How did the first computer you built turn out

My first actual build and not upgrade was a k6-2 400 mhz.
Went fine, although my video card(voodoo3) didn't like win98 much.

first comp i built...

hmm...

I guess that'd be my current gaming rig (lol) - processor and dvd drive from an old dell, everything else was new... of course, now its like 3-5 years old... about time for another one. Its a Pentium 4 (Northwood) 2.8GHz (OC'ed to 3.09) with a Radeon X1600 Pro AGP (512MB) and 1.5GB of ddr400 ram. it started with just a single 60GB PATA drive, but nows it running on a 200GB SATA, 160GB SATA, and 160GB PATA...

Changed a lots of parts before my first build. This first one was in 2001. The Sata was just coming out (or not long before) Had a hard time configuring the Bios for my Raid setup, unless that, everything worked fine.

Flawlessly - once I worked out which way round and up the flopppy cable went. That took like an hour though. Now I can strip and rebulild anything in under 45 minutes from scratch to power up.

My favourite computer thing was programming. I coded a new database and facilities management system for a Buddhist centre I lived and worked at. I was importing data from over 30 separate foxpro databases on a mac into one access database on a pc. I wrote my first atempt at a piece of code to do the job I had thought complex and it was nine lines long. I certainly didn't expect what happened next: after trying it on a sample of 100 records where it peformed without fault I tried it on the entire database schema and it worked first pass. Imported and merged around 18,000 separate entries from foxpro records into approx 4,000 access records in one database in about 15 minutes. Now thats nice. I'd set aside two days for getting that right. All it took was two cigarettes instead. And there were less than 30 records it failed on that I had to recreat manually. :smoker:



Matthew

My first computer build makes a great little stand for my joystick next to my desk.

New Modders Challenge No 859: An identical pile of hardware for each participant, an OS disk and a start gun:

First one to play a game of solitaire on the machine they built is the winner.

:D

lolz my first compi eva fully built was a old arse Pentium..... didnt work too well...
i had no experience inside of a case.... and i decided to plug the comp lock plug into the wrong jumper...... it wasnt too pleased with that.... saw flames and smoke...... was kinda amusing lolz

the first system I ever built was a source of great stress and tension for me...and even to this day I wait in anticipation to make sure that everything posts ok. I use to be afraid to even touch a computer...now I can't stop..:>

My first build is sort of the one im using now (only parts that havent changed are the case monitor and speakers). I assembled it on the floor of my family room,which made my mom so happy :rolleyes:. When i installed that 775 socket CPU there was a loud crack and i swore i snapped my $300 proc in half, but when i hauled it upstairs crossed my fingers and pushed the power button ill be damned if it didnt post the first try.

lets see....it ran perfect actually. I was surprised and felt quite accomplished.

till about 5 monthes later the heatsink fell off the proc while it was on an busted the ram and fried the proc and then proceeding to fall on top of the vid card breaking that too... (It was one of those bigass coolermaster copper heatsinks...)