Mentor Log #2 March 2, 2013

Individual Time: 10 Hours
Running Total: 14 hours

What a CRAZY day for me. My parts came in the mail today and I was SIKED! After saving up so much for them, I finally got the chance to build my own PC. My mentor came over. I had arranged all the parts. We carefully opened them all up and got ready to build. Putting the CPU cooler onto the actual CPU was the hardest part. It was really scary. My mentor took the time to explain how everything flows from the power supply. We spent some time putting everything together and doing a test run outside of the PC. When it booted up for the first time, I was really happy. After that, we put everything into the actual case. We booted again and nothing. I was really sad, thinking that something went wrong. But really, we only forgot to plug the 8 pin adapter all the way in. We laughed afterwards. We spent about 2 hours managing the cables. We got zip ties to make it look better and neater. After that, my mentor left. It was my turn to do my favorite part, installing the operating system. It took a while, but I finally got to a desktop. I started organizing everything, and installing necessary programs. All that's missing now is my Solid State Drive and the Graphics Card. Those are to come later.

So far, I'm really happy and super excited to finish it with the SSD and the GPU which are yet to come. So far, so good. :D