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

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*