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all right so we have a fix to our issue in this video right here he's having to nerd and bite watch that one first it's a step by step and guy of how to build a super compact ITX PC we had an issue with the power board this is kind of like a picot power board design so smaller than ITX basically means we have an external AC adapter and then an internal kind of power board that splits loads it's like the 24 pin APs and we pretty much ruled everything else out except for this board so we assume this board was dead I contacted an tech they were super quick to send another board like this and yeah I could have gone on Amazon a few of you were saying to buy some Pico power supplies on Amazon but a lot of those still had it sketchy ratings and I'd rather go with an Tex just because they'll be quicker to respond if we need to RMA so we're gonna install this and then put together the system again but with one catch and that catch is the knock show it online a am for cooler this is a ultra low-profile course if you have a you know a very small case and you want to fit something aftermarket in it then I recommend going with this if you have an AM 4 platform to work with so I expect this will be quieter than the stock like race stealth cooler that we're using here this barely fit we ready to take the outside shroud off so kinda looks a little ugly now so if anything I hope it'll be just a bit quieter and if you know anything about Noctua I'd say that's probably a fair estimation I'm gonna get that rear i/o shield back in there this massive cables but I want to do first installed the new power supply I could test this saw out of the system but again this is something that I could remove without disassembling the rest of the system so Emily it's gonna be a big deal if you put this all back in there only to find out this board is also dead underneath you can see there's a lot of solder points that are pretty sharp and pretty long so we'll make sure that these aren't touching the back of the case so that's why this paper is in there for those wondering put it like that then drop the board in this screw is so close to that inductor he's like no space between them hopefully that was again the only issue and hopefully this board actually works now the next thing I want to do is to be a very quick fix we're gonna swap out stock a be cooler then actua Phoenix l98 this is really loud so this is the NHL 9a and it is actually surprisingly heavy I thought part of this was just the box and accessories but this cooler I mean this this whole thing here there's no backplate attached to it yet this is extremely heavy we also have our in th one thermal paste included in an actual kit so we're gonna throw this on there first and then the way this installs you actually have to install it from below so we're going to lay this down flat and then we're gonna put thermal paste it's gonna be pretty sticky we'll put some on the IHS we'll flip it over and make sure that the standoffs on the backside align and then we'll be able to thread the backplate on like so and then screw it in from back here so a bit of an unorthodox install but I think it'll be gonna be good so there was a tiny clearance issue with one of the erm heat sinks you can see this piece right here was just barely hitting an actual cooler so I've removed this I'm not too worried about it though because we're still gonna have difficulty of sorts to make the it's a top down cooler so I don't think it's going to be an issue okay but over the back plate ready to go this is actually super easy to install very impressed with this just make sure you read the manual because I definitely mess this up a couple times beforehand and we can just slide this cable right in there watch one CPU fan of this one okay it's actually super on the DL as well see there's our entire platform looks great actually I really like the way this looks so next step we're going to install motherboard these cables out of the way I kind of had to come come in like this last time so I'm gonna give that another try tight squeeze show good gosh just like no clearance here oh this is cringy there we go and it's sitting correctly show them how close the the ITX board is to that power board there is again no wasted space and that's chassis that's what kind of has me worried but at the same time I think it's super resourceful all right now it's got to wire everything back up front io connected cable managed as we go USB 2 we're gonna stuff this cable I don't know same thing I have no idea what we're gonna put skeety let me remember where I put it last on pin is next it's right here and we don't need the SATA power cables or the molex because we're using an MDOT to drive so kind of tuck those in tuck this in no push it all in here there let's just let's just sandwich this thing on there I don't think we're gonna be able to do much more there we go and then just like last time nothing's changed four Phillips screws to lock in both pins this one really doesn't have much ventilation but there is some so it's worth noting besides does have plenty of ventilation and the top is pretty much totally mesh which is really nice plenty of airflow for our new knob to a cooler I think I am totally basing a whole of this on the expectation that the new board is working fine let's let's power it up and see if it actually boots up this time okay booting up we've got power and see our doctor debug led says we have just posted that's awesome but I'm going to double check I'm gonna get the monitor out here and make sure that it actually is posting so I can get Windows 10 on here for these does mama hey there's the post that's perfect now I'm gonna get my boot tool with Windows 10 on it and we'll install Windows okay so for installing windows I figured I'd cover that in this video because I didn't in the last one you're going to need a USB Drive I just have a 32 gig drive