Re: I am also a Master....

On 03 Dec 2003 12:29:54 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Whreky) wrote:

>drives and such, until he had both his and his son's puters all messed up. (he
>didn't have much luck switching hard drives with XP on them - strangely enough
>with my new board I had no problem, even though I was prepared to do a clean
>install).

One thing you can do, even if the machine won't boot, is to boot off
the XP CD and do a repair install over the existing one.  It will go
through the hardware detection routine again.  I still like to do
clean installs however.

>Anyway, he sent back the boards (Albatron - not too bad of a regular
>board, I may say) and re-did them. Then he called to tell me he saw "magic
>smoke" when he turned on his puter and it fried the mb right below the RAM
>sockets.
> Then he told me that he made sure to use ALL the mounting posts included with
>the case (even the springy stamped-metal ones) so the board would be solidly
>mounted. Think of it- every single spot where you could put in a mounting post
>was filled, even the ones that had no corresponding mounting hole on the board.
>( I can see Poly's aghast grin building) You got it- he shorted the hell outta
>that board.

Doing that is a common mistake, doing it on purpose like that is ...
unusual.  :)

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