Shuri's fight against the bad quality computer case.

[KodiaX987]

Today, I spent three hours building a computer.

It wasn't a very complicated computer. A mobo, the CPU, the RAM, a hard drive and an optical drive. The power supply was even already in place.

However, this was without accounting for a case made by the devil in person.

I set up the mobo on the side and verify that it's working properly. Next is to put the little placement screws that go between the mobo and the case.

Me: ...Well, fuck me!
Joe: What?
Me: Stupid asses didn't even pack in enough screws for the mobo placement!
Joe: What? That doesn't work!

Indeed, we have seven holes in the mobo, but only five screws to work with. We decide to work with the top ones and closest to the CPU, since we won't put anything in the PCI slots.

Me: Strange, that doesn't fit. Hey Joe, can you check for me and see if I'm all in the right holes here?
Joe: Well, yeah, that's where the placement screws go, as far as I can see. Why? What's wrong?
Me: Well, I screwed in that part of the mobo, see? Now, if I move it this way to put in the other screw, then that hole doesn't fit over there. And vice versa.
Joe: Hang on a minute, let me fiddle with that...

...

Joe: ...Holy shit. What kind of crap case is this?
Me: You tell me, I didn't choose the damn thing.
Joe: Here, gimme a few screws... I guess we'll put one here... and one here... That's pretty much all we can muster.

Three screws. Three screws holding a mobo that has seven holes for that purpose. But the case is so badly made that it's not possible to align the holes all together with the casing.

Me: ...LED incompatibility?
Joe: What now?
Me: Case's jack: three pins. LED plug: two pins.
Joe: Haha! Fuck it! No power LED for her then!

Now the optical drive.

Me: Wait... A single IDE channel? That's gonna complicate things.

I have to put that drive at the very bottom of the available slots but...

*bump*

Huh?

*Bump, bump*

I can't put it there. The inner portion of the casing is taking up a bit of space on that lower slot, preventing me from inserting anything there!

OK, how about the just-above-bottom slot?

*slide*

*bump!*

Me: Ah SHIT!
Joe: Uh-oh!
Me: Check this out!

I show him the optical drive hitting the mobo halfway into the slot.

Joe: Wow, just what kind of...
Me: The other slot, the other slot! Man, this is gonna be a tight fit.

I screw in the optical drive, and then go for the hard drive. I have to put it where the floppy drive would usually go, due to lack of length on the IDE cable.

Me: This isn't a casing. It's more like a puzzle where I have to place each piece in a specific order. Now, to unseat the RAM.
Joe: Wait, what?!
Me: I can't slide the hard disk into place because the RAM is in the way! And so's the heat sink?

*chunk*
*chunk*
*flip*

Joe: Is this thing for real?!

*shove*

Me: God, this thing needs Jig-A-Loo. Can't put the damn thing in its slot like it's supposed to.

*PUNCH*

*slide*

*flip*
*click*
*click*

Me: There we go. Let's just hope she doesn't need a floppy drive.
Joe: This case is utter shit... HEY! You're bleeding!
Me: What?! So the fucker bites too?
Joe: I just... whatever. Good God, just how the hell did you twist the IDE cable?
Me: You have a better idea? Right now, the setup gives me only a ballsac's hair's width of extra space. Had the drives been that much farther apart, the whole setup would've been impossible.
Joe: Just close the case and call it quits.
Me: No no no! Gimme the camera, I'm taking a picture.
Joe: Are you serious?!
Me: I am taking a God damn picture of this devilish shit-ass case that gave me so much trouble!

*footsteps*

Boss: What the hell are you people taking a picture for?
Me: Man, you have no idea what we just went through with that case.
Boss: I see that. Your knuckle's bleeding.
Me: I know. Guess whose courtesy.
Boss: Does it work, at least?
Me: Yeah... So long as we don't use a floppy drive, or try to insert any PCI cards, or try to change the hard drive or DVD drive.
Boss: And the rear panel, for the mobo's plugs? Where did it go?
Me: We totaled it in the process.
Joe: Boss, we tell you, this case is utter shit.

And I have a second computer with the exact same parts to build tomorrow.

Joe: But I don't get it! The box says we should have 16 inches on depth, so why was the optical drive hitting the mobo?
Me: Don't ask me.
Joe: OK hang on... The case itself is 14 inches deep but the box says 16 inches, so where the hell did they find those two extra inches?
Boss: ...I just found out. 16 inches is the depth of the BOX containing the case!



