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I have to post one more about myself, Back in my early days of PC building. I worked in a small shop and was the main tech. I was the only full time tech and we had 2 part time techs.

Normally I would build the systems in the morning and lets the part time techs do the setups, OS installs, extra software. Stuff like that as I would move toward doing the repairs people would bring in.

One week we had several more orders then normal. So I had one of the techs helping build systems. Normally I would check out each system before Power was connected to the power supply.

This time, we had built a system. I knew I started it, then I got called alway and ask on of the other guys to go ahead and finish it. They where both pretty good techs. But between us, we forgot one important part and didn't realize it until we had the system up and running.

We went though and installed win98 from CD, not an image. Installed the system monitor and found the CPU was near critical. We had left the CPU fan/heatsink off of an AMD 350 K62. I was amazed it did not fry the CHIP. Turned it off, and corrected. Fried it back up and it run prefect.
I remember we throughly tested that one, During the 24 hour Burn in we always did, I put Seti at home on it for 24 hours. we reformatted and reinstalled to make sure. It was solid.

After we delivered that batch of systems and setup the network, we never had any major service calls, other then helping them with printers. I know that system was still in service at least 2 years later when I left that job.