✅ 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.