In this episode, we're installing the motherboard.
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to more of the Hands-On PC Build, that's right.
We've got an exciting episode for you today.
In fact, this is the day we get to install our motherboard.
So fun, exciting times to be had by all.
However, before we get too excited about things,
one of the things that I want you to make sure that you do,
we've got to talk a little bit about the case,
and one of the ways that you can protect the motherboard
from actually touching the case and grounding out.
So let's look here at the bench here, a bird's eye view.
You're going to see that what we did ahead of time
is we've got the case open and you're going to notice
that there are a couple of these points here.
And then a couple of these screw holes
are actually missing what are called standoffs.
And that is an uncommon thing.
It's kind of very common that these cases
will fit slight variations of the ATX standard there.
Forgot the acronym, for instance, like extended ATX.
Ours didn't need these, so we went ahead, remove them ahead of time.
But we have six standoffs left.
And to kind of see, if we look at the tech cam here,
you can kind of see how these standoffs work.
They actually raise up, they keep the motherboard
raised up off the sidewall of the case.
And that's going to be something that's very, very important
because we don't want the bottom of the motherboard
and all the solder points to actually touch the side of the case
or it's going to ground out, and unfortunately, it's going to arc
and it's going to short circuit and it's going to cause damage
to the motherboard, and we certainly don't want that.
Another thing I'll say too if we take a look here is that the fan
that we had was actually on the back of the case, the intake fan,
and well, it was getting in the way of the back panel
being able to seat in there fully.
So I went ahead and just took it off
so that we can sit our motherboard in here a little bit easier
and not have to worry about this fan.
So I'm just going to go ahead and I'm going to set this to the side.
And what do you say we go ahead
and we lay our motherboard down inside of this case?
Now here, as I go to install and seat the motherboard here,
I'm just going to very gently lay it down inside of the case here,
and we're going to go ahead and kind of just arrange it.
And if we look at the tech cam here,
you're going to see that the back I/O panel
actually comes into view and that's what we want here.
We want to make sure that that back panel slides right in.
And this is one of the beauties about the ATX standard
is that it should slide into place fairly easy.
And when that happens, that allows us the ability to go ahead
and just, well, the next step, screw these motherboards down
and the mounting points, and it lines up
all of those mounting points, and they should line up pretty darn well.
So we've got our case or our motherboard already laid down here.
Now, what do you say, we're going to go ahead
and we're going to put some of the screws in?
And I'm going to use some of our handy-dandy lights here
that we had beforehand.
So I'm going to turn them on because, well,
it gets kind of dark in here, and in these cases,
it gets kind of hard to see and we want you to be able to see
what we're doing here.
So what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to take the first screw
and we're going to put it in the mounting point back here
and just take your time, just kind of like you maybe seen
in the power supply episode.
If they don't line right up,
just kind of move the motherboard around a little bit
and they should slide right into place.
You should be okay.
And again, you can see I'm going to probably have to move
the motherboard around a little bit.
I will tell you that when you screw these in,
don't screw them in too tight, you don't want to do that.
We'll go ahead and put in the next one
because you don't want to crack the motherboard,
but at the same time, you want to use
all of the standoffs that you have available to you
because this prevents vibration in the case.
So I'm going to go ahead and just screw this one down.
And we'll get that locked down into place.
And then we've got a couple more mounting points right here,
so I'll just finish that.
We're going to go ahead and do the next one here.
And the good thing is this iFixit kit that I'm using,
the screws kind of stick to it now.
It isn't magnetic.
We want to be careful with anything that magnets
around anything inside of your case or it would defeat
the purpose of having your anti-static straps on, wrist straps on.
And we've got a couple more here.
So I'm going to do the one.
It's actually kind of…
let me pull the CPU fan out of the way.
We haven't connected that yet
because we're going to do that in a connections episode
when we get all of our connections going and connect it down.
So we're going to take the next one
and we'll go ahead and screw this one down.
And that's four out of the six.
We've got two to go and these are actually down here
on the other side of the motherboard here.
And I can't stress this enough,
make sure you use all of the mounting points for your case.
That is important because if you don't do that, well, again,
it tends to lead to vibration that could cause damage.
And the other thing I can say, too,
is don't leave any unused standoffs.
You want to take them out.
If they're not meant for your motherboard, do not leave them in there.
It looks like I dropped a screw.
I'll take care of that and we'll get that out of there
once we get the other screw in place.
So last one here to go and we'll get this one screwed in
and we'll screw that down, and there we go.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, it didn't take really that much.
It's as simple as that to get your motherboard installed.
We've got all of our mount points ready to go.
And well, if we take a look here, we've got it installed.
We've actually installed our motherboard,
we've got all of the mounting points are lined up,
that's what we need.
Didn't really take that much.
Again, don't force it.
You certainly don't want to break your motherboard in any way,
you don't want to crack anything.
So just be patient with it,
make sure you've got all those mounting points in those standoffs
so you don't get grounding,
and that's how you install your motherboard.
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