I built my first computer ever today... and jesus was the experience.... well interesting I guess!
First things first, I did NOT go through this without problems, I made some pretty damn stupid mistakes which I'm surprised haven't come back to bite me.
So the first thing I did was install the CPU...
The biggest mistake I made was umm.. not putting the CPU in properly... I had taken the words "put it in gently" a little to literal and assumed it was in place, and when I put the stock cpu cooler on I noted it was moving around a lot... only to pick up and see the cpu stuck to the bottom of the fan.. OOPS!
I fixed it very quickly and was amazed I didn't fuck up the pins. The next oh so fun part was trying to hook the retention's of the fan to the side. this took me so god damn long because it just wouldn't stay, I'd say I spent about half an hour before I got it right.
After this I installed the 4GB ram as you can see in the picture above and got ready to place the motherboard into the case.
Before doing that however I placed the powersupply, hard drive and optical drive into the case, because they were easy to install
(Close up of HDD)
Now I installed the mother board into the case, the case came with some pre installed motherboard standoffs however I needed two more for the MB I was using.
The screws all worked very well and I was starting to get close to the end of the build.
Now that the motherboard was securely in the case I now decided to hook everything together, here's a before and after picture.
Before
After:
Everything was all connected, it was complete!! I hooked up the power cable and got ready to see the PC boot!!
.... and it didn't
I was confused and wondered why it wouldn't work however by this point it was late at night and decided to wait til morning to see the problem.
Now by morning time all sorts of things raced through my mind, did I break the CPU earlier? Did I scratch the motherboard? Is the PSU fucked?
...nope it was none of that after all! After a couple of hours tinkering with the MB I actually found out the connector to power the MB... was loose... once again oopsie
So here it is... my first boot!
The computer is now waiting safely in a box to be delivered to my friend! If anyone is interested in building a PC I would HIGHLY recommend doing it, it was such a fun experience!
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