DOH!!

[Tiuz]

Okay, I'm feeling really dumb and really dissapointed. I dunno how common this is for people new to building computers. I thought I had double checked EVERYTHING but it turns out...somehow..I ordered an imcompatible processor for my machines :( I only hope newegg.com allows for returns/exchanges. Though, I don't have alot of hope after reading some of their FAQ's. If they don't....I have 4 AMD 64 3200+ processors that are AM2 pin type. I'll have to relocate what I paid for them and see if anyone here is interested or ebay em :-(.

I was really looking forward to having my machines up and running this weekend too :(.

[zanthor]

What socket type do you have on the mainboards?? AM2 is the current standard, if you got socket 939 boards those will be hard to find CPU's...

Newegg DOES have a solid return policy, it may cost you a restocking fee but I return stuff there regularly.

[The IT Monkey]

you may want to check into 4 x motherboards that are compatible with what you got too... may be cheaper and the mobo's you got may be easier to unload. my experience in IT is that a mobo goes bad more often the processor.

[Dor]

if you havent opened the processors.......they have a 7 day return policy on cpus if I remem right

[Tiuz]

hrm, okay, so I may not be too bad off. Yeah, I have 939 mobo's. I guess I'm in a pickle no matter what for at least one of either the processor or the mobos. I opened 1 of each. I don't think newegg.com runs Customer Service over the weekend so I'm stuck probably stuck waiting till Monday to get any answers on returns/exchanges. Pushes me probably to next weekend before I get the whole setup done :(

[Slats]

Return your mobos not your processors.

You have good CPU's but need better mobos.

939 is going out and not the current standard.

[Bradster]

Okay, I'm feeling really dumb and really dissapointed. I dunno how common this is for people new to building computers. I thought I had double checked EVERYTHING but it turns out...somehow..I ordered an imcompatible processor for my machines :( I only hope newegg.com allows for returns/exchanges. Though, I don't have alot of hope after reading some of their FAQ's. If they don't....I have 4 AMD 64 3200+ processors that are AM2 pin type. I'll have to relocate what I paid for them and see if anyone here is interested or ebay em :-(.

I was really looking forward to having my machines up and running this weekend too :(.

Happens to the best of us. Not bad for your first PC build from the ground up. Really I wouldn't beat yourself up too bad about it. You got this far didn't ya? Also you know how you can fix it 8). Now you know some of the things the check for the next time. All about learning. Only one wrong part. No one can really fault ya, this is your first time. You did well.

[Runiat]

My first self-built PC almost ended in my house burning down, on my second I electrocuted myself (though not a lethal charge), and my third.. dunno, I've started buying cheap(ish) premades and adding hardware to the worst holes - usually graphics and RAM.

[Bradster]

My first self-built PC almost ended in my house burning down, on my second I electrocuted myself

:lol:

I have a story kind of like that. So back in the days of high school I was in Vo-tech. The instructor had to send a tape to his University showing one of his classes, how he runs it. I guess now that I think about it, something for like a internship. Anyway he asked me to build a computer from the ground up for his class. He wanted me to teach while he ran the camera.

Well Things were going well until I installed the power supply. See back then you had to wire up the power switch. Well this switch the markings were worn and I couldn't see which wires needed to go where. I thought nothing of it. Figure worse that could happen it just wouldn't turn on. Boy was I wrong.

I plugged it in and hit that switch. BOOM!!!!!! I was sitting in a high stool chair fell backwards landed on the floor. I had a coughing fit from the smoke of the power supply. My instructor spent the rest of the class rewinding the tape and replying that seen over and over and over.

I got my revenge plenty of times however. The mild revenge was.... Remember when computer cases had the L.E.D Displays what would display what speed MHZ the computer is? Some people would make those displays say H.I. Well I came up with a GREAT idea. An Idea I've never seen anyone else do. I changed the display before one of his classes. I changed it to F.U. When classes started he turned it on. Everyone started busting out laughing. Finally after half the class was over he got bent out of shape from everyone laughing and demanded to know what’s going on. At that moment he noticed the PC.

Another time I had to repair some C.B equipment, I was good at that and audio. So to test it he had a CB out in his car. He gave me the keys, to go out there and see if we could communicate as a test.

Well I started up his car and moved it to the other side of the building; he had this big ass old yellow caddy. Mean while talking to him on the CB. He had no idea. That was the last class of the day; often I'd stay after and work on projects until he left. So I walked him out. Where the hell is my car?! I parked it right here! I said I found it in the Student lot. He just laughed.

The worst thing I ever did to the guy was shock him with a capacitor. I was safe about it and controlled the charge. I took a giant big ass capacitor and charged it with a variable transformer. That way I wouldn’t charge it to a lethal charge. Just enough to get a good ark :lol:.

He had a metal mug on his desk he used as a pencil cup. I took a drill and made a small hole under the cups handle. Then followed up with a small self tapping screw. I hooked the positive wire to this cup.

He had a metal chair. So I hooked the negative end to this side. I wasn’t sure it was going to work. But as my luck would have it, it was a hot day and I guess the moisture from his ass helped make the connection.

He sat down reached for a pencil and a got one hell of a jolt. It was amazing the class could keep the composure up until that point. We all lost it. Immediately he looked at me “BRAD!!!!!” My reward was sorting the resistor draw for the last three hours. He wouldn’t give me a meter either; I had to do it using the color chart.

One hell of a cool teacher, he was my favorite.