NEED HELP

**moving-target** · 09-07-10, 05:13 PM

so i'm trying to put togther my computer everythings mounted i just cant figure out how to connect the wires if anyone is avalible could hit me up on steam or somethin

**kibner** · 09-07-10, 05:54 PM

The instructions for your motherboard should have everything listed out. Black typically means negative.

For your hard drive and optical drive, there should be two cables each: one to go from your drive to the motherboard, the other from the drive to the power supply.
Your video card MAY require a pci-e power block from your power supply, but I think the 5770 doesn't require that.
The motherboard should require some power from your power supply, as well, but it should be labeled and listed in the motherboard documentation.

A hint to fit the case wires to the mother board (power, reset, speaker, hdd light, etc.) is to have your plug held at an angle until it rests on top of the pins, then straighten it up and go straight down. Don't worry if you struggle fitting those wires in; they are easily the most annoying part of building a computer, IMO.

**HeavyG** · 09-07-10, 08:11 PM

Which cables? The ones from the case to the motherboard (pwsw, hdled, etc.)? Some of them should be obvious, as in SATA drives go to the SATA ports, PSU cables should have the 24 pin connector, plus the 12v connector (dual?). Your video card probably has a 6 or 8 pin connector. Make sure your CPU fan is plugged in to the CPU fan port. Your external USB ports should also be easy to find.

It is pretty self explanatory stuff. You can do it!

**moving-target** · 09-08-10, 12:58 AM

thanks for the repl;ies sorry i missed em but big thanks to bigag and space cowboy for all the help they gave me and another big thanks to big ag kibner who picked out my parts for me and everyone else who contributed

**moving-target** · 09-08-10, 01:29 AM

actually 1 small issue fron mic and headphone jacks dont seem to be working me and ag went over it all cables seem to be in the right place

**Guyver** · 09-08-10, 02:58 AM

You're probably going to have to enable the mic in the device manager. Actually, the check the headphones there too.

**moving-target** · 09-08-10, 10:11 AM

nothing in device manger opend up hdvdeck made headset default and with the volum cranked up to max i still couldnt really hear anything

**iamjohnnyrico** · 09-08-10, 02:03 PM

Are you using a seperate soundcard that you've attached to a PCI slot? If you are, then you need to disable the onboard sound card in the BIOS.

Or are you using the onboard soundcard of the mobo? If you are, then check the BIOS to see if the onboard soundcard is enabled.

**moving-target** · 09-08-10, 02:59 PM

onboard ok odd thing i'm trying this on youtube i put on a song with voice nada small gurgles like break up and if i play an instrumental i can hear it in my right ear phone alone low volume but it plays just fine this sounds like a problem i've read somewhere but not sure

tried looking in the setup didnt know where to look didnt really feel comfortable looking around it blindly dont wanna mess nothin up

to make it work i have to go into via audio deck and make the headphones defualt device and now its working but if i have it set to redirect headphone so if i were to plug/unplug it would kick in but if i have it set that way it wont work

front mic dont work neither nor does back audio/mic jacks so i'm thinking maybe something is connected wrong dunno