
Capitan_Kid wrote:
Im
not saying those arent great games. Im saying they just didnt have the
impact on gaming like console games in comparison. Halo pretty much
kickstarted the FPS genre.
Aug 4, 2009 10:02 pm GMT
(9) SATA data connections
Your hard drives and DVD drives need to be able to transfer data to the motherboard, this means we need to hook them up with SATA cables
Just attach one end of the SATA cable to the motherboard SATA header, and the other end to the hard drive or DVD drive


Repeat until all drives are connected to the motherboard, most motherboards come with 2 SATA cables, but if you order more than 2 OEM drives you will need to order extra SATA cables
(10) Front Panel Wiring
The final step of building your rig before powering it up can be a little tricky to a beginner, but well labeled motherboards and front panel wires will help this part along greatly.
Now pretty much every case comes with 4 things on the front panel, headphone/mic jacks, USB ports, power switch, and reset switch.
I'll start out with wiring the audio jacks in the front, luckily everything is well labeled.
HD Audio wire

Plugs into the F(ront)_Audio header on the motherboard, near the audio outputs on the back of the motherboard/case

The USB wire

Plugs into the motherboard's F_USB header, just under the graphics card (but location may vary for you)

Now for the power switch, reset switch, front power LED, and hard drive activity LED cables. This is where a well labeled motherboard comes in handy since it will hopefully tell you which of the front panel pins are for which wire and what the positive and negative alignments are for them. A rule of thumb on the positive and negative configurations of the wires is that the colored wire is pretty much always positive, while the white wire is pretty much always negative.



And that's it! Congratualtions. Now replace the case's side panel and get the computer ready for use by pluggin in the power cord, keyboard/mouse, monitor, speakers, and whatever else you like. Make sure the switch on the back of the powersupply is in the proper position, and hit the powerswitch to fire her up. Now its time to install a buncha stuff.

(11) Operating System and Driver installation
Since others have done a better job at describing this than I can, here are some guides:
How to Install Windows XP
How to Install Windows Vista
Your motherboard should have come with a driver CD, as soon as the operating system is installed just run the driver CD and install the components on it that will allow your computer to function properly. I highly recommend getting the most up to date video card drivers from the manufacturor's website: Nvidia or ATi
Now that your computer is fully up and running there's only one thing left to do...
LAN Party!

Edited on Jul 31, 2012 7:01 pm GMT Edited 3
Your hard drives and DVD drives need to be able to transfer data to the motherboard, this means we need to hook them up with SATA cables
Just attach one end of the SATA cable to the motherboard SATA header, and the other end to the hard drive or DVD drive


Repeat until all drives are connected to the motherboard, most motherboards come with 2 SATA cables, but if you order more than 2 OEM drives you will need to order extra SATA cables
(10) Front Panel Wiring
The final step of building your rig before powering it up can be a little tricky to a beginner, but well labeled motherboards and front panel wires will help this part along greatly.
Now pretty much every case comes with 4 things on the front panel, headphone/mic jacks, USB ports, power switch, and reset switch.
I'll start out with wiring the audio jacks in the front, luckily everything is well labeled.
HD Audio wire

Plugs into the F(ront)_Audio header on the motherboard, near the audio outputs on the back of the motherboard/case

The USB wire

Plugs into the motherboard's F_USB header, just under the graphics card (but location may vary for you)

Now for the power switch, reset switch, front power LED, and hard drive activity LED cables. This is where a well labeled motherboard comes in handy since it will hopefully tell you which of the front panel pins are for which wire and what the positive and negative alignments are for them. A rule of thumb on the positive and negative configurations of the wires is that the colored wire is pretty much always positive, while the white wire is pretty much always negative.



And that's it! Congratualtions. Now replace the case's side panel and get the computer ready for use by pluggin in the power cord, keyboard/mouse, monitor, speakers, and whatever else you like. Make sure the switch on the back of the powersupply is in the proper position, and hit the powerswitch to fire her up. Now its time to install a buncha stuff.

(11) Operating System and Driver installation
Since others have done a better job at describing this than I can, here are some guides:
How to Install Windows XP
How to Install Windows Vista
Your motherboard should have come with a driver CD, as soon as the operating system is installed just run the driver CD and install the components on it that will allow your computer to function properly. I highly recommend getting the most up to date video card drivers from the manufacturor's website: Nvidia or ATi
Now that your computer is fully up and running there's only one thing left to do...
LAN Party!

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