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Build your own,only one person to answer too! Look in the mirror!Nov 04 '00 Write an essay on this topic.One Day I called on an add for computers, this gentleman said," I have many used for sale ,why don't you stop over and have a look"! Ok, so I did, best move I've ever made in this unbelievable changing world of computers. I stopped there and I said ,"where did you get all of these". Well he built them, from 386 at the time up to Pentium 100mhz. I mentioned to him that I always wanted to build one. He said its easy but time consuming, you do need a lot of patients and have to have a basic understanding of operating systems. So he gave me a few parts mother boards dx2 66mhz chips, video cards ,sound cards ,controller cards a 42 meg hard drive, lol. First thing you do Is put that video card in, then a keyboard ,mouse ,the chip ,the older 486 really don't need that fan on them. and the Ram memory , hard drive floppy drive and boot it up ,of course after you hook up the power supply ,on the split power leads make sure that you have the proper orientation. Make sure that your ribbon cables are oriented correctly the stripe on the ribbon always goes to the #1 pi on the board and also on the hard drive and what ever other device your using. Always remember the song Back in Black black next to Black for the power plug. Well if the bios screen lights up your at the first step, your memory should be fine along with your video card, then, reboot and when it boots back up hold down the delete button to get into your system bios. Some bios chips have a hard drive detection process so that you don't have to configure your hard drive, if not then you go to user and define you heads, cylinders and sectors ,hopefully it does find it ok. Its good to have Doss 6.22 so you can reboot with the #1 dos6.22 disk in there and go from there! That is just a quick summary to get you out of the gate. I have built quite a few computers for a very cheap price, what's nice is you can install exactly what ever hardware you wish to install provided that it is in fact supported. I recommend reading up on this first unless you are building some old junk that I call it to learn. I highly recommend building something that you can afford to screw up! A great free search bot software to use to help you find articles on this would be: http://www.copernic.com Download copernic 2000 and look up building your own computer. Its fun and very educational.There is a bit more to this but it will get you running. Bear in mind, if something goes wrong you have only one person to choke! "That would be the man in the mirror"!  |
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