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pantherx12 · Jul 20, 2012

Black Panther said:
OP updated with new pics of the graphics card It arrived today.

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About the cooler, I'll see whether I can install it the way mjkmike had it running for over a year. The husband got the gist of the push-pins immediately (unlike me), so I'll just put the TIM, align the pins, and hold everything steady for him to push them correctly. Probably I'll try with the mobo out of the box. It isn't a big deal to remove it because I'll be leaving all the wiring in place. Wish me luck...

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Now I've got everything. I got the TIM paste from the summer place, I bought the SSD adapter, and got the video card.
The only item missing is.. myself! Everything's waiting to be assembled at home, but I won't be there before Monday!

The most important thing when installing push pins is to support the back of the board with your hand or something to stop it bowing.

Although sometimes the pins go right in other times they are incredibly hard to get in and require a lot of pressure.

Black Panther · Jul 23, 2012

OP updated with new developments (more photos and a video).
Basically I powered it up and it POSTed

But then I pressed the button to open the ODD to insert the Win 7 diskette, and nothing happened... :ohwell:

I thought perhaps the white bezel wasn't making good contact, so I removed it and tried again pushing the tray button directly.
Still no go.

I checked, the power cable is well inserted. The green bulb lights up as you can see below. I tried other connections, both sata and power. Still nothing.
The ODD is a Sony BWU-500S-WW Blu ray writer.

No sound is heard. The green light goes on and off. The tray never comes out. :confused:

Have I gotten a fubared ODD?

pantherx12 · Jul 23, 2012

It sounds like it wants to open.

It could just need a bit of persuasion ( my friend has an ODD that requires a fonz type EHHHHH and smack to open)

Fatal1ty39 · Jul 23, 2012

try to open it manually there should be a small hole use a paper clip then you can try to insert your win7 dvd and see if it reads it.

de.das.dude · Jul 23, 2012

Black Panther said:
OP updated with new developments (more photos and a video).
Basically I powered it up and it POSTed

But then I pressed the button to open the ODD to insert the Win 7 diskette, and nothing happened...

I thought perhaps the white bezel wasn't making good contact, so I removed it and tried again pushing the tray button directly.
Still no go.

I checked, the power cable is well inserted. The green bulb lights up as you can see below. I tried other connections, both sata and power. Still nothing.
The ODD is a Sony BWU-500S-WW Blu ray writer.

No sound is heard. The green light goes on and off. The tray never comes out.
Have I gotten a fubared ODD?

that ODD is a gonner. its stayed too long in the shops and it has jammed up. try using the pin hole. stick a safety pin in it. it shud open. up. then manually pull it out.

this happened to my LG combo drive. it was laying around cuz i had a DVD drive. i tried to make it work, it wudnt move. lights would go on and off though.

i had to take it apart and clean the spiral actuator thingy. and some other stuff, and even after that it failed to open sometimes.

Black Panther · Jul 23, 2012

Fatal1ty39 said:
try to open it manually there should be a small hole use a paper clip then you can try to insert your win7 dvd and see if it reads it.

de.das.dude said:
that ODD is a gonner. its stayed too long in the shops and it has jammed up. try using the pin hole. stick a safety pin in it. it shud open. up. then manually pull it out.

this happened to my LG combo drive. it was laying around cuz i had a DVD drive. i tried to make it work, it wudnt move. lights would go on and off though.

i had to take it apart and clean the spiral actuator thingy. and some other stuff, and even after that it failed to open sometimes.

I'll try that to see if it works. But if I have to do it everytime, then it goes RMA... :ohwell:

phanbuey · Jul 23, 2012

really sweet case!

Random Murderer · Jul 23, 2012

wow, it looks so small in that case :laugh:

de.das.dude · Jul 24, 2012

Black Panther said:
I'll try that to see if it works. But if I have to do it everytime, then it goes RMA...

before u put the pin in, disconnect the power to the ODD.
forgot to mention that!

m1dg3t · Jul 24, 2012

Bummer about the ROM drive, i lost 1 similarly earlier this year. It seems like they can give up the ghost anytime they feel? My drive was low use/HRS and decided to go on permanent holiday after replacing the CPU & PSU :ohwell:

At least you still have warranty

Sometimes the drives get stuck as mentioned, hopefully you get it to open and can cycle it freely. If not i would look into RMA.

Build is looking great! Glad you got the cooler on there without much stress :rockout:

pantherx12 · Jul 24, 2012

de.das.dude said:
before u put the pin in, disconnect the power to the ODD.
forgot to mention that!

I've never bothered, any reason as to why?

m1dg3t · Jul 24, 2012

pantherx12 said:
I've never bothered, any reason as to why?

Sticking metallic objects in devices with 120v/220v can be hazardous

pantherx12 · Jul 24, 2012

m1dg3t said:
Sticking metallic objects in devices with 120v/220v can be hazardous

Well I don't do it when the system is on :laugh:

m1dg3t · Jul 24, 2012

It's ALWAYS good practice to remove the power source when servicing ANY electrical component

pantherx12 · Jul 24, 2012

m1dg3t said:
It's ALWAYS good practice to remove the power source when servicing ANY electrical component

I like to leave the cable in but have the power switch off.

That way I've a heavy gauge wire grounding everything :toast:

( Only applicable in countries with an earthing pin on the plug)

de.das.dude · Jul 24, 2012

m1dg3t said:
It's ALWAYS good practice to remove the power source when servicing ANY electrical component

^this

pantherx12 said:
I like to leave the cable in but have the power switch off.

