USB cable goes into the USB hole (doesn’t work turn it around)…USB cable goes into the USB hole (still doesn’t want to work you just didn’t want to fiddle enough the first time)…while I’m quite proficient at building computers (haven’t bought an off the shelf one in a few decades) saying it looks like it goes where it says it does doesn’t always work for beginners. Also the colours were for the end user not the builder, green being the speaker output? Not the sound card installation.
Sorry for spoiling the joke but that’s gotta be what this comic was meant for. There’s no coloured indicators on the inside are there? Maybe I overlooked them cause I just know where they go, cause I never wanted to fry a new board.
Yeah, my current (aging) motherboard also has gotchas like that you have to choose in the bios where to allocate PCIe lanes, so you end up not being able to use some of the SATA drive connections if you want to use both M.2 slots. And there’s the thing about putting the RAM sticks in the right slots to run in dual channel mode. And the switches and LED connectors for the case are all just random 2mm header pins in a clump, so you have to look up how the cables are supposed to tetris in there.
I’m not saying it’s challenging; it really is pretty straightforward. But it’s definitely not just “that’s right! it goes in the square hole!” level stuff.
Then there was mine that you had to put the M.2 in the second slot not the first or it would share bandwidth with the GPU making the GPU only run on 8 instead of 16 lanes. To make it less clear they put the extra cooling for the M.2 on the one you shouldn’t use!
The case connections are always the worst for me, mean maybe there’s some standard and if you’re not old you can read the tiny print on the board…but I always end up following the manual to be sure. Especially the cases with the single + or - for the device ugh out of all things that aren’t standardized why is it the damn case connections?
Actually out of my decades of doing computers that’s the part that makes me wonder if the computer will turn on when I press the button first level alone the HDD activity light going properly. I couldn’t care less about that but I did like watching it to know my computer was doing something in the 90s.
USB cable goes into the USB hole (doesn’t work turn it around)…USB cable goes into the USB hole (still doesn’t want to work you just didn’t want to fiddle enough the first time)…while I’m quite proficient at building computers (haven’t bought an off the shelf one in a few decades) saying it looks like it goes where it says it does doesn’t always work for beginners. Also the colours were for the end user not the builder, green being the speaker output? Not the sound card installation.
Sorry for spoiling the joke but that’s gotta be what this comic was meant for. There’s no coloured indicators on the inside are there? Maybe I overlooked them cause I just know where they go, cause I never wanted to fry a new board.
But I thought this was a slot for X?
Yeah, my current (aging) motherboard also has gotchas like that you have to choose in the bios where to allocate PCIe lanes, so you end up not being able to use some of the SATA drive connections if you want to use both M.2 slots. And there’s the thing about putting the RAM sticks in the right slots to run in dual channel mode. And the switches and LED connectors for the case are all just random 2mm header pins in a clump, so you have to look up how the cables are supposed to tetris in there.
I’m not saying it’s challenging; it really is pretty straightforward. But it’s definitely not just “that’s right! it goes in the square hole!” level stuff.
Then there was mine that you had to put the M.2 in the second slot not the first or it would share bandwidth with the GPU making the GPU only run on 8 instead of 16 lanes. To make it less clear they put the extra cooling for the M.2 on the one you shouldn’t use!
Not colour labels on the inside but actual labels on the plugs (cable) & sockets (motherboard), especially for the case LEDs and buttons.
The case connections are always the worst for me, mean maybe there’s some standard and if you’re not old you can read the tiny print on the board…but I always end up following the manual to be sure. Especially the cases with the single + or - for the device ugh out of all things that aren’t standardized why is it the damn case connections?
Actually out of my decades of doing computers that’s the part that makes me wonder if the computer will turn on when I press the button first level alone the HDD activity light going properly. I couldn’t care less about that but I did like watching it to know my computer was doing something in the 90s.
Case connections are annoying but typically (it’s been a while for me) standardized enough that all plugs fit on the board…