Computer repair/assembly in Etobicoke?

[Thomas Milne]

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Lennart Sorensen <
lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

I can't believe the difference in speed between this Sempron and my old P4.
Jeez, this is the lowest of the low of the AMD64...


>
> > Many thanks for the walkthrough :)
>
> No problem.
>
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