# Computer assembly problem - it won't go!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-assembly-problem-it-wont-go/204085
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [September 27, 2003, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-assembly-problem-it-wont-go/204085 "2003-09-27T00:50:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2003, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-assembly-problem-it-wont-go/204085/21 "2003-09-27T22:44:40Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Amberlei \*
> \*\*So your motherboard directly contacts the metal on the case and doesn’t short out? \*\*
Nah, a lot of cases these days have standoffs (the technical term you were looking for) or amounting frame for the board built right in.
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### Author:  [@a\_bird\_on\_the\_wire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a_bird_on_the_wire)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2003, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-assembly-problem-it-wont-go/204085/22 "2003-09-28T04:26:51Z")
**Q.E.D.** My bad.
I’m going to tattoo “Preview is your friend” on my forehead.
This was supposed to preceed the other quote…
_“Pull out EVERYTHING save the processor and one stick of RAM and the video card and see if it will boot.”_
I was pointing out your use of the same term “boot” to describe two totally different states.
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