Assembly
Tonight I started putting together my new PC.
Much was accomplished but I've still got a few things to do. Chief among these things is finding the jumper that I need to connect my CPU cooler to the power supply - and that was supposed to be included with the thing. I should have known not to buy a relabeled "this part was returned but it's just fine, really" fan from Fry's.
I'm pretty pleased though. Everything went together smoothly - mechanically speaking, at least - including the greatly-feared "spreading of the thermal compound onto the expensive but rather flimsy looking CPU with a butter knife." And since I can't turn it on until I have the CPU fan powered, I get to go to bed imagining that everything will work when I do get to that part.
I had another entry I wanted to make tonight but it's late and I'm tired. Perhaps tomorrow I'll get around to telling you Cameron's latest tale of woe.
Comments
You are wise to not fire it up without the cooler. If I recall correctly the AMD parts don't have the built-in thermal protection that the Intel parts do.
As a result, they will happily fry themselves.
Good luck finding that one little 39 cent cable. :)
Posted by: Dino | January 28, 2003 9:52 PM
It seemed like a bad idea, turning it on without the massive heatsink/fan combo running. Plus it was pushing midnight - prime time for boneheaded mistakes.
As it turned out, Fry's was happy to let me get the missing part from another box. Tonight I got the new PC fired up, but that's a post for tomorrow night.
Posted by: Brad | January 28, 2003 10:12 PM