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[bubosquared]

I have a new computer! Now I just have to put it all together, which, er, fills me with dread. O_O I don't suppose anyone in Edinburgh would be willing to come and do it for me some time in the next hour or so? I'll feed you! *hopeful look* (Yeah, didn't think so. *goes to google instructions*)

[ETA]Phase One of Operation: New Computer has been completed successfully. It doesn't have a Hard Drive yet or anything, but I managed to not zap the processor or motherboard with static electricity (I'm kinda sensitive to that, though much less so now that I have no short hair), install the motherboard, connect all the fiddly little cables (OMG HATE!), install the graphics card I've had lying around for eighteen goddamned months (... long story involving me being stupid), and boot up the computer. It works. I may have yelled "Oh, YES!" rather loudly. Possibly.

Now, we begin Phase Two, in which I install the hard drive and CD/DVD/floppy drives, as well as assorted cards (USB and dialup modem, pretty much), and configure the motherboard. I've backed up the hard drive (thank you, iPod!) and noted all the programmes I have installed, because I'm going to format the hard drive and reinstall Windows anyway (I want to start completely from scratch), but if all goes well I should be able to start up straight away. And even if all doesn't go well, this is the phase in which I cannot permanently screw something up anymore.[/ETA]

[ETA2] Posting this from my phone because the hard drive is formatting, sigh. Oh well, I was going to do that anyway, so as long as this means it'll work then, I'll just have to be patient. [ETA2]

Comments

[yodathedark.livejournal.com]

Not in the next hour... but I might be able to help...

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

I'm more impatient than nervous, it seems, heh. Though there's some questions below I'd like an answer to and would be grateful if someone could help!

[spacelem.livejournal.com]

Not today, but I can certainly help to debug when things inevitably go wrong. I've had to do it myself often enough.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Actually, would you happen to know:

a) if my motherboard has DDR DIMM slots, and the memory they gave me is ... DDR400(? I think), would I be able to put SDRAM DIMM memory in the second slot? (I assume not, but you never know)

b) I can just connect my hard drive to the motherboard and install the BIOS and stuff and it'll work, right? Or should I back everything up and reinstall windows? (I'm ... not really good with hardware, you may have noticed.)

[wibbble]

1) is a definite no.

[yodathedark.livejournal.com]

b) well you wouldn't want to install the BIOS - it's already on the motherboard.

but you can just connect the HDD (IDE and power cables) and then it should just work. it might not without formatting, but the system should work.

i'd advise formatting and reinstalling and as you're doing it anyway, I'll be quiet now.

[troubleinchina.livejournal.com]

Or you could have picked up that fancy phone of yours and *called*, woman. Lord. *roll eyes* *thwaps you* LJ does NOT solve everything. ;)

Also, I have ribbons. *grin*

[elfiepike.livejournal.com]

:D! YAY MELLE!