Personal Essay

Personal Essay By Stockton Chidester The doorbell rings, i open the door to find several amazon packages all with my suspected computer parts. I call up my brother Brian and tell him. He comes over and we go to his house and build my computer. We get to his house and we start to methodically get the parts out of the car. We go inside, and lay everything out on the table and start to wonder how we are going to get this built. We turn on his playstation and proceed to watch videos on how to get the computer together and on. After some videos we finally get started on the project. We unbox the motherboard and we take a long look at it. We start with the cpu so we grab the thermal paste and we place the cpu on the motherboard. We put the cpu on the motherboard and we see where to put it. We then put a dot of paste onto the cpu and put it in the motherboard. We then grab the fan and the screws and lower that onto the cpu. We screw that in and then move to the ram, it was the easiest part because we just popped it in. now onto the harder part of the build which is the motherboard being screwed into the case and, plugging what seemed one hundred different cord to plug in. After an hour of plugging stuff in we finally get everything plugged in and we try to plug it into the socket. We get plug it in and then we turn it on and it doesn’t start up. We troubleshoot for a good bit and then i go home defeated but i call up my friend Max and ask him to help me out. He says sure i'll come and help you out and he then shows up to my house. I tell him “so we built this today and we can't get it to turn on is there something we did wrong?” He then replied “let's open it up and see what's going on.” We open up the case and he then looks at it for a second and immediately gets an idea. Max noticed we had a few chords not plugged in and some chords that were in the wrong spots. In a matter of minutes Max gets everything plugged in and we try to see if it starts now, and to my surprise it did work. “We had done it” we both said and i realized something important that day. I realized that as long as you put in the effort it is going to help you and alongside that if you're having trouble don't be afraid to ask for help because you never know who can help you out. With the help of my brother and my friend max I was able to accomplish this big feat that at first seemed impossible or really difficult but it wasn't as much as i made it out to be