The Birth of Herman the Dinosaur

Today, after much hand wringing from anticipation, 5 large boxes arrived, ordered from eBuyer. Expecting bad service as usual from them, I checked the contents twice over as well as cross referencing from my email acknowledgments and a sheet I had made. Once satisfied that all objects were present and accounted for, I went back to the work I was doing originally. But then, I heard them, calling for me … I counted 7 times when I looked longingly at the boxes, tempted to take them out, but I didn’t. I was expecting to take them up to my brother in two weeks time and then they would be assembled. But how would I know the objects were in working condition?

Thus a couple of hours later, having plugged and screwed everything together I had assembled my new PC. The room is a mess, but no matter. The case is a monster, and the motherboard is purple drools. Granted 250Gb is not much of a hard disk and I plan to have more things added, but I like it.

One glitch though, at the end, after assembling the piece, I turned it on, but it wasn’t working, yes the fans worked, but the screen wasn’t showing anything. I ended up working backwards, trying to figure what was wrong. I ended up not finding the answer, but instead got a good wapping from the CPU fan which was quite painful and scratches from the case.

Later when The Stig came by, I left him to it, he didn’t spend more than 2 minutes when he came out and showed me it worked. “What was it?” I asked. He pointed to a socket and then pointed to the booklet. He had RTFM! For those of you interested in the specs of PC:

Herman the Dinosaur AMD Athlon 64Bit 3000+ (includes Thumb killing fan) ECS K8 NVIDIA-Socket 939 NFORCE4-A939 (Pretty Purple Board with 4 sata plugs!) 1GB RAM 250GB HHD DVD DL R/RW/RAM ATI Radeon X800 256M PCI-E Antec SLK1650B Black Tower (12cm Fan!)

I am intending to do some nice upgrades on it, when I get the pocket money , although I wonder whether to give it a feminine touch I should stick a pink ribbon on it … PluRGH! I think not!