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PH PC BUILD PROGRESS

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✅ Acquire all parts

✅ Open and organize all components

✅ Install Motherboard

✅ Install 500 GB SSD M.2

✅ Install RAM 8GB x 2

✅ Install GPU Expansion

✅ Paste & Mount CPU Cooler

✅ Mount 2x CPU Fans to cooler

✅ Connect CPU fans to M.Board

✅ Mount 2x Front Cover Fans

✅ Connect F.Cover Fans to M.Board

✅ WHY SO MANY FANS??

✅ Mount and daisy chain surprise fan

✅ Connect Under-mounted fan

✅ Mount Power Supply

✅ Solve world hunger

✅ Connect 24 Pin ATX Cable from Power Supply

✅ Connect 8 Pin ESPV12 Cable from PSU to CPU

✅ Connect SATA from HD to MB

✅ Connect HD to PSU

✅ Connect PCIe from PSU to GPU

✅ Connect Front Panel IO to M.Board

✅ Connect Audio to M. Board

❌ Get absolutely lit on Costco beer

✅ Connect Front Panel USB to MB

✅ Power up

✅ Accidentally plug the monitor into the Motherboard instead of the GPU

✅ Access Bios

✅ Verify all connections in Bios

✅ Resolve long-standing PTSD trauma

✅ Try to figure out why I can’t install Windows 10

✅ Realize BIOS was from 2017

🫠 Windows could not prepare the computer to boot into the next phase of installation. To install Windows, restart the installation.

✅ Download newest BIOS version

✅ Attempt to flash BIOS

🫠 Windows tells me USB doesn’t have BIOS files on it???

🫠 Find multiple “solutions” on forums that don’t work

✅ Reach out to MSI Technical Support

🫠 Back and forth with MSI’s useless ‘Support’

❌ Install Windows 10

❌ Admin Account Setup

❌ Download Steam

❌ Download Big Chungus 10 for Wii

❌ Game Time.