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bob2302

PRAISETHESUN said:

@bob2302 that's why I prefer buying new as at least you have a warranty for faulty goods, but you are right it can be difficult to diagnose what actually is faulty if it doesn't boot, especially if you don't have any known good parts to hand to switch out! Thats kinda half the fun though.

That said, most cases I've had personally where the PC hasn't posted after building/upgrading have been down to my own errors though. Only once has it actually been faulty hardware

It happened to me once and I didn't find it in the least bit fun.  I'm interested about how people deal with that problem these days. Do you just return everything and claim it's faulty?

It happened to me a long time ago when returns were far more of a hassle than they are now. I ended-up buying some bottom of the range components to swap in, but that's not an ideal solution.