Building a Computer in Four Easy Steps (and Six Difficult Ones)

The bits for my computer were finally delivered yesterday. As this is the second time in about a month that I've built a computer, I thought I'd record the adventure and turn it into a photo guide of sorts. Who knows, someone might find it mildly interesting.

( Building a Computer in 10 Easy Steps )

I am an onion

I have just spent five hours installing and uninstalling the AC97 sound drivers from my computer, trying to get so much as a breath of sound from the plain, normal stereo speakers. Now I've accidentally found out that they work if I set the expected output to 6-channel Dolby 5.1 and plug the speakers into the Microphone In socket, whereupon the left speaker plays the centre channel and the right one gets the noise from the subwoofer. It's clearly bonkers.