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Building what is "essentially" a new computer, have most of the parts, just waiting on the RAM, so as anxious as I am to get cracking, I thought I'd at least put together what I could for the moment. I however have never dealt with a motherboard install before.
This has nothing to do with the cords and wires, I'll figure that one out. This is a much more basic problem.
So I figured out where all the screws and **** were meant to go on the motherboard, found all the corresponding holes in the case and put risers in those. Simple, straightforward.
But here's where computer hardware always ****s with me. Firstly, the cover that protects all the sockets that contain USB ports and audio plugs and crap has these useless extraneous metal tabs that try pushing the motherboard back further into the case like springs. I have to fight them to even TRY aligning the motherboard properly. But that only amplifies my main problem: The Goddamn screw-ports on the board can never 100% align with the risers. I've tried about 20 times now.
You'd think that managing to fasten one screw in one corner and another screw in another corner would ensure the thing was flush, but computer hardware is designed to be SLIGHTLY off so you have to worry about snapping something in half because you're worried you're going to have to bend a board or screw something so tight it that something breaks.
Either way, for whatever reason, the top set of screws don't even take. They're at a higher elevation and have to be pressed down to meet the risers for some reason, and the screws won't fasten, they just spin like they've been stripped. I don't even get it, it doesn't seem physically possible for this to be an issue. Every PC building tutorial I've ever seen shows some jackass installing a whole motherboard in less than a minute, casually, like it were nothing. But I have to keep suffering with this nonsensical garbage.
Point is, I'm exhausted from trying this over and over, I'm terrified I'm eventually going to nick one of the board's capacitors on a side of the case and make it inoperable and I just plain can't see how I can do it.
Any advice? At all?
This has nothing to do with the cords and wires, I'll figure that one out. This is a much more basic problem.
So I figured out where all the screws and **** were meant to go on the motherboard, found all the corresponding holes in the case and put risers in those. Simple, straightforward.
But here's where computer hardware always ****s with me. Firstly, the cover that protects all the sockets that contain USB ports and audio plugs and crap has these useless extraneous metal tabs that try pushing the motherboard back further into the case like springs. I have to fight them to even TRY aligning the motherboard properly. But that only amplifies my main problem: The Goddamn screw-ports on the board can never 100% align with the risers. I've tried about 20 times now.
You'd think that managing to fasten one screw in one corner and another screw in another corner would ensure the thing was flush, but computer hardware is designed to be SLIGHTLY off so you have to worry about snapping something in half because you're worried you're going to have to bend a board or screw something so tight it that something breaks.
Either way, for whatever reason, the top set of screws don't even take. They're at a higher elevation and have to be pressed down to meet the risers for some reason, and the screws won't fasten, they just spin like they've been stripped. I don't even get it, it doesn't seem physically possible for this to be an issue. Every PC building tutorial I've ever seen shows some jackass installing a whole motherboard in less than a minute, casually, like it were nothing. But I have to keep suffering with this nonsensical garbage.
Point is, I'm exhausted from trying this over and over, I'm terrified I'm eventually going to nick one of the board's capacitors on a side of the case and make it inoperable and I just plain can't see how I can do it.
Any advice? At all?