Here’s the main points I had problems with when I built the PC.

- forgot the IO connectors backplate
- forgot (once) to plug power supply into graphics card
- forgot the 4-way block connector to the motherboard
- had the bios misconfigured (IDE off – well I have SATA)
- had a hard time getting CDs to boot (IDE, didn’t burn as ISO etc etc)
- had a really hard time with the cabling from the front panel to main board

It took a couple of nights to get all the bugs ironed out, but it’s running like a champ now on the default settings.

Linux reports ~4900 bogoMips, not sure if that is any good or not. I expect to get round to trying to optimise the memory settings etc., once I have my OS setup stable and working.