It's Alive!

MaxonTreik

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So my first ever PC build finally started working last night. I can now build PCs! It took some doing, but I got there in the end. I found my main problem was that I needed to go into the BIOS and set the first boot device to CD/DVD instead of the HDD, so that it could setup Windows XP.

Aw man. The Orange Box is gonna look suh-weeeeeeeeeeeeet!

Anyone else overcome a difficult problem recently?
 
Sooner or later I'm going to overcome my computer's chronic display problems, power failures and random freezes by throwing it out of the window and jabbing at the remains with a screwdriver. Then i'll buy the new one I was supposed to buy 2 years ago anyway.

Don't get too excited about how the Orange Box looks on your new machine though. It looks good on most computers anyway. Until this self-built, five year old machine started painting pulsating magenta dots everywhere, Orange Box looked pretty good anyway :p
 
kupoartist said:
Sooner or later I'm going to overcome my computer's chronic display problems, power failures and random freezes by throwing it out of the window and jabbing at the remains with a screwdriver.
I put a pickaxe through a CRT monitor once (it was disconnected and outside on the ground mind).

Glad it went well Maxon. It feels pretty good to boot up a machine you've built yourself for the first time. I still have a SATA hard drive left over from my last build that I've never used, because I couldn't get my original copy of XP to recognise it. :?
 
kupoartist said:
Don't get too excited about how the Orange Box looks on your new machine though. It looks good on most computers anyway. Until this self-built, five year old machine started painting pulsating magenta dots everywhere, Orange Box looked pretty good anyway :p
It didn't look good on my PC, I can assure you of that. Besides, having a good PC certainly helps.
 
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