Serious question, a weird power supply issue ate up my whole afternoon yesterday.

Riley Nguyen · 2026-03-11T08:05:05.384233+00:00

Had a custom build that would only boot sometimes, spent 4 hours swapping parts before I found a single bent pin on the 24-pin connector. Anyone else run into something like that where the fix was stupid simple but took forever to find?

spencer_perry937mo ago

Ugh, that's just how it goes with custom builds. Honestly, spending hours on a tiny bent pin is part of the process and totally normal. You can't expect it to be easy every time.

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kim_martin7mo ago

Spent a whole weekend once because a loose SATA cable was barely connected.

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emery_hall6mo ago

Nah, that's just sloppy work. You should've spotted that pin right away with a proper check.

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