first time ive ever built my own but decided to give it a shot 
blew my old computer up by trying to flash the bios with bios write protection enabled
here it is,
it was a Athlon 64 x2 3800+ with a 7600gt
served me well but I didnt half give it a whack when i ballsed it up
so got up this morning and popped up to OCuK, hour and half there, hour and half back. could have got it delivered but didnt want to risk it plus im an impatient git
Was a very nice BWM parked in the car park (wonder who that belongs to?
)
Picked up my stuff and paid for it, ouch.
got everything home and unwrapped it from the shrink wrap. It amazes me that with all the anti static measures required they wrap it in stuff that is so full of the blody stuff I was spitting sparks
any way heres the obligatory box shot
so got it all unpacked and pulled the case out, jesus that things big.
started to prepare the mobo, everything going well so far. somethings bound to go wrong tho isnt it
got the mobo in the case and installed the cooler
next up put the soundcard and gfx in. oh fudge the cooler fouls the first pci slot so cant put the sound card in there, so it goes in the second slot, ah crap now the gfx wont fit in the first pci-e slot, quick trip to the forums to check its ok to put them in the second slots and all is good
right time to put the hard drives and stuff in, all went smoothly
Ok brown trousers time 1st turn on!!!!!!!! fingers crossed toes crossed, chicken sacrificed and prayers said.
Everything powers up ... WOOOOOT, uh oh wait a minute no display!!! panic stations, eeek theres a red light on the mobo whats that mean?!?!?! frantically scanning the mobo manual it means theres a ram problem, what could it be, tried the mem ok feature 9-10 time still nothing. getting ready to smash something now!! ok check all power cables, all looks good, take out soundcard and try gfx in 1st slot, still nothing.
A whole hour trying to work it out, ok time to strip it down to basics. hang on one last check of the mobo manual, hmmmm whats this? the first ram slot on the board isnt the first ram slot you should use, oh ffs what a doofus am i!
swap the ram slots and fire her up. WE HAVE LIFE!!!
ok lets install windows, gets to 15% thru and blue screen, ok restart, cannot find bootmanager, ok restart, cannot find setup files, getting ready to bin it all now lol, ok lets see what could it be, its getting 15% thru then stopping, is the disk scratched? Nope, is the HDD fudged? Nope, Loose SATA cable? YEP
sorted installed within 15 minutes after that 
running nicely atm
so there it is 
running thru now trying to install all the drivers and set windows how I want it, told the mrs I will tidy up tomorrow, she wasnt impressed
hope you enjoyed
spec list is in sig

blew my old computer up by trying to flash the bios with bios write protection enabled


it was a Athlon 64 x2 3800+ with a 7600gt

so got up this morning and popped up to OCuK, hour and half there, hour and half back. could have got it delivered but didnt want to risk it plus im an impatient git


Picked up my stuff and paid for it, ouch.
got everything home and unwrapped it from the shrink wrap. It amazes me that with all the anti static measures required they wrap it in stuff that is so full of the blody stuff I was spitting sparks
any way heres the obligatory box shot

so got it all unpacked and pulled the case out, jesus that things big.

started to prepare the mobo, everything going well so far. somethings bound to go wrong tho isnt it


got the mobo in the case and installed the cooler

next up put the soundcard and gfx in. oh fudge the cooler fouls the first pci slot so cant put the sound card in there, so it goes in the second slot, ah crap now the gfx wont fit in the first pci-e slot, quick trip to the forums to check its ok to put them in the second slots and all is good


right time to put the hard drives and stuff in, all went smoothly


Everything powers up ... WOOOOOT, uh oh wait a minute no display!!! panic stations, eeek theres a red light on the mobo whats that mean?!?!?! frantically scanning the mobo manual it means theres a ram problem, what could it be, tried the mem ok feature 9-10 time still nothing. getting ready to smash something now!! ok check all power cables, all looks good, take out soundcard and try gfx in 1st slot, still nothing.
A whole hour trying to work it out, ok time to strip it down to basics. hang on one last check of the mobo manual, hmmmm whats this? the first ram slot on the board isnt the first ram slot you should use, oh ffs what a doofus am i!
swap the ram slots and fire her up. WE HAVE LIFE!!!
ok lets install windows, gets to 15% thru and blue screen, ok restart, cannot find bootmanager, ok restart, cannot find setup files, getting ready to bin it all now lol, ok lets see what could it be, its getting 15% thru then stopping, is the disk scratched? Nope, is the HDD fudged? Nope, Loose SATA cable? YEP


running nicely atm





running thru now trying to install all the drivers and set windows how I want it, told the mrs I will tidy up tomorrow, she wasnt impressed

hope you enjoyed

spec list is in sig