That way I've a heavy gauge wire grounding everything ( Only applicable in countries with an earthing pin on the plug)

same thing pretty much

you see there is a locking mechanism which locks tray in place once closed. that why u cant open a tray with hands when its closed, even if you have good access to the tray.

the lock is managed by motors and software (i think). when u put the pin in u are manually mechanically overriding that lock. if the motor had power it might want to lock it up again. thats why, its good to disengage the power.

Random Murderer · Jul 24, 2012

de.das.dude said:
the lock is managed by motors and software (i think). when u put the pin in u are manually mechanically overriding that lock. if the motor had power it might want to lock it up again. thats why, its good to disengage the power.

I do it with the pc running. When the lock disengages, it automatically opens the tray.
And it's not just my current ODD that does it, my last 5 or 6 have.

Black Panther · Jul 24, 2012

OK guys this is embarrassing

I thought to try the BD with a separate modular cable directly from the PSU. When I removed the sata cable, the power cable just... dropped out... :wtf:

I put the other modular cable, and heard a click I hadn't heard before...

Long story short, I needed to press the power cable inside the drive quite a bit harder. :laugh:

It works fine now. I installed windows, motherboard drivers and graphics driver.

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Now it just won't get online.

I had a similar problem recently with the previous rig.
My ISP had upgraded my connection to 20Mbps but mine was still 8Mbps. So I disconnected the router and tried to check it out with a direct wired connection but couldn't get online. Then when I reconnected the router I couldn't get online either :wtf:

But after a couple of restarts the wired router connection worked.

Now this time it just won't.
I'm using wired all the time, no wifi. Either wire directly from phone socket to modem to pc, or wired from phone socket to modem to router to pc.

Troubleshooting first tells me to power off modem and router and power them on again.
No luck, and it says I have a broken cable now. :rolleyes:

If I persist, the troubleshooter says my modem can't connect to the net. :ohwell:

I couldn't check much because both laptops aren't at home.

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OP updated with new pictures! I put the bengal tiger decal on the side of the pc.

I have the i7 sticker and the zotac one, but I can't decide where to put them, whether on the front or on the windowed side...

brandonwh64 · Jul 24, 2012

have you tried going into the wireless routers default gateway and resetting the WAN IP?

Black Panther · Jul 24, 2012

brandonwh64 said:
have you tried going into the wireless routers default gateway and resetting the WAN IP?

I'm a real dufus when it comes to networking. :eek:

But how does that explain getting no connection even without router but just modem and pc?

Apparently it's easier to get a wifi card and input username and password

I always managed to connect with any laptop before. But this time I tried with my cellphone and my connection's name was "default" instead of "blackpanther" :confused:

I'll be getting the laptop at home tomorrow, so troubleshooting would be better since I'd have a pc which can connect. Hopefully.

Chicken Patty · Jul 24, 2012

Tried leaving the modem off for a bit? Pull power cord and just leave it off ten minutes or something? That sometimes works for me when I have any Internet issue.

Black Panther · Jul 24, 2012

Chicken Patty said:
Tried leaving the modem off for a bit? Pull power cord and just leave it off ten minutes or something? That sometimes works for me when I have any Internet issue.

Basically that's all I did (during the entire afternoon!). Trying modem only, leaving it off, powering it on, shutting down pc, restarting it, changing the cables...
Then doing the same thing but with the router in place...

I didn't change any wan's, gateways, .... two's, driveways... :ohwell:

(but that's the extent of my networking knowledge :eek:

)

I just thought that if everything had been working before, it wouldn't make a difference if I swapped one pc for another one. After all, wifi always worked. But apparently today no (unless something coincidentally happened being my ISP's fault) since I couldn't access the internet not even from my cellphone.

I'll wait till tomorrow when I can get a laptop in the place to cross-check. Thanks everybody so far

t_ski · Jul 24, 2012

basic troubleshooting for network:

1. open a command window and type "ipconfig /all"
2. record the ip address of the network card and your gateway (usually 192.168.1.1)
3. in the same command window ping the loopback address (127.0.0.1 - checks the networking ability of the system before the NIC). If this works, go to the next step.
4. in the same command window ping the ip address of the network card (checks the networking ability of the NIC). If this works, go to the next step.
5. in the same command window ping the gateway address (again, usually 192.168.1.1 - checks the network from the PC to the gateway). If this works, go to the next step.
6. in the same command window ping the address 74.125.225.72 (this is an address for google.com - checks the network from the PC oout to the internet). If this works, go to the next step.
7. in the same command window ping google.com (checks DNS).

If this stops anywhere in the process, that's where your issue lies, and you can start troubleshooting at that point.

Crap Daddy · Jul 24, 2012

Black Panther said:
Basically that's all I did (during the entire afternoon!). Trying modem only, leaving it off, powering it on, shutting down pc, restarting it, changing the cables...
Then doing the same thing but with the router in place...

If you haven't done it yet, powering off might not be enough, you have to reset it by taking the power plug out and leaving it a bit like that (the modem)

Random Murderer · Jul 24, 2012

Black Panther said:
I always managed to connect with any laptop before. But this time I tried with my cellphone and my connection's name was "default" instead of "blackpanther"

That alone tells me that your router settings have been reset to factory. Can you connect to the router itself using a wired connection? if so, you need to log in to the admin page for your router and tinker with the settings.

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