Molex Connectors hate humans?

[ex_reven]

Is it just me, or do molex connectors refuse to budge from hard drives and disk drives just to spite me?

Bastards.

[Basard]

They hate humans man.

Even the 3.5'' floppy connector that my friend had hooked up to his X-Fi card wouldnt come off--I guess it had a little hook thingy on the bottom of it in a place that has no business being pried on.

Everything should have sata power in the future.

[wazzledoozle]

It always ends up jerking off and my hand flys out into the case, usually getting a deep cut on the sharp edge of a component or the case.

I once stuck my finger through a ~1/4" pin, hurt like a SOB.

[ex_reven]

I dont get it though, why the hell are they so damn tight.
There has to be a better way they could have done it.

Sata connectors are a godsend.

It always ends up jerking off and my hand flys out into the case, usually getting a deep cut on the sharp edge of a component or the case.

Yeah thats what I just did :p

[Black Panther]

I totally agree.

Apart from the molexes (sp?) I find it so awfully hard to insert cards. When I replaced my 8600GTS with the 8800GT the latter simply wouldn't go in properly. Now I'm a girl obviously lacking man muscles but should man muscles be needed just to insert a graphics card?!? In the process I saw my mobo bending slightly and my intestines got knotted... but I got it in and it worked... whew!

I can't imagine why stuff is so tight. Is it planned to withstand an earthquake or a kick dropping the case to the floor?

Ironically, whenever I transport my old P4 I always have to remove and reinsert the RAM sticks. And yeah they're always all so awfully tightly inserted still... :confused: so the end doesn't doesn't justify the means at all in that case... :ohwell:

[imperialreign]

I don't ever really have a problem removing them . . .

but, installing is a different story - even on brand new connectors, you always get one or two pins - usually on the far sides of the connector - that are angled in a way such that you can't just plug the male and female connectors together straight . . . you've gotta hold one at an angle, and then kinda rotate it straight, and hope you don't bend another pin - then, should you actually get the balls to try and bend them straight with a small flat blade or otherwise, they go and break - so you've got to remove the pins from the connector, pry the crimps apart on the broke connector, and install a new pin that for some reason isn't the same size as the others, it's usually a little too big around, so when installing the connectors, it wides the female pin, and then no other molex connector fits right on that female connector anymore :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

whoever patented the original molex designs has probably been laughing it up all the way to the bank for years - he can pay someone to install them for him :wtf:

[Steevo]

People have brought me systems they replaced the CD drives in and the molex connectors were in upside down, cooking the drive.

[Graogrim]

Holy cow, now THAT takes talent.

[imperialreign]

People have brought me systems they replaced the CD drives in and the molex connectors were in upside down, cooking the drive.


:twitch:

what'd they do, take a razor blade and shave the squared edges of the connector to get it to fit?!

[Craigleberry]

Last time I stripped down my pc the molex hooked up to my 120mm exhaust was bloody tight I had too use a hell of a lot of force to unplug it... Plugging them back in is a right pain in the backside too. If I had a dollar for every swear word I have said when building a pc I would be a wealthy man.

[btarunr]

I had a bad experience with these too. I was once dissembling my PC, pulling out the Molex connector off a EIDE drive which was in front of a video-card. I was pulling out with all the huff-puff, it got off in a jerk and my fist hit the edge of the video-card with force and gave my fist a horrible cut. What was worse, in this same incident pulling a Molex off the video-card caused something similar to happen and my right hand fist hitting the aluminium drive-cage. No cut here though. But don't worry, Molex is being phased out, with components using it on the decline.

[SK-1]

People have brought me systems they replaced the CD drives in and the molex connectors were in upside down, cooking the drive.

If it don't fit,...force it!!

[Craigleberry]

If it don't fit,...force it!!

lol
My Dad always say's " When in doubt... Get a bigger hammer"

[hat]

I've hurt myself on molex connectors, but I've never cut myself. There might be some pain, but it usually goes away after 5 minutes or so.

[craigwhiteside]

lol
My Dad always say's " When in doubt... Get a bigger hammer"

or a sledgehammer for that matter :toast:

http://www.gp.lib.mi.us/information/about/Tools/sledgehammer.jpg

:roll: :roll:

[hat]

Sledgehammers are for wussies. I used a jackhammer to install my video card.

[btarunr]

^ Now that's some serious hardware for hardware.

[craigwhiteside]

Sledgehammers are for wussies. I used a jackhammer to install my video card.
nah i get the hulk to do it for me :D, and my molex's :roll::roll:

http://www.dott-com.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/hulk-case-mod.jpg

[imperialreign]

Sledgehammers are for wussies. I used a jackhammer to install my video card.

brute force . . . meh . . .

I've tethered mine in with zip-ties and JB-Weld.

[hat]

I once had a CPU dropped in from an F-16 fighter jet going full speed. Like a bomb. Amazing accuracy. Had the same done for the heatsink too... amazing contact!

