Computer repair/assembly in Etobicoke?

Wed Jun 1 21:05:40 UTC 2011

On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 04:29:04PM -0400, Thomas Milne wrote:
> Jeez, yeah, I see what you mean. About it being bad. But I guess if you get
> it wrong it just means the computer won't turn on, right?

In most cases yes.  If you connect the reset button to where the LED
should be then you are shorting something when you hit the button,
but since there should a resistor in the circuit with the LED output,
it probably won't really do anything bad.  It isn't really very hard to
do, it's just a lousy design.

> Okay, so THAT's what that is. Yes, I have that, and now I see that in the
> manual as well. My mistake was that I looked in the case manual for where to
> put the wires that are connected to the case, but I should have been looking
> in the M2V manual.

Yes.  The motherboard manual covers that.

> > I guess my case doesn't have a speaker. The only wires I have are Power SW,
> Power LED +, Power LED -, and HDD LED. Never even thought about a speaker. I
> don't think I'll miss the beep.

Some cases have them, some don't anymore.  If the case doesn't have one,
don't worry about it.  Reset switches seem pretty obsolete too.

> Yup, got that. Once I overcame my fear of destroying the motherboard (it's
> old), I got it in there okay. It fits so _exactly_, the case manufacturer is
> to be commended (Antec). I think I've got pretty much everything hooked up
> now, but I just realized I'm missing one very important thing: thermal
> paste. D'oh! I'll have to wait before I try booting this thing up.

Yeah you do want some of that.

I mainly get worried when handling the $300+ CPUs wiht the new sockets.
I think the worst I have handled was a $2500 fiber channel PCI card.
Fortunately no one told me the price until after I was done installing it.

> I'm putting in a Sempron (remember those?) processor, that way if I do
> totally blow it and fry everything, I haven't lost as much.

The sempron is new enough that at worst it will turn itself off if it
got too hot.

> Many thanks for the walkthrough :)

No problem.

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