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Getting Help Building Your Computer

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the everyone-needs-a-little-helping-hand dept.

An anonymous reader submitted an excellent story about getting help when assembling a PC from scratch. I'm sure many readers here know how harrowing the experience can be, and will appreciate this entertaining tale of lilliputians helping in this rite of passage.

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  1. First Time (ohh err!) by T-Kir · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The first time I assembled a computer, I scratched the bottom of the motherboard on the mounting points. I completed the build, but was presented with random crashes. Found out the scratch spread metal filaments across multiple paths, fortunately rubbing the area clean solved the whole thing.

    Well now it's my turn to help teach one of my friends how to build a computer! A learning experience for him indeed.

    I do like his use of Lego men on the site, although the 'Red Shirt' Lego man was very lucky to survive (considering their expendability).

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  2. Re:Not bad by Sonny+Yatsen · · Score: 3, Interesting

    First time I built a machine, I kept my other machine on and logged into chat so I can get realtime advice from the geeks.

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  3. Re:Harrowing? - Apple induction video by mccalli · · Score: 3, Interesting
    The whole thing was a crock we invented back in the 80s when the yields of the fabs was not exactly good.

    I used to work for a place that did a decent multimedia database, and one of the test videos we had was an Apple training video for engineers. Well, more like an induction video really.

    One of the sections showed an engineer patiently assembling a Mac Plus out of various components, and his boss coming in with a client to impress. Boss picked up a board, showed client who nodded sagely, then the two walked out.

    Apple's instruction to the engineer? Bin the board. They wouldn't allow it to go out having been handled by someone who might have inadvertantly aplied a static charge to it.

    Now - whether this was actually carried through in practice is another matter of course. But it was certainly there on their film.

    Cheers,
    Ian