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         "Basic Computer Construction"
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  C/O :: Dr4g of DynamicHell Development Team
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  http://dynamichell.org | irc.dynamichell.org
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First of all i will explain why i chose to write this tutorial. 
I found that on the internet i could not find sufficient resources via the WWW on building your first computer from scratch.
I also was very curious incase i bought all these things and they did not work, or i couldnt get them to work.
Have no fear, Drag is here. As long as their compaitble theres no reason why they shouldnt be working properly.

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I will try to explain the basics on what you shall need before you begin to build this amazing little computer of yours. =D

Firstly You will need to buy:
A Computer Chaset(case) preferrably with PSU fitted.
Computer, Self-Tapped, Screws which should come with the Case itself.
Motherboard.
CPU/Processor(with Cooling Fan & Heat Sink)
RAM.(Memory, 128MB+)
Hard Drive(4GB+)
Floppy Drive( 3 1/2)
CD-ROM Drive(4x+)
Keyboard & Mouse(optional)
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2.
Now begin to open your case and inside you should be able to see where your motherboard
will slot into. However, its not as easy as just plug and play. You have to screw your
motherboard securley to the inside of the casing. With the set of screws you aquired you should have a kind of nut
which is called a Raiser, one end should screw onto the casing and the other end you should be able to screw something else into it.
Once they are in. you can begin to place your motherboard ontop of these raisers and place screws into the top end of them going through the holes in your motherboard securing it into place.

Now strat to place the components into place. First of all we will attach the AT or ATX cables from the PSU into the motherboard for its main power supply.
Next we attach the CPU to the board and with a Cooling Fan also being fitted on top of the CPU so that it does not overheat.
Now on the white(whatever colour it may be) slots place your strips of RAM into them and lock them into place.

Now we attach our hard drive to the motherboard via an IDE or SCSI bus cable which you connect to the board and into your drive. Make sure it is in firmly,
and plug the 4pin power cable into the drive coming from the PSU.You should now mount your drive to the casing theire should be slots provided in your case if not, well i dont know what you should always have somewhere to sit/slot your drive onto and secure with screws provided.

Now for the floppy drive, we attach the IDE bus cable to the floppy drive the same way we did with the hard drive. However, the IDE cable for the floppy is unique and should say on it FD or Floppy. And yes the 4-pin power cable goes into that drive also.

The same thing applies with the CD-ROM drive for the Hard Drive. Plug an IDE cable into the CD-ROM drive as u normally would, followed by the 4-pin power adapter. There should also be some place to mount your CD-ROM drive.

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Right now we could plug everything into the back and hit the switch, but nothing would work it would appear dead. As we need to set the CMOS setting on the motherboard, to \tab communicate with the case. Example:(LED's and the power button at the front of the case.) They shoudl be marked on the cables themselves and on the motherboard hopefully. If not you should definetley look up the CMOS setting in the M/Board manual before trying this, and observe the diagrams.

Once everything is in place, now we should have some power. But no Display.
if the motherboard does not have a built in display card then you shoudl aquire one which would need to be compatible with your board itself. At the back unscrew the slots and slot the card in to an ISA/PCI or AGP slot depending on the technology of your board.

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4.
Now that everything is plugged in were gagging to go. So fingers crossed and plug in all the cables in the back (monitor, power & mouse/keyboard). Hit the switch and voila that should be you. Ready to install your operating system onto your hard disk.

Im sorry there is not alot of documentation on installing OS's but there are many types and do not have an exact result for every time you do it as every computers specifications are different. I hope you have learned something from this tutorial and if you have had any problems while trying this or think that i am too brief in some aspects then please Email me and i will elaborate on that part.

Thanks For Your Time - Hope You Enjoyed Reading My First Ever Tutorial

Drag :-  dr4g@dynamichell.com