<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: KodiaX987 on 2007-08-06 20:21 ]</font>

[Shiryuu]

Indeed, we have seven holes in the mobo, but only five screws to work with.
Did you pick the right case? Motherboards and cases have certain specifications that have to match.

Case's jack: three pins. LED plug: two pins.
You actually only need 2. Just plug it in and it'll run fine.



<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Shiryuu on 2007-08-06 20:14 ]</font>

[Siyamak]

heh, reminds me of the time I had to take a part a compaq to get to the damn hard drive. Had to first take out the entire chasis (and thus all the cables as well,) then take out the optical drive and the floppy drive, so I could go through a two small holes on metal plates to reach the screw that was holding the hardrive in, one that was seperating the optical drive from the outside and one seperating it from the hardrive. I, however, did not have a screwdriver the width of an optical drive with another inch on it, and proceeded to us tiny ass screwdriver where the optical drive once was and looking through the tiny hole on the outside plait to see the screw. I had to tilt the chassis to get the screw out once that was done. It was a bitch getting it back in with the new drive I swapped in. Finally, reversed the whole process and got it back together. Then guess what, I HAD TO FUCKING FDO IT AGAIN. The new hardrive was a failed one (we have a bunch of harddrives, but no one has a clue which fail and which don't.)

[amtalx]

Sounds like you need a full tower my friend.

[DurakkenX]

the case could suck like you say, but it is more likely you have the wrong format case...

[ABDUR101]

Exactly why I always went with fulltower cases and made sure anything I bought would fit to the case; fuck anything else, right in the ear.

[Axispoint]

I had a HP computer for a little while that the case on it required a diagram to take apart, because otherwise, you weren't gonna figure it out. And what sucked is I needed to take it apart to look at the harddrive, because it had evidentally gone bad. I had two harddrives and the other one I was going to hook up and try. I couldn't run the computer to see how to get the case off, so I ended up using my Dreamcast to go to their site and find the diagram to take the case apart. I finally got it off, did some switching around on the drives, then somehow got it back together and it worked just fine after that, but it's irritating when a case is that hard to get off (I had a hard time with my mom's computer, too, which is a Gateway...the handle that was supposed to take the case off didn't work until I took a knife to it...used the knife to basically move the thing so it would actually work...it fixed it, but I was irritated by the time I got done, not to mention I had to get a diagram for it as well...that's why my current computer is custom build, as I hate those cases those companies like Gateway and HP do...don't know if Dell's are terrible or not for that).

[DurakkenX]

Dells are pretty bad too... what they do is they put the mobo in and then they plaace all the components and then they put a huge ass fan and pathway thing to the air vent which covers the entire top section of the case with only like .5-1 inch between that and the drive. It also extends to between 1/2 and 3/4 the size of the mobo from top to bottom v.v

All the drives also are screwed in with hex screws AND they are behind the side of the case so you can't take it out either...to get the CD out i literally had to shatter the case.

[Feelmirath]

On 2007-08-07 10:20, DurakkenX wrote:
to get the CD out i literally had to shatter the case.

That's the part I enjoyed doing when I was building this computer XP

[Nai_Calus]

My mother once took a Hewlett-Packard in to Best Buy for repairs(This was before the Geek Squad, when BB was only moderately shitty instead of entirely shitty). The guy at the desk opened the case and swore. Mini-tower crammed so full you couldn't see the motherboard. Cooling consisted of a heatsink and the power supply fan, on an 900MHz AMD Athlon. I don't need to tell you how it eventually died. I had to destroy the case to get the hard drive out. I found diagrams, but they instructed me to remove screws that didn't exist from holes that didn't exist.

Your piece of shit, Shuri, reminds me of that blighted pile of garbage. Now, where's that picture? http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wacko.gif

(Say what you will about Sony's fucking proprietary hardware, and I'll probably agree with you, but at least they can design cases. The computer I'm using is a joy to work on, not that it's ever *needed* working on, but putting the HP's HD in here was the most straight-forward thing I've ever done on a computer.)

[Para]

Reminds me when I was putting together my mobo mATX into an old generation case that wasn't designed in mind for mATX mobos..

[DLShAdOw]

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