HOW TO BUILD YOUR OWN PC

STEP 1
You may ask yourself what are the basic parts of a computer? The first step is ask yourself? Do you want your personal computer to be top of line? Do you want it to be cheap but reasonable? then add these steps to your list;

1. Buy a Monitor or LCD (face) - Monitor long lasting, can be fix when broken, time span of life expectancy is 10 years if properly maintained. LCD Ego friendly I mean Eco friendly--joke! Disposable now that's friendlier (sarcasm).

2. Casing (body) for ATX (for CPU's housing) comes with free power supply or keyboard, mouse. This is just your box where to put all your hardware. If in case it doesn't comes with a free keyboard or mouse then improvise.


3. Motherboard (veins); remember there are many brands to choose from, stay away from top of the line if your not a pro. Because they create more technical problems. If your in a strict budget then buy with a AGP ready.3


(Optional) AGP cards or video card for better graphics and fast upload of info into your screen.



4. Choose a Processor (brain) that is compatible with your motherboards, Choose with the same brands as your motherboard. It comes from slowest to the fastest ranges from 800mhz to 3.06Ghz, II-Quad speed.

5. buy memory chips (short term memory) or today they called it DDR2 1G.


6. Hard drive (Long term memory) from 40ghz to 180ghz or higher. Reminder don't used very higher hard drive capacity if your processor is slow like; 40ghz to 80ghz for 26oo(1.5ghz) processor below. because it will overclocked (overheat).

7. Optical drive (mouth) from CD drive to DVD drive or better yet buy a COMBO DRIVE.


8. Diskette drive (taste buds) cute! This is where step 2 comes in.


Then start building, remember to read the step by step manual of your motherboard on how to connect each hardware. Don't be afraid to start, reminder each socket is different from each hardware connecting to the motherboard. Here are some run through on how to assemble your hardware;
a) Screw your motherboard into your ATX casing.
b) plug your processor to your motherboard as the motherboard pamphlet says where to attached.
c) Screw and plug your hard drives in the steel slots.
d) Screw and plug your combo drive into the upper part of where your hard drive is.
e) Screw and plug your diskette drive below your hard drive.
f) Attach your memory chips into your motherboard.
then your done with your CPU's, plug your monitor, keyboard, and mouse then power up and Proceed to step 2.

REFORMATING HARD DRIVE

STEP 2
Ther are two ways to reformat your hard drive, knowing that your data inside your hard drive is unrecovable due to that fact of a system crash down. Get ready to run you CD Software accompanied by each hard drive purchase just load your Disc utility CD thne all is follow the instructions which are easy to understand even for an eight year old child (User Friendly), but here in the Philippines Software Stores tend to omit such important tool inside each purchased hard drive. Here are some easy steps to follow;

1. Get ready to load your Startup diskette and placed it inside your diskette drve A, if you don't have one try to download somewhere else.

2. As soon as it prompts to A:\ type in fdisk then press ENTER.

3. in prompt A type in Format c:/s or Format c:.

4. PRESS 'YES' Warning all data will be deleted.

5. after finishing restart, almost as good as new. If it ask to be repartitioned then read my next blog about PARTITIONING YOU HARD DRIVE. Remember, this procedure is cheap it will cost you one lousy diskette rather than buying a software that cost $200 or Php8,000. What todays software has done is that they made this old way of doing it represented it in a user friendly format, so what are you paying for? Simple it's the "IDEA" but still the same procedure they just made it pretty to look at. please do be careful in taking good care of your hard drive. DON'T DROP IT FOR ANY REASON. Proceed to step 3

CMOS CONFIGURATION

STEP 4

Cmos is the thing on your down far right side, a black chip that basically connects your hardware to become visible or recognizable by the computer and besides it is the cmos battery, and that rounded silver shape on your farthest right is what it makes your cmos remembers all your configuration about your hardware, like hard drives, disc drives, video cards, etc. Remember depleted cmos battery make your cmos dumb. To reset cmos there are tiny black or red jumpers that can be pull out to reset everything from passwords to configurations you can't even remember it anymore, so in other words if in case you lost the password from your cmos then is always a reset jumper that kicks everything backs to it's fucking place. How to go to your local cmos configuration?

1. Restart your PC.

2. While restarting press DEL or ENTER then you'll go directly to cmos.

3. Click advance BIOS features.

4. Change the first boot device into FLOPPY instead of HDD, this is what usually technician do to prevent you from tampering your PC.

5. Don't forget to save up and exit.

6. You can start loading you operating system (Windows, Linux or UNIX)

REMEMBER UNLESS YOUR COMPUTER TURNS ON IT'S STILL OKEY, NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT, IT WILL ONLY BE BROKEN IF YOU POCKED IT HARD WITH SCREW DRIVER, DROP IT, SCRATCH IT, OR WET IT THEN IT'S PROBABLY BROKEN NOW. YOU KNOW GUYS I'M NO COMPUTER SCIENCE GRADUATE BUT I'VE LEARNED TO FIX MY OWN COMPUTERS BY JUST READING THE INSTRUCTION IN BETWEEN THE LINES, IF I CAN TEACH MY 9 YEAR OLD BROTHER TO ASSEMBLE A DESKTOP THEN YOU CAN DO IT MUCH BETTER, IT'S AS EASY AS PLAYING YOUR LEGO'S WHEN YOU USED TO BE KIDS OR TEA CUP PARTY. WHEN COMPUTERS DON'T WORK THEY ARE WITH LOOSE COMPONENTS THAT GOES TO FIT EXACTLY WHERE IT SHOULD FIT MEANING ONE COMPONENT IS DEFERENT FROM THE OTHER SO WON'T BE ABLE TO PLUG IT INTO THE MOTHERBOARD IF IT'S NOT THE RIGHT COMPONENTS. AND IF THEIR IS LEAKING OR DISCOLORATION AMONG THE COMPONENTS THEN YOU'LL HAVE TO REPLACE A COMPONENT, COMPONENTS THAT ARE COMMONLY REPLACED ARE THE MOTHERBOARD (in three years life span) NOTHING LESS, I HAVE BEEN TRICKED BY TECHNICIANS BEFORE AND ALL ARE LIARS. USUALLY WHEN PC ARE CONSTANTLY RESTARTING IT'S EITHER A LOOSE CONNECTIONS OR OVERHEATING (commonly known as overclocking). AND ALWAYS WEAR RUBBER SHOES OR RUBBER GLOVES TO AVOID ELECTRIC SHOCKS. (KIDS DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME WITHOUT ADULT SUPERVISON)