u/chumgruntley1

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*Need Advice* Fractal Ridge build

This is gonna be ridiculous and I am by no means a professional, this is my first time dealing with a small form factor PC. I got a fractal node 202 build and decided to take it to a shop I found reputable, for them to transfer the components into a Fractal Ridge. I know I should have just done it myself, but I had a lot of things going on and just wanted it to be taken care of. Anyway, I told the technician take his time in building it and he calls me a week later saying the case is too hard to work in; he couldn’t fit my 9060XT in the gpu socket without cutting some parts in the back of the case and I told him not to do that. What he did not tell me was that he was going to hot glue my gpu to stay in place. I didn’t find out until opening it up after my computer kept rebooting during any steam game update or intense gaming session. The only reason I found out my gpu was glued was because I figured I’d open up the computer and see if maybe there was a problem with my sata drive since this problem was only happening during downloads or playing games like Witcher 3. Again I’m no professional, but the drive was just hanging not anchored to anything, and the connector had a piece that aligned the wire with the sata cable port and it was broken. I check on the rest of the computer and see that the gpu was glued down almost diagonally. For whatever reason the computer does not display anymore and when i boot up the computer the motherboard powers on but the fans on the gpu seem to no longer be spinning. I dont know what to do from here honestly and any advice would be appreciated. I feel like this whole project has been a money sink and it shows me how out of my depth I am at this shit.

u/chumgruntley1 — 8 days ago