Build instructions are as clear as mud.

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I have been working on the machine for a while.  I was able to get what could be done without being grounded yesterday.  Last night I snuck out for both a meal and a power bar.  I wasn't sure I wanted to work on the machine today.  It took a good long time to wake and become functional, longer than I thought.  I finally became aware enough to begin tinkering.

Between what the various devices, including the case, provide, and the various manuals from the manufacturer... it is very difficult to make heads or tails of things.  Beyond, it seems that each device might well be at a different tech level.  For example, perhaps the case has wiring set for a certain sort of sound connection and the motherboard has a different connection.  Neither manual, in this case, is telling me what to do.  The board has a label by what seems to be the sound connection, but doesn't discuss that in the book.  The case manual offers less.  I remember this from the first time, but thought youtube would make this process easier.  So far, not really.  There are some areas youtube does have vids regarding, some it doesn't.

I am building the motherboard outside of the case first.  I have the cpu  and memory in, the larger duel fan cpu cooler in (youtube was great for that... that was a bear, but with advice from some guy I was able to do that in much shorter time, and much easier, that what he and most others would go through without advice).  I have some of the connections for the front panel on, though between the instructions in the booklet and manual vs what they offer at youtube (which are contrary), I am not sure about those.  I am not sure about the pci connection through the front panel either.  That looks like it goes to a sata III, but...  I haven't started tracking that down yet.  I want to make sure I have the front panel right, then work on those odd extras.  I may have to skip the sata to the front panel, at least for now.  With four ssd's and two hybrids, I pretty much have used all of my native sata connections.  I'll bet they make a small pci-e card with additional internal sata connections though?

Not bad, really.  It does help to have a second machine to look things up.  Well, and not have to worry about not being able to hop online, even just to blog out what I am doing.  It can help to have folks know and prey.  Well, and I pulled an update for the bios onto a thumb drive while I was at it.  That may be the best way to get updates.  This machine isn't for online.  Though if I can figure out how to use linux, say, to get on and off, and install/update, I may use it from time to time.  Just keep images, several layers of them, for the machine and be prepared to lose everything in order to get the machine functioning again.  Even with safety arrangements, with a company as big and powerful as Microsoft trying to force us into software we don't want it will be difficult to keep them off my machine.  Fry it all, if need be, and start over.  As often as it takes.

Well, on to a bit more research.  I am guessing some things should be pretty... standard, across brand and type of device.  It's just a matter of finding the information.  They really want you to buy whole systems, especially with MS and probably the government both trying to shove win 10 at us now.  So they may be hiding this sort of information.  I'll more.  Yeah.  I have already looked.  But not quite as specifically so I might have just missed it.  Later.