Building Your Own Computer By Adam Weidemann

Case and Power Supply  You want to first choose a case that will fit the motherboard form factor and choose a power supply with an output that will accommodate your needs  Be Sure to get a nice flashy case that you can show off to your friends! Might want to have a PSU of about 350 Watts just to be save!

Motherboard, processor, memory  Make sure your Motherboard supports the processor and memory you plan on buying!  Carefully mount and screw your motherboard to your case  Very carefully insert the processor into the socket, be sure to line up the pins correctly and put the heat sink on.  Insert Memory into a Dimm and snap the edges back in.

Optical Devices  Take off any neccesary drive-bay covers on your case  Screw in each drive to the drive-bay  Plug in all necessary power and ide cables to the mother board and drives  Check for proper Jumper Arrangment

Other Devices  Video Card and sound card snap in place in the PCI slots and screw in for added stability.

Setting up the Case Switches  Resort to your motherboard manual for this very annoying and tedious activity, for the proper jumper configs.

Make that baby POST!!  After everything is correctly plugged in, turn on the computer  If you don’t hear a beep, start troubleshooting  Make sure all jumpers are configured correctly, processor is securely fastened and that you are not overheating anything!

Installing Windows XP  Insert the CD Into your cd-drive  Set Your CD-Drive to boot first in your bios  Restart Computer, press any key to boot from CD  Choose to format your Hard Drive using NTFS on an unpartioned drive space  Follow setup instructions  BAM You got Win XP Baby!

Brag to your friends  Now you can build a computer for anyone, maybe even make some good money doing so. You can even make them look all fancy schmancy with neon lights and case windows!