I've just put together my first PC from scratch... with some invaluble verbal support from 
jikatal and only occasional mild annoyances from air_bizkit I'm sat here listening to the hum of the Athlon 2500xp I just put together.
Out of the packages they were delivered in.
This was rather daunting at first, but, I started, and before I knew it the chip was greased up and it was in the motherboard with heatsink & fan firmly attatched.
Then I realised the hard bit was done, and I found it fairly easy too. Woo Yay! Go Me.
jikatal and only occasional mild annoyances from air_bizkit I'm sat here listening to the hum of the Athlon 2500xp I just put together. Out of the packages they were delivered in.
This was rather daunting at first, but, I started, and before I knew it the chip was greased up and it was in the motherboard with heatsink & fan firmly attatched.
Then I realised the hard bit was done, and I found it fairly easy too. Woo Yay! Go Me.
- Current Mood:Chuffed :-)
- Current Music:The hum of my first ever PC - gee, don't you guys READ?
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I remember doing much the same thing back in early 1999, only then it was an AMD K6-2 350MHz chip.
You realise you're on a slippery slope now tho! ;)
*just say no, kids, Crack is cheaper!*
hmmm? did somebody say something?....
well done, the first time is always a bit scarey... hehehe
Congrats! I've been working at the other end of the spectrum (geeky pun intended) and fixing my Commodore 64...which I'd guess is about a million times less powerful than your new beastie.
Should probably be concentrating on getting my real desktop beastie up to scratch tho - it's only 5years old rather than 20
Everything worked except the graphics card, so I just get a blank screen, 8 beeps, a pause, then another beep. I know I'm easily amused but I'm gonna get bored of this pretty soon
btw I took the machine Snoweh built and overclocked it to 3400 rating (which doesn't exist yet but u can extrapolate ¬_¬) with 210Mhz bus :) So she must have put it together right ;) Graphics card oc'd 25% as well. Stays under 48degcel. Result :)
My housemates machine doesn't seem to recognise the graphics card at all. It boots ok using a PCI graphics card, the AGP one gives the same beeps as having no graphics card. Either a dodgy motherboard/dodgy graphics card or an incompatibilty. The instructions for the mobo say AGP is detected automatically and no BIOS setup has to be done. There is 1 jumper on the graphics card (Sapphire Radeon 9600 128Mb Atlantis) but I haven't found out what it does (not had internet much due to rebuilding all the computers at the same time D'Oh!)
As for dual booting - I've always found using 2 hard drives makes for an easier life ;)
Another issue is that my games machine now has a graphics card problem as well. Boots up the XP loading screen and when it comes to the bit to change to a higher resolution just get a black screen, monitor reports no signal, computer hangs, Ctl-Alt-Del doesn't reboot. F**king computers. I only moved it as my server failed to load XP on 2 separate CD drives and I wanted to use the CD drive from the games machine. Tried all the obvious things like reseating the graphics card, checking all the cables. Works ok in safe mode. Know any good games that play in safe mode?