Number6.2's Journal: Building a PC from Scratch, Finale

OR: How to screw up a perfectly running PC. Just add your brother (sorry, Rich).

The PC I've been writing about in the last few articles has been in operation for about a month and a half now. After the mystery of the power supply was solved the rest of the machine went to gether pretty easily.

The hard drives were a bit of a pain. Remember, kids. You have to make sure the cabeling is right in addition to the HD jumpers. At least that was less of a mystery than the power supply.

So we had this at the end: A brand friggin' new 2GHz ASUS MB with 1/2 G of memory, two 40G hard drives, a video capture card, and a DVD burner. I turned this over to my brother Rich to use as a "media" PC, since he's the one with the video camera.

Well, I made the camera dual boot: Windows 98 and Fedora Core 2. Everyting worked. I just gave him the caveat that if he was going to do anything with a network, to use Fedora.

Well, my brother has been screwing around with PC's as long as I have, and he tried to make 98 talk to his printer. Oops. Say goodbye to WinBlows 98.

I love my brother, but sometimes I just want to kill him.