how do i assemble a computer w/o a case

Gliss

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Quaunaut

Its certainly possible: Just set the mobo on something that generally wouldn't electrocute you, and start putting it together. The case just holds stuff in place, and keeps you rather safe from anything 'unsafe' that could happen, and keeps it cleaner than it would under other circumstances.

CForrester

Your best bet, if it's just a temporary setup, would be to get an empty cereal box and cut one side off of that, just to have something to work with. Set the motherboard down on it, put the CPU, RAM, etc... in, set the powersupply and hard drives/CD-ROM drives on a piece of cardboard next to it, plug them all in and start it up. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />

[EDIT:] P.S.: sup pj

NEO_Phyte

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i have pretty much everything but a case, my brother said one of his friends started his computer with a screwdriver, anyone done anything similar like that? or some guide on the internets for it?
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Screwdriver startup is easy. You know the pins you connect the case's front switch to? Play connect-the-dots with a conductive screwdriver. To turn it off, you need to maintain the pin connection for a few seconds.

BobTheJanitor

Also if you've lost the manual and don't know which pins are which, you can just keep jumping random pairs until it turns on. The other switches won't do anything unless the computer is already on anyway, and several of them are outputs to LEDs which again, won't do anything sans-power.

Gliss

thanks for the help guys; I might end up using this, I might not. I'll get some pictures if I do though. right now I'm just figuring out if buying a case will make me starve at lunch :<

(o hlo cfo)

BlackMage

radioshack sells proper switches that you could wire to the pins

Faust

Cases aren't terribly expensive anyway, especially if you already have a PSU.


Especially second hand.