Things that do and don't go beep

[featherynscale]

Yesterday, a Mysterious Package arrived in the post. "ThinkGeek" it said on the label, and I went, "eh?". For lo, I am a ThinkGeek shopper, but I was pretty sure everything I'd ordered had already come in. So, there was a rush to open the mysterious package, to find a Polarity game, from someone who I presume to be lexpendragon. Or, at least, I think so. The internet is really, really great (for porn!), but it sometimes leads to situations in which you only know people by their internet names. But thank you, Probably 'Lex, for a very excellent toy. I've not gotten to play with it yet, but J., our houseguest, was doing some quite impressive things with it last night.

Me, last night, I was running about getting the last pieces for triadruid's upgrade. At some point during the contemplation of this process, possibly when J. was mocking me about being excited about the fact that the case came with extra screws, I announced to the household, "I like things that go beep!", at which point kittenpants chimed in with "Beep! I go beep!", and there was much amusement.

The putting together of the new machine was met with the usual disasters. I bled on it, cursed at it, dropped a thumbscrew down the front of the case where it was a pain in the ass to retrieve, looked at some bits of it and went, "What even are you? I don't know what you are or where you go!", and so on and so forth. Finally got the thing together about midnight, then plugged it in, and *pfffft*, it won't turn on. Not like it won't POST, it just won't turn on. No power nowhere in the box itself. Don't know why. Got pissed off, went to bed. Probably, in my sleepy and addled state, I've forgotten to plug something in, or plugged it in backwards, or something. Or, triadruid might have been trying to tell me last night that he hadn't flipped the power switch on the back of the machine. Maybe. I knew he was saying something about the switch, but was too sleepy to tell if he was saying he had flipped it, or hadn't. *shrug* So, I'm going to look at it again tonight, and if I can't manage to make it work, I imagine I'll be crying for help. Can one of you technical creatures back me up here, if needed?

Comments

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

That's what I suspect has happened. I don't see small things well in the best of circumstances, and plugging front panel leads was one of the last things I did, so was pretty tired at that point. I'll be checking those first!

[erusumbros.livejournal.com]

That's what I suspected.

You might also want to check the manual from the Mobo and see if the CMOS is grounded on pins 1&2. Little plastic pin.

Sometimes they come in weird combo's, though I'll put money on the Power Switch leads being wrong. Done that too many times myself.

P.S. Nice to know that you have to bleed when making a PC as well. It seems that everytime I install something new on my computer, or even build a new system I always bleed.

Sacrifice to the good computing gods.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

That set looked good - it came jumpered, and I didn't mess with it.

Also, yeah, the bleeding seems to be a required part of the process. It's important to note, though, that in this case, I was actually bleeding before I even popped the case open. It was sort of like I thought about building a machine, and the thought alone was enough to make me bleed. Techie stigmata. It was a little creepy.

[erusumbros.livejournal.com]

And yet...kinda hot if you're a tech geek.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Kinda, yeah.

My relationship to machinery has always been a little on the kinky side.