The silver around the motherboard standoffs is there for conductivity. The purpose of the standoffs is to properly ground the motherboard to your case. If you scratched one it doesn't really matter functionally, only aesthetically. That said, you should definitely be careful when handling the parts, especially with regard to static electricity. Always touch the PC case before anything else (to ground yourself), and NEVER work on a computer with the power supply plugged into the wall. Keep in mind, even with the power supply is unplugged its capacitors store enough electricity to give you quite a jolt so, as will all electronics, be careful what you're poking with your screw driver.Benjamin100 wrote:Well shit.
I was trying to line it up with the input cover AND the screw spots, and the thing scratched on the bottom. Looks pretty bad. It scratched one of those silver dots around the hole, and is showing some copper.
Should I just try it out? It looks pretty bad.
Building a Desktop
Moderator: Talkative People
- dandymcgee
- ES Beta Backer
- Posts: 4709
- Joined: Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:24 pm
- Current Project: https://github.com/dbechrd/RicoTech
- Favorite Gaming Platforms: NES, Sega Genesis, PS2, PC
- Programming Language of Choice: C
- Location: San Francisco
- Contact:
Re: Building a Desktop
Falco Girgis wrote:It is imperative that I can broadcast my narcissistic commit strings to the Twitter! Tweet Tweet, bitches!
-
- ES Beta Backer
- Posts: 250
- Joined: Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:37 pm
Re: Building a Desktop
All done.
This is it.
Running Ubuntu.
This is it.
Running Ubuntu.
-
- ES Beta Backer
- Posts: 250
- Joined: Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:37 pm
Re: Building a Desktop
Well, turns out I couldn't go very long without wanting to use some of my old familiar programs on the new desktop. Guess I'll reinstall Ubuntu soon for a dual boot.
- dandymcgee
- ES Beta Backer
- Posts: 4709
- Joined: Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:24 pm
- Current Project: https://github.com/dbechrd/RicoTech
- Favorite Gaming Platforms: NES, Sega Genesis, PS2, PC
- Programming Language of Choice: C
- Location: San Francisco
- Contact:
Re: Building a Desktop
The problem with dual boot is you end up never booting into Linux, lol. I would recommend using one as your host machine and the other as a VM to prevent having to reboot to switch between them. To start, I would put the one you use less often in the VM.Benjamin100 wrote:Well, turns out I couldn't go very long without wanting to use some of my old familiar programs on the new desktop. Guess I'll reinstall Ubuntu soon for a dual boot.
Falco Girgis wrote:It is imperative that I can broadcast my narcissistic commit strings to the Twitter! Tweet Tweet, bitches!
- wtetzner
- Chaos Rift Regular
- Posts: 159
- Joined: Wed Feb 18, 2009 6:43 pm
- Current Project: waterbear, GBA game + editor
- Favorite Gaming Platforms: Game Boy Advance
- Programming Language of Choice: OCaml
- Location: TX
- Contact:
Re: Building a Desktop
Or in my case, never end up booting into Windows, but just end up wasting half or your hard drive space.dandymcgee wrote:The problem with dual boot is you end up never booting into Linux, lol.
The novice realizes that the difference between code and data is trivial. The expert realizes that all code is data. And the true master realizes that all data is code.
-
- ES Beta Backer
- Posts: 250
- Joined: Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:37 pm
Re: Building a Desktop
Wish I had read these before. Been trying to install Ubuntu all day. Tricky mainly because I cannot see the Windows partition in Ubuntu installation. Very annoying. Shows it all as free space.
- bbguimaraes
- Chaos Rift Junior
- Posts: 294
- Joined: Wed Apr 11, 2012 4:34 pm
- Programming Language of Choice: c++
- Location: Brazil
- Contact:
Re: Building a Desktop
Are you sure you didn't erase the whole disk at some point in the installation? The installer is very careful to warn you, but sometimes it's just a bad day I've never had this problem with the ubuntu installer (or any linux installer).
edit: anyway, it is better than the windows installer, which doesn't give a shit about the other partitions and just claims the hard drive all for itself (and the damned "recovery partition").
On the dual boot subject: pretty much what the others said. Install linux, fire up a vm/wine when needed and never look back.
edit: anyway, it is better than the windows installer, which doesn't give a shit about the other partitions and just claims the hard drive all for itself (and the damned "recovery partition").
On the dual boot subject: pretty much what the others said. Install linux, fire up a vm/wine when needed and never look back.
- dandymcgee
- ES Beta Backer
- Posts: 4709
- Joined: Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:24 pm
- Current Project: https://github.com/dbechrd/RicoTech
- Favorite Gaming Platforms: NES, Sega Genesis, PS2, PC
- Programming Language of Choice: C
- Location: San Francisco
- Contact:
Re: Building a Desktop
Usually *nix is exceptionally more talented at recognizing partitions than Windows. Ubuntu will let you mount an NTFS partition just fine, but getting Windows to acknowledge a ext3 partition is damn near impossible. If Linux says it's free space, I would lean toward the above and assume you wiped the disk. If you had no important data on the Windows partition it's a minor inconvenience for you to learn from.
Falco Girgis wrote:It is imperative that I can broadcast my narcissistic commit strings to the Twitter! Tweet Tweet, bitches!