[btarunr]

I didn't know F-16 shits chips too.

[imperialreign]

I once had a CPU dropped in from an F-16 fighter jet going full speed. Like a bomb. Amazing accuracy. Had the same done for the heatsink too... amazing contact!

do they install better when the components have broken the sound barrier? more seat pressure or something?

[Craigleberry]

nah i get the hulk to do it for me :D, and my molex's :roll::roll:

http://www.dott-com.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/hulk-case-mod.jpg
Lol :roll::roll::roll::roll::roll::rockout:

[Ripper3]

Hulk would probably be the worst system builder ever. Buying a cheap case with sharp edges is not ideal, otherwise he'd go all green, and break everything, and then get even angrier when they won't RMA his stuff.
It's a chain that never stops.

[craigwhiteside]

Hulk would probably be the worst system builder ever. Buying a cheap case with sharp edges is not ideal, otherwise he'd go all green, and break everything, and then get even angrier when they won't RMA his stuff.
It's a chain that never stops.

i wonder who that reminds me of :confused:

[btarunr]

Hulk is an NVidia fanboy...I mean fanhulk. beware!

[snuif09]

molex:eek::eek: THE MEMORIES IT HURTS MEEEE:cry::cry::cry::cry:

[craigwhiteside]

Hulk is an NVidia fanboy...I mean fanhulk. beware!

LOL!, so i guess wonder woman is an ati fan eh :D

btw made this for ati fans out there :D

[3991vhtes]

Molex connectors are a royal b1tch. I hate having to change things out. Like HDD's, DVD drives, fans, etc.

It always ends up jerking off and my hand flys out into the case, usually getting a deep cut on the sharp edge of a component or the case.

Happens to me too..

[ex_reven]

but, installing is a different story - even on brand new connectors, you always get one or two pins - usually on the far sides of the connector - that are angled in a way such that you can't just plug the male and female connectors together straight . . . you've gotta hold one at an angle

What I do is I grab all the wires coming from the pins of the molex and i pull them in one direction so that the pins move in the other, which doesnt keep them straight but at least keeps them together in a line.

[imperialreign]

What I do is I grab all the wires coming from the pins of the molex and i pull them in one direction so that the pins move in the other, which doesnt keep them straight but at least keeps them together in a line.

yeah, I've done that sometimes, too.


Best thing to hit the molex scene was the advent of the quick release connectors - it made removing them soooo much easier . . . . but it added to the difficulty of installing them :rolleyes:

[Morgoth]

i use a pumptang to pull out the molex connectors

[tkpenalty]

lol... my PC and the errm... nvm nothing sus, anyway i've never really found any problem with removing molexes. But fdd.... *throws one out the window*. I notice how new sticks of RAM are a pain in the arse to install, with the unburred pcb substrate...

[btarunr]

LOL!, so i guess wonder woman is an ati fan eh :D

btw made this for ati fans out there :D

I get it...there're more ATI fans than NV fans on TPU :shadedshu

[largon]

i use a pumptang to pull out the molex connectorsCome again?
I can't figure out what a "pumptang" is - or rather, what was the word you misspelled.

[Morgoth]

i dont know the english word for it XD
http://www.stanleyworks.nl/CatalogImages/741_prev.jpg

[largon]

^Pliers.

[Grings]

Quick release seemed a good idea, until i got my 9800 pro which had the molex set too far back on the pcb (see pic), and i had to use a nasty3pin-4pin fan connector with a regular molex connector, which looked real crappy
http://img.techpowerup.org/080106/molex.jpg

[largon]

I had an Enermax Liberty 500W before this Seasonic M12 600W that had an awesome "single clipped" quick release molexes. Then came the Seasonic with dual clipped molexes. I soon noticed Seasonic's don't work too well (infact they sucked hard) so I swapped the good, single clipped connectors from the Liberty before selling the Enermax.

Always a pleasure to detach 'n' attach couple dozen connectors with no appropriate molex removal tool...

[MadCow]

God I hate molex connectors. I don't know how many times I've cut myself trying to pull them out. One time I actually cut my hand badly on my old 9600 PRO when pulling it out of a hard drive, it might still have some blood on it. I especially hate it when the pin contact is bad and the current actually jumps a bit from the male to female end and melts the plastic around it, welding the 2 connectors together. That takes so much force it's unbelievable.

[Urbklr]

I hate them as well....I have the hardest time hooking fans up, but the f**king pins in the male part never match the pins in the female end....god i hate them. But those quick release connectors are awesome, i have them on my corsair:)

[JC316]

I work on cars, so it's not that big of a deal, but they are tight as hell, I always bash my hand when unplugging them.

[pepsi71ocean]

i though i had a good PSU till i aquired my Silverstone, those molex Connectors are so tight that it takes a huge ammount of force to do anything with them. It was alot of fun when i connected and then disconnected a Molex from my MOBO, and hit my gfx card and then sliced my hand across my Zalman's razor sharp HSF blades. Hurt and bleed like a byoch.