PC build project – moment of truth at i live in science land

so many wires! it really boggles my mind at the number of wires!

last night was mainly about making all the connections like hard drives to power supply and to motherboard, optical drive to power and mobo, and all of the case fans!

there were also lots of tiny connections for the front panel such as power switch, LEDs, audio, and USBs

once all the connections were made, i attached the CPU cooler which is pretty bulky and would make some wiring difficult

i then borrowed a monitor from subQuark and connected it along with a keyboard and a mouse

most people would have then plugged it in and fired it up, but it was late and i wanted to sleep well with the ignorance not knowing if it worked (clueless ignorance is bliss ya know)

morning came, and before heading off to work, i headed over to subQ’s with my Operating System in hand, ever hopeful and optimistic (and blind faith) =)

i plugged in the box and used the handy mobo power switch and . . .

whoosh! the fans came on, blinding lights scared me, and it worked! =)

i entered the BIOS which has loads of features like uber easy overclocking but i only changed the boot order to make sure the solid state drive was the C drive

then i stuck the Windows 7 disc in and restarted and 15 minutes later, the OS was fully installed

then i ran the Windows Experiences Index and got a whopping 1.0! w00t! all that time and money and the machine preforms like a 1996 box! woohoo! no need to fear, no internet connection but the mobo disc and video card disc had the drivers needed to bring the Windows Experience Index up to 7.3!

the data drive was not listed but a quick pop over to disk management and the world’s longest formatting (i should of left “quick format” selected – duh) and voila – a terabyte data drive!

i’ll connect it to the web tonight and get all the latest drivers and maybe look at overclocking a tiny bit

so was it worth it? yes!

and there’s more to come including dealing with the heinous amount of wires, installing all my software, and doing USB3.0 SoaS tests and OpenSim in general! phew and now hopefully my incredible achy neck and shoulders can relax and take a break! =p

the BIOS launched automatically

she’s pointing to the blurry power switch & diagnostic LED panel

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article series – Ener builds a PC:

taking the PC building plunge (using PCPartPicker to spec it out)
Ener’s VW computer project update (preliminary components selected)
PC rebates for do-it-yourselfers (saving money!)
PC build project – nite 01 (all the parts are in!)
PC build project – day 02 (learn to love the mobo manual)
PC build project – moment of truth (will it roar to life or spark and die)
PC build project – odds and ends (sound foam and wifi card)
PC build project – retrospect (stacking the odds for success)
Ener Hax’s 2012 OpenSim Computer (final part list, prices, rebates)

written by Ener Hax

August 15th, 2012 at 8:52 am

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PC build project – day 02 at i live in science land

15 Aug 12 at 8:53 am

And don’t forget the 242 updates for Windows :-D

Seriously, take the time to ensure that EVERYthing is updated and current.

Sarge Misfit

15 Aug 12 at 10:40 am

I can say that im running Windows 7 Ultimate 64b without a single restore since day 1, i think more then 1 year already.
My Win xp SP3 32b is running for far more then that as well and hosting my regions (Allocating 3 megas of ddr3 just to OSG exec helped a lot)!
But now it’s time for you not only to try all that but to grab a viewer that it will make your way well worth, i would go for Niran all the way but on OSG i still think, even without mesh and dr, Imprudence is the 1 to use:)

ZZ Bottom

15 Aug 12 at 12:07 pm

ZZ, As of v1.48, Niran’s has gone with the SL-Havok license and is no longer capable of logging in to OpenSim grids due to the removal of the –loginuri switch. This has been confirmed by Niran in his replies to Nebadon’s comments at http://niranv-sl.blogspot.ca/

15 Aug 12 at 12:27 pm

lol Sarge! i don’t have it connected to the web yet but am certain your are close with the number of updates! i am pretty fanatical on being up to date, running CCleaner, and Defraggler

i also like Speccy from the CCleaner peeps – it’s a low overhead system monitor with temperatures too

thanks ZZ (i should be getting my surge protector today, thanks for the reminder). i’m looking forward to Win 7 Ultimate and it boots up in 31 seconds (of course, nothing else is on the machine yet)

i’d like to do what you are doing with my old XP box because it is a solid build and runs fine (once it boots up). i could move it into my basement next to the router and with my fibre optic connection, it should run an OSgrid region pretty well. but . . . last year i never was able to get my router configured to allow anyone, including me, to access my region! you could see my region on the OSgrid map but could not TP to it! =\

Ener Hax

15 Aug 12 at 2:00 pm

Yes i had that problem on my optical fiber router as well, but after 2 weeks i just figured that i didn’t had the correct port forward for the computer i was hosting and i ended with 3 comps all using diff ports to host regions on osgrid, like udp/tcp 9000/9100 then 9200/9300 and 9400/9500 (needed to set as well my os.exec on each computer to those ports and the regions as well).

16 Aug 12 at 11:08 am

PC rebates for do-it-yourselfers at i live in science land

17 Aug 12 at 8:22 am

PC build project – odds and ends at i live in science land

17 Aug 12 at 8:55 am

PC build project – nite 01 at i live in science land

23 Aug 12 at 7:36 am

Ener’s VW computer project update at i live in science land

29 Aug 12 at 9:53 pm

taking the PC building plunge at i live in science land

30 Aug 12 at 10:44 am