bawxday
Hey Journal

Just so you know, I've been watching mythbusters for almost 24 hours now, and I'm sure that I've seen every episode. Anyway, My plans were to go boxing day shopping with one of my friends because she wants to build a recording studio in her basement, but since all of the music stores were closed on boxing day, we postpwned it to the weekend and I went on a solo mission to Canada Computers. After doing loads of research on christmas day, I decided that a Antec Three Hundred would be the best choice for me since the power supply is mounted near the bottom of the case and won't press against the top of my big ass cooler. Since all of my friends are dicks, It was a solo mission.

As soon as I got to the store I pretty much ran to the back where they keep the cases, snagged the last one, then on my way to the front of the store I saw a guy and his son asking a floorwalker where he could find an Antec 300 and I replied" you're gonna have to pry it from my cold dead hands" and walked to the front of the store. When I took it to a cashier, he asked me how many were left and I said" including this one, just one" and he proceded to curse the world because he wanted to get one, and as an employee he isn't allowed to buy merchandice while on the job, so too slow for him. When I blurted out "why didn't you just pay a friend $5 interest to buy it for you" and the look on his face was priceless. It was sad, shocked, and pissed off at the same time, with a pinch of shame thrown in there for good measure.

I wanted to redo the thermal paste job on my CPU cause I know that mine was fucked up from all of the months of being pushed on by the power supply. A fucking small ass tube that holds like a table spoon of thermal paste was nearly $10 and I nearly jewed my way out of that problem cause my $100 was already dented, but I needed it so I just watched as my money went from $100 to $30. I walked out of there, and this fairly old dude started talking nerd to me about the cost of different products. Normally I would have just brushed this shit off, but he just talked and talked the whole way. Talked about power supplies, ram, motherboards, CPU's videocards, and generally everything that was on sale. The whole experience felt like a fucking infomercial. He even dissed my 1 gb of ram saying that "1gb of ram wouldn't even run Vista" to which I went all L337nux on his ass and he stopped talking to me.

So I got home with my shit, and spent like 10 minutes taking the parts out of my old case, while carefully saving all of the screws. I then popped open my new case on both sides and found a little cardboard box. This box was FULL of TWO sets of screws. One bag was full of motherboard stand offs, and pretty much an abundance of screws, and the second bag was full of just thumb screws. So I dusted everything off, making sure to get all of the nooks and crannies on my cooler and power supply before installing everything. My first problem was that the connector that goes from the power supply to the motherboard was short, so I had it dangling in the case while I installed everything else.

Then more problems emerged. after repasting and installing the CPU fan onto the motherboard and into the case, I realized that the fucking cooler pushes against the cool-ass 140 mm blowhole fan. The..Main..Reason..Why..I..Bought..The..FUCKING.. case in the first place... So I removed the fan reluctantly and realized that I couldn't even mount it onto the top of the case cause the damn fan cover is built into the top of the PC and is raised like a centimeter from the top of the case, preventing the short fan screws from allowing the fan to stay in place. So it sat in the box with my old case while I assembled my new PC. all fo the cards went in, all of the spaghetti went in and was all managed, everything was in order, but when I pressed the power button I got nothing.

I opened the case again, and realized that in my wire-management haste I unplugged the power button. I plugged it back in, turned on the PC, and that's all it did. No beeps, so visual indication that the PC was even on besides the gentle whine of my fans and an eerie blue glow coming from my CPU cooler. I spent HOURS troubling Till the Code Monkey school wolf faggot coolest guy ever with my PC noobness, and after many hours of rebuilding and trouble shooting I just gave up and decided to take the case into the PC place the next day and get him to do it.

Late in the night, the mystery of my fucked up PC was haunting my dreams and preventing me from sleeping, so I asked My new friend Surya if he could help me out, and he said "hey, were you fucking around with the red switch on the back of the power supply?" and my jaw just dropped. I HAD been fucking with it cause it was dusty as hell so I switched it back and forward a couple times; paying no attention to where it was before I started, but then again I couldn't even see what it said before. So after nearly 12 hours of horror, I finally got my PC up and running and I was able to sleep.

Imma split up this one and the next one, cause the next day was kind of a doozie.