So I powered up the first computer which I built myself tonight....

[gray_ghost]

eeeeeek.....so it's fucking scary! No one told me that. When I hit the power button - lights on my motherboard started going on and I was waiting for a snizzling snappy sound to come from the motherboard and the smell of burnt aluminum and copper to waft through the air as my computer caught on fire because I didn't apply the thermal paste on the CPU correctly or some stupid thing like that.

So...the bios splash screen popped up on my monitor - informing me that my CPU fan was working at a lower speed than it should - and that I could get rid of this error message by going online and downloading an updated bios.

Very anticlimactic....*sigh*

Comments

[katekat]

awwww! poookie! sorry it was so anti climactic! but do you have everything installed now and is it fantasticlly zippy?

[gray-ghost.livejournal.com]

weirdness....i didn't get this comment emailed to me.

Yes - I have everything hooked up and it is fantastically zippy. Although it weighs a ton. Mostly that's due to the case I opted for. It's solid steel - really SOLID steel. With one bright blue blinnking led near the center which tells me when it's accessing the harddrive. And it is super quiet.


Anyway - if the opportunity arises - I highly recommend building your own computer. It's kind of fun =)

Of course I'm only saying that because mine didn't catch on fire. That still happens - despite how easy the hardware manufacturers try to make it for people going their own way.