<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><div style="" class=""><span style="" class="">Hi everyone,</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br style="" class=""><span style="" class="">Is there any way I can get some help from someone in the group to help/guide me in getting my new rig together? I would be so very thankful!!! </span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br style="" class=""><span style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px;
font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">I've _finally_ been able to buy the components for my brand new desktop computer. While I've messed around inside already built units a tiny bit in the past, I've never built a computer from scratch before. Because of that I'm a bit ... ...uhgm... ...a whole lot intimidated by the process. I do _NOT_ want to take _ANY_ chances on frying and/or blowing anything up!<br style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;
background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">If it is possible that someone in the group can help me out with this, I can bring everything needed to the next meeting or to IHOP (which is closer to where I live). But, all I have in the way of a monitor are those great big and heavy CRTs. I would definitely need help getting that from my vehicle to where the build would take place and back if we have time for dealing with software.<br style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span
style="" class="">Which brings up another question that I have: When is the next meeting? I looked at the site and it shows that there are 3 weeks between this past week's meeting on Apr 15 and the next meeting on May 7. Is that correct or just a typo? <br style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br style="" class=""></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">Anyway, for OSes to be installed on my new rig, I did extremely begrudgingly buy Windows 7 to dual boot with PCLinuxOS. In addition to needing help with getting all the hardware components together into one unit, I also need
help partitioning the 64 Gb solid state master hard drive so that the two OSes can reside on it. I have a 1 TB SATA hard drive to be the slave for my files to reside on. This way I can work with all of my files from both OSes while I learn how to handle Linux enough so that I won't have to worry about having to buy Windows again when 7 reaches the point where XP is now.</span><br style="" class=""><span style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br style="" class=""><span style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">Again, any and all help that anyone may
possibly be able give me with my 'project' will be extremely appreciated!</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br style="" class=""><span style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">Sincerely,</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">Julie</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida
Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">(Long lost fellow[ette] LUGette)<br style="" class=""></span></div><div style="" class=""> </div><div class="" style="FONT-STYLE:italic;FONT-FAMILY:arial;"><span class="" style="COLOR:rgb(128,0,0);"><span class="" style="COLOR:rgb(192,0,0);"><span class="" style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold;"></span></span></span><hr style="" class=""><hr style="" class=""><hr style="" class=""><font style="" class="" size="2"><span class="" style="COLOR:rgb(128,0,0);"><span class="" style="COLOR:rgb(192,0,0);"><span class="" style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold;"></span></span></span></font></div><span class="" style="font-style: italic;"><font style="" class="" size="2"><span class="" style="COLOR:rgb(192,0,0);"><span class="" style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold;">Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.</span> ~ Black Elk, Oglala Lakota Holy Man:</span> <a style="" class=""
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