it's convenient cuz it's got USB 3.0 on one side just type-a and then we also have type C on the other side so I can kind of flip it between either one depending on what's supported with the board in question but you're gonna want to download Windows 10 and Windows 10 ISO preferably from the link in the video description it's up top it says how to install Windows 10 it's gonna take you to the windows the Microsoft Store and basically that you I will tell you to plug in a thumb drive and it will load all the necessary software onto the drive sort of basically turn it into a boot device and then you're gonna connect that to a PC and then whenever you go into your boot menu because remember there's no operating system on this drive right now that we have in the system you can have it run set up so we're going to go to the BIOS with function f1 when you're in your BIOS for the first time you might want to configure XMP and few other things I'm gonna leave everything is stock I don't want any conflicts with the PC for Lisa's mom she's not gonna really friendly notice the difference between overclocked memory and memory that's running at a stock out-of-the-box frequency so I'm gonna leave it at 2400 I'm not gonna overclock a CPU at all I'm not going to touch any of that I'm not gonna touch the fan curve because that knocked to a cooler super quiet as is I'm just gonna show you how to boot into the USB device because that has Windows 10 loaded on it so in this case it's an MSI motherboard click the Settings button then you come down here to the tab that says boot click enter now you should see an option for USB key UEFI it's really depend on what your motherboard designates this as but I remember this boot option up to number one so the first thing is going to try to boot from is USB heat if there's nothing installed in this port and it's gonna keep moving down the list until it finds something to boot into obviously there's nothing else in the system that has anything loaded on it so it's gonna run through all of these and determine that nothing can you know there's no UI to boot into and it's just gonna throw you back into the BIOS more than likely so we want UEFI USB key up top and then we're going to hit escape we don't want to quit without saving go up here to the top right and click the X button and you can see we changed our boot options to our USB key is up top click yes now when the system restarts it should kick us right into the Windows 10 loading screen and that will indicate that it's successfully booted from the USB Drive let's see how this goes yep that's a good sign ok I'm gonna click next install now at this point if you don't have a product key can click I don't have one you'll still be able to load Windows 10 you still be able to boot in the operating system there will be an issue but I recommend you buy a key from some third-party website preferably you paid 20 30 bucks and get a valid key in the last year pretty much the life of the device in this case will click I don't have a product key for now and then we're gonna click Next Windows 10 home is most common accept the license terms now at this point I always choose the custom option because I want to make sure I know where Windows 10 is being installed so click that now you're gonna see the drives in your system and the only drive we have is that a data I'm about to drive so you can see unallocated space we confirm that it's about half a terabyte about 500 gigs or so and we can go how to create new or click Next it'll create a new volume for us and Windows 10 will begin installing on that drive alright so when these screens come up just to prompt you to select your language and your keyboard and all that good jazz just kind of churn through it at a password if you want you can also choose to accept the cortana deal if you're into being super cringy you can locations and device compatibility all that good stuff I typically turn all of this off that's just me so I'm gonna do that for the sake of my mother-in-law and click accept and yes so it's gonna say hello we're happy you're here give it a few minutes it's going to optimize the OS and then we should boot straight into the desktop and that's good to go last thing we need to do is buy a product key from somewhere to activate Windows and her mom will be all set all right so at this point it's gonna optimize a few things I'm gonna install drivers for her PC I get the Wi-Fi setup again activate Windows and I'm also gonna turn down the fan curve it was pretty quiet in the BIOS but now that we've boot in the OS it seems like it's running it pretty much max rpm so I'm gonna turn that down as well and then package it back up and hopefully makes its way through TSA safely when Lisa returns back to Germany here next week I'm I'm hoping I mean the worst they could do I guess is just tear it down and do this little swab they check for like druggies or whatever but that should be about the most invasive thing they do to the system I'm assuming they let her board the plane with it as a carry-on I definitely don't want her throwing this underneath the plane with her general I don't think she's taking general luggage back because she'll be hopefully back here pretty soon so we'll see how all that goes again we depreciate best wishes and prayers for Lisa's travel and we'll be ready to go here with another video pretty soon we're also gonna be live-streaming against Sunday night or after-hours livestream as usual if you guys want to hang out ask some questions just chat about whatever you guys want that's why I'm there it'll be awesome time to hang out as well thank you guys for watching if you like this video thumbs up you know what to do thumbs down for the opposite feeling you click that red subscribe button if you haven't already become a member if you're feeling super fancy and we'll catch you in the next one this is science video thanks for watching and thanks for building with us