those. Heck, my current manual has the pins labeled wrong (I think its the v1.2 manual for my board, my board is v2). The panel is usually the first thing I check because of this. I start off just trying to find which way the power connector goes, then reset, then the HDD LEDs.

Originally Posted by Hitman

Yeah man that is far from a retard move. That is one area of motherboards I would really like to see revamped. It should be a standard plug and socket. You just plug it in and its the same on every case and every MoBo. Should be a standard across the board. I have no idea why no one has ever though of that before.

That would be difficult to break in, with people just buying new cases for old rigs and vise versa. Is a good idea to play with though.

[stinger608]

Originally Posted by gvblake22

HAHA, that's great.
It's always the simplest things that you overlook when you run into problems. That's why it's often so hard to troubleshoot that stuff because you just don't think about something so little and so simple. I was helping a friend fix his old Dell that wouldn't turn on anymore and we replaced the motherboard and it worked, but sometimes it would turn on and other times it wouldn't. Eventually we found out that the power button on the case its self was messed up

Yep, just had that happen about a week ago with a customer!!! Sometimes it would turn on, and other times it wouldn't! luckily that was one of the first things I checked, (from past experience) and just cleaned it up and sprayed some WD40 on it, and everything was OK!