Rules for building computers

August 11th, 2007 - 01:41 | 1 comment

You will draw blood at some point. Usually when trying to remove stubborn cd-bay covers. Have plasters available. Try not to drip on the motherboard.
Never do anything in a hurry. It won’t work.
Do not leave USB card-readers plugged in. Windows will decide your 250gb hard drive should be designated H:, because it has no sense. You will only notice this after ninety minutes of configuration.
Those drive-rails you have lying around won’t fit. Don’t even bother.
Autopatcher is your friend.
It is a little-known consequence of the second law of thermodynamics that is it impossible to get a floppy-drive cable’s orientation correct first time.
Don’t screw the side of the case back on until you’re about to leave the building.
Electrical components are more robust than you might think. Touching the sides of graphics card / ram probably won’t cause any problems. Keep yourself earthed, though.
Do not install RealPlayer. Do not.
People installing modern heatsinks do not appreciate how lucky they are. Tell them.
The pause between ‘checking for connectivity’ and ‘your copy of Windows has been activated’ never stops being worrying, no matter how sure you are of legality.
Install the dotnet framework now and get it over with.

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One Response to “Rules for building computers”

1 Steve Aug 14th, 2007 at 1:18 am

Autopatcher is definately your friend…. I love that piece of software. I use this following official mirror for downloads: ap.500words.ca

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