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[Onucia]

Tomorrow I'm supposed to get my new motherboard and cpu...as it's the first time I'll be puting them together, anyone with more geek points than me got advise on how to screw my new card and make my cpu a good frying pan?

[Fizzzle]

Do what I did, there's some small metal prongs around the openings for USB/Firewire etc on the casing. Just get a couple of those prongs to curl inside the ethernet ports and short them out. Does wonders when you boot for the first time and the BIOS starts resetting. 

[Zorette]

lol yeh always helps 

[Edrik]

When I put together my first computer i had some cables loose between the powersupply and the motherboard.. they had the colour (brown, white, black and blue).
The where ment to plug into the powersupply but all the connections looked the same and there where no note on the powersupply how to connect them

So I thought.. hey.. then it dossent mather how I connect them.

So when I started the computer the first time I broke the main fuse in the house and it went complete black. The time was about 02:00 am and I had to wake my father up so he could fix the fuse..
But the powersupply was ok

My recommendation is to.
1. Dont rush.
2. Have a big bright area where you will put together the motherboard. I use the floor mostly.
3. have some bowl or similar where you put all screws and stuff so they are easy to find.
4. have a flashlight perpared because you may need sometimes to have bright light.
5. prepare screwdrivers and everything before starting to play around.
6. unpack everything and check that all parts are there and place them so they are easy to reach and that you have total control on the parts.
7. Check documentation and maby internet before you put it together so you are sure that you are doing it right.. The cpu is hard to remove if you missplace it because it has glue on it so it's best to put it right the first time.

[Fizzzle]

My recommendation is to.
1. Dont rush.
2. Have a big bright area where you will put together the motherboard. I use the floor mostly.
3. have some bowl or similar where you put all screws and stuff so they are easy to find.
4. have a flashlight perpared because you may need sometimes to have bright light.
5. prepare screwdrivers and everything before starting to play around.
6. unpack everything and check that all parts are there and place them so they are easy to reach and that you have total control on the parts.
7. Check documentation and maby internet before you put it together so you are sure that you are doing it right.. The cpu is hard to remove if you missplace it because it has glue on it so it's best to put it right the first time.

lol Edrik that's far too organized, I just take all the stuff out of the boxes put it together there and then and wonder why:-
1. I have loads of bits left over
2. It doesn't work
3. Everyone in the house is complaining about the swearing and the mess.

Seriously though the points you made are good.

[Nympha]

You know you've put together too many computers when all those points seem to make perfect sense but you wouldnt begin to consider sticking to them (I've been putting together PC's for the last 12 years or so, quite a few while working for a computerstore)

1. 20 minutes putting together a complete pc (including collecting all parts), although nowadays I tend to take a good hour to replace a mainboard in one of my own pc's
2. That store started out in a tiny building. The showroom was no bigger than the average livingroom, storage/office/assembly/testing was in the kitchen, two assemblystations side by side, elbowing into each other when you were working there together.
3. We did have that, or rather some of those systematic storagesystems for all kinds of screws
4. nevah, fumbling around in the dark whenever we blew a fuse
5. one size fits all (seriously: almost everything you do with computers can be done with a phillips, not sure what size it is)
6. last time I was messing with my gaming pc (swapping mainboard with another pc), i was juggling one pc on my lap, other in front of me on the desk, one mainboard placed on the keyboard, other in my hand
7. actually, there's never glue on a cpu (or there shouldn't be!) what you're referring to probably is the cooling paste, which is sticky but should come off pretty easily. Nowadays, inserting and removing cpu's is easy, in "my day", you actually had to use a bit of force to insert a cpu and use a flat screwdriver to remove it (actually, there were specific tools for the job, but those were always hiding when we needed them so we didn't bother ). I'm talking 486DX2/Pentium60/90 era here.

[Portheos]

What I like to do right off the bat is put the cpu and ram onto the board before placing the board into the housing. I usually have the board on the sponge that it came with in the box. This way you do not put undue pressure on the board when you clip the cpu cooling fan in place.

I also like to get all my hd's and dvd drive installed in the case before I install the main board.

next pop the mainboard in.

Next all the cables required for the power, reset and hd light on the front panel

pop in the gfx card, attach all appropriate power and data cables, close up, power in and switch on.

Tadaaaa

[Nympha]

What I like to do right off the bat is put the cpu and ram onto the board before placing the board into the housing. I usually have the board on the sponge that it came with in the box. This way you do not put undue pressure on the board when you clip the cpu cooling fan in place.

Yup, definately a golden tip. In fact essential if, like me, you like to use custom cpu coolers which have a bracket on the backside of the mainboard   

I also like to get all my hd's and dvd drive installed in the case before I install the main board.

next pop the mainboard in.

I usually do it the other way around, especially in smaller cases where the hdd bracket or the dvd drive get in the way of placing the mainboard.

[Onucia]

Everything went well my pc is working fine...only bad thing is I "lost" a HDD in the process 'cause it was old and doesn't work with sata but it's nothing bad really...I'll ust have to get a new HDD sometime soon.

[Nympha]

What mainboard did you get then? Most mainboard I know have at least one old disk connector (usually called IDE, recently often referred to as P-ATA, 40-wire flatcable). You'll probably need that connector for a dvd drive too, but it's possible to hook up 2 drives to one cable with P-ATA...

[Onucia]

Yes exactly I have an IDE drive but it's already fully used lol...but yeah I can get the datas from the old HDD to the new one  my old board had 2 IDE connectors...thus the difference

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