Thread: Building a Desktop

Originally Posted by linkinkampf19

7. Make sure if you have front USB and/or media reader connections to unhook them from the board. not doing so before an installation will give you a C: drive that is not your Windows install.

Originally Posted by ephekt

I've never experienced or heard of this.

I've seen something like this once, I forget what exact type of media reader it was, it was given the C:\ and the Windows partition was made D:\. No big deal, but the users I was doing it for are average users, and every program installation is mapped to C:\blahblahblah, so they would have to change the path every time.

Originally Posted by sycld

2) I never, ever understand what OEM means. Wut duz OEM mean?

Original Equipment Manufacturer - basically "factory" stuff. In the case of newegg, if you order something that is OEM and not "Retail", it was made for an someone like HP, or Dell, meaning no retail packaging, possibly no manual or drivers with it.