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lots of overhead light.
Once you have all the parts together,
find a flat smooth clean static free surface. make sure your
clothes are not polyester or you stand a chance of building up
butt loads of static and having a merciless discharge
turning your junk into.... well.. junk.
I like using
Gatorade lids to hold my screws and small parts in .. yeah
trailer park boys-ish i know but it works. working above
tile is good also, so you can hear the small parts when they drop
and kinda locate them easier by where the sound came
from.
with tower open and all parts scattered on table, lower
the motherboard in, take small pin nails and set them through the
mounting holes to mark your spot, should take like 6-9 of them
depending on board size and tower abilities, pull mother board
back out and try to not disturb the pin nails. replace each
nail with mounting studs, lower board in and screw board down ,
Follow instructions in the manuals for motherboard and
instructions from tower to set up power switches,usb connectors.
you may some times need to split the end connector for the
tower speaker so it fits the prongs. Tie back wires so they
stay low and out of view.
Insert ram and Cpu and heat sink,
simplest put, ,,, be gentle be slow bend no prongs scratch no
boards
Set in all drives cdrom/dvd/hard/flop. place the
power supply in , take board connecting wire strand and try and
map the cleanest least visible route, then plug it in.. do not
crack mother board.... yes it can happen.... Do the same with the
drives, I tie to the rack as I go down the line. Keep hard drives
away from all magnets, even the case speaker magnet !
Video
card pretty much the same way you did the ram,,, the slit(s) in
the card tells you which way it should face.
Get a good
look at inner case... all air paths need to be clear of anything..
even wires. now plan the path your air will flow and then look at
your fans to see which direction the blades should face to achieve
the airflow you planned.
close case, cross toes plug in all
devices for first boot and press power button, pray for
bios/cmos boot. Press delete and watch temperatures for about ten
minutes or untill you see that it is getting really
hot.
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