Guide on How to build a Computer In Less Time
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Table of Content Getting Started
Introduction…………………………………………….. Thesis Statement …………………………………… 4 4 5 6 6 7 7 8 9 9 10 11 11 12 13 13 14 14 15 15
Checking supplied items ……………………………… Software Required ……………………………………… Cables and Miscellaneous………………………………. STEP 1: Computer Case …………………………
STEP 2: Motherboard………………………………… STEP 3: CPU…………………………………………. STEP 4: Memory…………………………………….. STEP 5: CD ROM/RW…………………………….. ... STEP 6: Hard Drive………………………………….. STEP 7: Modem, Video Card and the sound card ...
STEP 8:Post-Assembly ……………………………… STEP 9: Test the System …………………………….. STEP 10: Install the Operating System ……………….. Arjun's graph vs. others ………………………………… Choice of Systems ……………………………………… Summation ……………………………………………. References……………………………………………… Bibliography……………………………………………
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Introduction:
One of the most common and one of the most important aspects of building any thing is instructions—those step-by-step explanations of how to do things: assemble, operate, repair, or do routine maintenance on something. For most of the time, instructions apparently seem so hard and confusing, but this manual will show what professionals consider to be the most prominent but simple techniques.
Thesis statement:
This manual will show how to build any computer correctly and efficiently. Please follow the instruction carefully.
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Checking supplied items
Computer Casa
Memory
Motherboards
Modem & sound card
CPU
Video Card
Screws & Cables
CD-ROM/RW
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To build a basic PC, need at least a motherboard, a memory module, a processor with cooling fan, a power supply, a hard drive, a floppy drive, a video card and a CD-ROM. Software Required
System Disk Device Drivers (these usually come with the hardware above) Operating System
Cables and Miscellaneous Drive cables Motherboard spacers (usually come with the motherboard, but are used to space the motherboard up off the mounting plate) Screws (usually a whole pile of screws will come with your PC's case, but if you are using a case you happened to have around, you will need to collect some screws) Power cords (for both your PC and your monitor. They usually come with the hardware when you buy it, of course)
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Computer Case
Step 1. A. Slide the side panel off the case. Most side panels are secured by several screws. Inside the case are various regions that perform different functions.
B. Make sure you set the power supply to the proper voltage. 110v in the United States and 220v in other parts of the world.
Motherboards
Step 2 Here is the basic procedure:
Each Motherboard has different configuration methods, so make sure to read the manual.
A. Set the voltage settings.
B. Set the jumpers to match the voltage for the CPU.
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Some boards are designed to detect the voltage automatically and then use the correct voltage. In this case, we don’t have to worry about it.
C. Configures your Motherboard so that it matches the Processor speed, and the Bus it was designed to work with.
If the manual lists settings by CPU, just do what it says.
D. The last step to configuring the Motherboard is to make sure all the default settings are correct.
CPU
Step 3
Installing your CPU should not be a very difficult task. Currently there are two styles of CPU. The socket style CPU and the Slot style CPU.
All we installing here the slot style CPU.
Slot Style Cpu's are much easier to install, many of them have the heat sink and cooling fan built right into the protective casing. If that is the case all you have to do just
A. Lift the CPU Rails that guide the CPU. B. Sliding the CPU into the slot.
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If heat sink and cooling fan is not built right into the protective case:
C. Make sure heat sink and cooling screwed into the case.
Memory
Step 4.
This should be one of the simplest steps in the whole process.
A. Hold the memory make, sure golden part toward the bottom. B. Basically push it in the available memory slot on your Motherboard and snapping the chip in place.
Its only goes one way.
CD-Rom/RW
Step 5.
CD-ROM/RW drive installation is a fairly straightforward process.
A. First step is to make sure that all the jumpers are set correctly.
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Once the Jumpers set all we have to do install the CD-ROM or CD-RW drive into the computer case.
B. Remove the two side panels of the computer case C. As well as the front face plate of the bay you will be installing your CD-ROM drive into. D. Then Connect one end of the Ribbon Cable to your CD-ROM Drive and the other end to the IDE Controller slot on your Motherboard. E. Then connect audio cable to connect the CD-ROM drive to your sound card.
This will allow you to play audio CD's through your computer.
F. Last step Plug in a Power supply connector and the CD-ROM drive is fully installed.
Hard Drive
Step 6.
Installing the Hard Drive is very similar to installing the CD-ROM drive. So just flow the same step. Since the hard drive should be set to master
A. First step is to make sure that the jumpers is set as master B. Remove the two side panels of the computer case C. As well as the front face plate of the bay you will be installing your Hard drive into.
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D. Then Connect one end of the Ribbon Cable to your Hard Drive and the other end to the IDE Controller slot on your Motherboard.
We should connect the terminal end of the cable to the drive.
Modem, Video Card and the sound card
Step 7.
Modem, Video Card and the sound card installation very similar. Install the video card into the appropriate slot (hopefully an AGP) by pressing down firmly till it is well seated. Secure the Card to the computer case by fastening a screw to the case through the top of the card.
The sound card and modem are installed in the same manner in the motherboards PCI slots.
Modem goes to the PCI slots also.
Post-Assembly Step 8:
Congratulations! You have now completed the hardware portion of putting together your PC.
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Review all your connections and installations as completed in prior steps. Here is a bulleted list of highlights to guide you:
Drives are properly connected to the power supply CPU fan attached to the power supply or to the power connector on the motherboard
The 110/220 volt switch on the back of the power supply is configured properly Ribbon cables attached correctly and securely All connections tight, no connectors off by one set of pins No wires or ribbon cables protruding into fan blades Power switch connector on ATX machines properly
Test The System Step 9.
It is time for the moment of truth. To see if this thing works!! Let's get everything connected and prepared to turn it on: 1. Connect your mouse and keyboard 2. Connect your monitor to the video card and connect the power cord to the monitor. 3. Connect the power cord to your power supply on the PC itself.
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STEP 10: Install the Operating System Now it is time to install the OS software. It is very easy just flow the other manual.
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Summation The every day life is based on learning, building value, following detail instructions and interpreting detail information in order to arrive and reach success. Building a computer is a learning process. It’s information that should be displayed in a format that’s feasible to all people. It’s information that should specify, stipulate, and guide with easy to understand literature. So now, here is a manual strongly created based on these implications. Here is manual with a purpose that gives everyone the opportunity to learn to understand and to function a device that may seem difficult to some. The goal has been reached. The goal to create a manual that’s a teacher within itself. The goal to find one purpose, one intention, and bring it all together in a manual on how to build a computer.
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References Build a Computer from Scratch, Young Entrepreneur Builds Computer Business customer relationships. Build Your Own Multimedia PC: A Complete Guide to Renovating and Constructing Personal Computers. www.HOWTOBUILDCOMPUTER.COM
Bibliography Heaton, Jeff. Build a Computer from Scratch. 2nd ed. Heaton Research, Inc. (June 30, 2006) Wolff, Maggie. Young Entrepreneur Builds Computer Business customer relationships. 1st ed. News for Business, Inc January 31, 1999. Sinclair, Ian Robertson. Build Your Own Multimedia PC: A Complete Guide to Renovating and Constructing Personal Computers. Butterworth-Heinemann; 2Rev Ed
edition (February 1997)
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