Built New PC Today - Then broke it?

Hey, I built my new PC today and everything was working fine, Installed Windows and that, Realised I was missing a connector on my sound card the power for the I/O drive, connected that up to a molex and switched on.

Massive whistling high pitched noise, not sure where coming from switched it off instantly, I realised I had only covered 1 lot of PATA pins and not the other, I put it the right away round and still I get sound, I took the I/O drive out, still get sound.

X fi Platinum Champion Series, I havent took the full sound card out yet and tried it, but what do you think has happened? NO smoke or nothing like that, no burning smell?

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ATLANT3AN

A picture is worth a thousand words...

are you reffering to the 4 pin power plug that is on the back of the Platinum's 5.25" bay I/O panel? If so, did you only plug in 3 of the pins...if so...not really sure how you accomplished that?... a picutre of it bare, of it plugged in correctly and of it plugged in incorrectly (all while off) would be helpful.

If you put power where power isn't supposed to be, you can seriously damage your components.

no it wasn't the power part that was wrong, it was the PATA ribbon cable that was wrong.

I completely removed it, Still making the sound, Now as my error was in the PATA cable I would of thought the error would be it simply didnt work so perhaps when i added the molex connector to power the I/O. I made a mistake elsewhere? Or what, Please dont say its a motherboard problem O mean surly they protect against simple things like this? Everything is brand new.

Addition

I think the PC would continue to work if I let it, the fans are working it is going through various stages on the CPU poster, but I stop it for fear of damaging it more so.

ATLANT3AN said:

no it wasn't the power part that was wrong, it was the PATA ribbon cable that was wrong.

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so u connected a pata cable to your sound card? ... if so then uv pobs done some damage.

yea...its not a pata connection...I'm assuming you're just using the wrong terminology...thats why I asked for pictures they'll really help to clarify things.

Not sure what else they are called, I mean its the power for the I/O drive a connector that goes to two ends one being a molex, So I connected the to a molex from the PSU giving it power, and it was the PATA link, the large ribbon cable that I made the mistake on.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/misc/picture/?src=/images/multimedia/creative-soundblaster-xfi/p6.jpg&1=1
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/multimedia/display/creative-soundblaster-xfi_4.html

The one on the right, the white one, understand?

ATLANT3AN said:

Not sure what else they are called, I mean its the power for the I/O drive a connector that goes to two ends one being a molex, So I connected the to a molex from the PSU giving it power, and it was the PATA link, the large ribbon cable that I made the mistake on.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/misc/picture/?src=/images/multimedia/creative-soundblaster-xfi/p6.jpg&1=1
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/multimedia/display/creative-soundblaster-xfi_4.html

The one on the right, the white one, understand?

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yea...the one on the left is an AD_Ext cable that you should attach to it...technically you can attach a 40pin IDE cable to if no pins are blocked off...The connector on the right is a 4-pin power connector (used on fans and floppy drives). If you plugged the four pin power connector onto the left pins, then you probably fried the board. Not really sure how you wouldn't set the 4-pin power connector proplerly, as they have guide rails that allow only a certain plug orientation.

I figured out the problem, or should I say some great guy did, The graphics card power was slightly out, I must of knocked it when messing with sound card. How this guy knew that was the cause I don't know. Thanks for help anyway .

Great to hear...(pictures would probably have shown that for future refference ).