Building the beast - Part 2

So I was going through the joy of building my own PC again, something I promised myself I would not do again although I don't remember why until now...

I check everything is set as it should be and yup its all good... push the big button and nothing :-(

Essentially the system would not post and if your system doesn't post then its usually one of four things. CPU, Graphics Card, PSU or Memory. So Checked the CPU and Gfx card a seated well and removed a stick of Ram and got the system top post. After more testing and even taking the rig up to Kevs house where he generously allowed me to swap stuff around, it seemed that both sticks of ram had given up. So I went through the joys of the RMA process (more on that in a future post).

Once I got the new ram I got the PC up and running and everything installed and it runs sweet as a nut... I even got some help installing XP.

See... even a child can install XP!

This took the best part of 2 weeks to get sorted and THAT is why when I get any more PC's... I'm buying from dell (so I can have different problems).