.. or am i doing sometihng wrong? in all seriousness .. every build, causes problems. am i extremely unfortunate or am i doing something wrong the whole time? Buy motherboard.. seat processor.. thermal paste, heatsink, RAM, put board in case, seat PSU, put drives in case, insert graphics card and pci cards, do case power button and light connections, IDE and SATA drive connections to motherboard and PSU, case and hard drive fans to molexs, PSU to motherboard connections.. Yes.. yes i did just run through what i do, but it seems that somewhere in there is a timebomb. people who have seen my many threads w/ cries for help and general agony will know ..