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Building Your Own PC Essay

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Building Your Own PC

In the following paragraphs I will be instructing you step by step on how to build your own PC (Personal Computer). It is recommended that you have general knowledge on computers. This means that you need to know what the different parts are and what they do.

The first thing that you want to do is to get all your tools and parts together. The tools that you will need are a Phillips screw driver and a ¼'; socket wrench. The basic parts that you must have are a motherboard (PC Board), a video card, a sound card, some RAM (Random Access Memory), a hard drive, a 3 ½'; floppy A drive, and a computer case. For these particular instructions you will need a …show more content…

After you have tightly crewed those in you will want to take the PC board and set it on top of the mounting screws. You will want to place the holes of the PC board over the mounting screws. You will then want to screw down the PC board to the side panel. After you have done this place the side panel, with the PC board attached, back into the case and replace the screws that were holding it.

You have now completed the first part of your computer. You will now want to look at the front of the case and take off one or two of the slot panels, depending on if you are installing a CD-ROM or not. This is where you are going to place you’re a drive and your CD-ROM if you chose to install one. You’ll want to go ahead and place in the floppy drive and the CD-ROM now and screw them in tightly. Be sure that they do not protrude out of the front of the case. Now you will want to place your hard drive in under the floppy drive and secure it. You have now completed the second part of your computer.

You will know want to take your RAM and place them in the slots they were designed for on the PC board. You will then want to take the IDE cable that came with the case and plug it into the PC board where the IDE 1 is labeled. You will then take the other end of the cable and plug it into your CD-ROM. Continue to plug the middle of the cable into your hard drive making

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