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WMartin

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Aug 6, 2003
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ok...i'm a newbie building his 1st machine

i get the case, open the box, unwrap it, find no directions....

and wonder what the f*** all these screws are for.......

hahahahah

15 minutes later and some head scratching, it's funny
 

MichaelD

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Jan 16, 2001
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Many questions, indeed!! :Q This should be over in General Hardware, BTW.

Bag O'Parts

Brass colored, 6-sided thingees with a screw thread on one end and screw receptacle on the other: These are called "STANDOFFS."
They screw into the holes inside the case. These are what the motherboard mounts to.
Lay the mobo down in the case. NOTICE how the mounting holes in the motherboard line up with certain holes on the floor of the case? Screw one standoff into every corresponding hole in the case.

Smaller hex-head screws: these are used to mount the mobo to the standoffs.

Bigger hex-head screws: these are used to secure PCI/AGP cards to the case, and to hold the sides of the case on.

For basic system-building info, please SEARCH over in the General Hardware forum.

Welcome to the Anandtech Forums!
 

mechBgon

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Here's another tip: compare your motherboard's various ports (keyboard and mouse ports, USB ports, printer, audio, etc) to the rectangular panel installed in your case. You may need to knock out some blanks, or you may need to remove the stock rectangle ("I/O plate") and pop in the one that comes with your motherboard, if it uses an unorthodox layout.

Hang in there, you'll be proud of your rig once she's done
 

WMartin

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Aug 6, 2003
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told you i was a newbie.

actually got almost all the parts stuffed in (what a highly technical description! heehee)

gonna to finish it up and put the juice to it tomorrow.

more head scratching awaits.
 

Ness

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So I guess we should start awaiting the post for "heard a loud pop and sparks flew"



haha, good luck buddy. Hope everything goes A-Ok and you have yourself a fun new toy
 

huesmann

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Originally posted by: WMartin
actually got almost all the parts stuffed in (what a highly technical description! heehee)
The best thing to do actually is to start small--CPU, RAM and vid card. Make sure it POSTs, then add drives and install OS. Then install PCI cards.
 

FPSguy

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Tip: Make sure the power supply is switched on if there is an on-off switch on the back.

Could have saved me 15 minutes of head scratching if I would have read that tip before my second build.
 

Davegod

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tbh the most "important" two things to be told about is to do with cases & cooling anyway.

in the case's bag-o-bits, those brass standoffs (made of brass, screw at one end screw hole at the other) go between mobo and case, holding up your mobo but keeping it from contacting the case. there should be a quick-start guide or diagram that came with your mobo, should highlight the holes which are used to attatch it to the pc case. if not, they usually look like they have little sort of foil washers around them, and anyway it should only be these holes that line up with the screw holes in the case, probably about 6 of them. first put your mobo to the place it goes to figure out the right holes, then screw the standoffs into the correct holes in the case. put in the mobo, and screw it into the standoffs. or DONT, because you should put your heatsink fan onto the cpu and mobo before you screw in your mobo! can be easier to line it up without the heatsink on though. there may also be paper washers which go on the topside of the mobo to further reduce chances of the screw heat causing a short circuit, but theyre not really necessary.

other dodgy bit is putting the heatsink on the cpu, read up and excercise care, especially: remember to remove any plastic on the underside of the heatisnk before putting it on, make sure the heatisnk goes on the right way around (so the ledge cut into the base lines up with the shelf on the cpu socket - you dont want the shelf lifting the heatsink off the cpu or it wont work well enough. also remember to plug the heatsink fan into the power! probs will be going into the cpu fan header on the mobo.

most screws wont go easily into screw holes theyre not intended for, and those that do are pretty much interchangeable.
 
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