So I spent a good part of the weekend putting together my sexy new computer, or rather, I spent a good part of the weekend trying to get my sexy new computer to work.

If you recall, I purchased all of the parts for my new PC piecemeal and did everything myself, which included wiring the case to the motherboard.

After several failed attempts to get the thing to power up, I realized I had misplugged the wires running to the case's front audio plugs.

Once I got the PC to boot-up, I couldn't get the thing to go into Windows XP.

I suspect this is because I'm using the two harddrives from my old PC and that the thing can't figure out all of the new specs, from CPU to memory and graphics card. So I think I'm going to have to reinstall the operating system. But before I do I wanted to run it by you, my reader-experts. What do you think?

Right now the Bios boots up fine, it seems to find everything fine, but when it goes to load windows, the screen just flashes and jumps back to the Bios boot-up screen. If I don't manually turn it off, it will do this forever. Brian Crecente

Ps. How do you like my tidy cabling system?

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