Happy Days

rangersmith · 03-16-2006, 03:42 PM

Just wanted to share with someone the momentus occasion of the birth of by first build which was powered up tonight (with great dread as I hit the button) at 8.47 pm. So far all's well and is purring away nicely. Would also like to thank all at this forum whom have helped me with other prob's over the past year or so CHEERS ALL.

Ranger.

Chevy · 03-16-2006, 03:48 PM

Congrats!

But you won't be a true builder until it fails and you spend half a day troubleshooting it down to a loose ide cable (or something equally simple).

Tumbleweed36 · 03-16-2006, 06:57 PM

Hi,

Congrats of your first build rangersmith.

elf · 03-16-2006, 07:18 PM

Congrats, the first one I ever built (about 6 years ago) didn't last but a few seconds. My "genius" friend told me the heatsink wasn't neccessary...needless to say my AMD K7 promptly went up in a puff of smoke.

So at the very least, you're doing better than me!

Tumbleweed36 · 03-16-2006, 07:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by elf

Congrats, the first one I ever built (about 6 years ago) didn't last but a few seconds. My "genius" friend told me the heatsink wasn't neccessary...

Uhh, and you actually believed him????????

needless to say my AMD K7 promptly went up in a puff of smoke.

So at the very least, you're doing better than me!

**kodi** · 03-16-2006, 07:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chevy

Congrats!

But you won't be a true builder until it fails and you spend half a day troubleshooting it down to a loose ide cable (or something equally simple).

I'm sure we have all been there done that.

sinclair_tm · 03-16-2006, 10:02 PM

i have. your doing better than my first. it was pieced together from unwanted computers from a thrift store. i took all the best parts and tried to build one good computer. this was back in the win 95 days. needless to say, i never did get it working right. so i gave up, and stuck with my second hand macs that always worked.
but i did build one a couple years later from all new parts and with win 98se that worked well, and served me 3 years, until the ex took it.

rangersmith · 03-17-2006, 06:22 AM

All still O.K, been running 2 instances of folding@home all night, both cores 100 % and still purring along. CPU temp 35 thats if I am reading spead fan correct, is the CPU temp fan 2, anyone Know.

Cheers

elf · 03-17-2006, 08:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tumbleweed36

Uhh, and you actually believed him????????

Well like I said, it was my first build and he had just finished building his old pentium computer (with a slot processor, which can run without a heatsink for a little while)...so I figured he probably knew more than me about it. It was when he said, "Maybe it's supposed to smoke because it's an AMD" that I realised he was a moron.

Fortunately I had a warranty on the processor...

**Jason** · 03-17-2006, 08:45 AM

Congradulations. I still remember my first computer build. A 486. Wow, that takes me back. Great feelilng isn't it, when it powers up the first time?

03-16-2006, 03:42 PM	#1 (permalink)
rangersmith Registered User Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Wales Posts: 135 OS: win xp My System	Happy Days Just wanted to share with someone the momentus occasion of the birth of by first build which was powered up tonight (with great dread as I hit the button) at 8.47 pm. So far all's well and is purring away nicely. Would also like to thank all at this forum whom have helped me with other prob's over the past year or so CHEERS ALL. Ranger.

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Chevy Semi-Retired Manager, Microsoft Support Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Notlob Posts: 5,188 OS: Vista Ultimate My System	Congrats! But you won't be a true builder until it fails and you spend half a day troubleshooting it down to a loose ide cable (or something equally simple). __________________ “The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on. ” - Robert Bloch

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03-17-2006, 06:22 AM	#8 (permalink)
rangersmith Registered User Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Wales Posts: 135 OS: win xp My System	All still O.K, been running 2 instances of folding@home all night, both cores 100 % and still purring along. CPU temp 35 thats if I am reading spead fan correct, is the CPU temp fan 2, anyone Know. Cheers