no computer build is complete without a little blood sacrifice to the computer gods.

[hobbit709]

Just finished assembling a new computer for my little brother since his old HP died.
Athlon II 1075T 3.0GHz X6 cpu, 4Gb RAM, 1 TB hard drive, DVD-RW, front panel card reader, Nvidia GT220 graphics card. Windows 7 Home Premium X64.

Sliced thumb on edge as I was lifting it up off floor.

[uriel1972]

1. All Hail BACKUP the God of Data Retention.

And UPGRADE the God of Empty Wallets.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

4. Re: The God of Data Retention

About 15 years ago, I went to the computer center at Fermilab, where (at that time) they had 3.5 petabytes of data in three huge tape robots. I asked the director about his backup strategy. He lifted his eyes and said, "O Lord, please let our data be uncorrupted!"

[IDemo]

2. I've assembled over 200 test PC's where I work

I and a co-worker are a branch of the Red Cross.

[BlueJazz]

3. Your brave actions will be rewarded with a brand new >

[uriel1972]

9. $3,000.00 What I could do with that to build a computer now....

Mmmmmmmmmmm.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

12. Dude, when the Incredible Hulk sells you a PC ...

... you better fucking buy it. I don't care if it costs $2999.00.

[RoccoR5955]

5. Yeah, those I have noticed

that the cheaper computer cases have sharp edges. If you spend a few bucks more on a better case, it will have no sharp edges. It's one way that they keep the cost down.

[steve2470]

6. bummer, I've had no blood sacrifices yet but a few gray hairs, yes lol nt

[Gore1FL]

7. I wasted two memory slots once

I had 64MB (LOL) to put in them, but sliced my finger and bled in the slots. As long as I didn't install memory, it worked fine, but cut my memory in half.

[hobbit709]

8. Update: My brother got it delivered by UPS and it works fine.

He's a happy camper.

[StanGr]

10. Don't forget a sacrifice to the dope fairies.

[JohnFred]

11. Blood, sweat but no tears, (yet!)

I've had my fair share of cuts handling computers, new and old, as part of my job.

Most of the time, you don't even know you've cut yourself until you see a few places on the hardware with a little more on them than they should! The cuts tend to be very fine, sharp ones which go unnoticed, due largely to the fact that you happen to hold or press onto the edge of some metal part a little too hard. It's not necessarily true that it's down to cheap casing, either. I've cut myself on HP machines before now, (servers and the like), by inadvertently pushing onto one of the metal edges on the back part of the casing whilst lift them to put them back in their boxes once I'd finished installing and updating.

It doesn't tend to be a problem for the machines, though, as the amount of blood is minimal and tends to dry quickly.

I've just noticed. Is that Bill Bixby in that TRS-80 ad, above? If it is, I hope that machine never made him angry.