Can people who have experience please comment on the following chronological procedure of building my new comp?
Thanks!
The mobo is an Epox EP-8K7A+ (cpu 1.4 athlon), the cpu's heatsink/fan is Thermalright SK-6 w/ Delta 60x60x25 fan
1. Power supply (install fan on power supply, if needed)
2. Apply ASII to motherboard's heatsink
3. Place motherboard in case's tray
4. Latch CPU on motherboard
5. Apply ASII
6. Place shim on CPU
7. Place heatsink, make sure its latched also (the ASII isn't gonna dry and keep it on)
8. Attach case wires (buttons, leds, etc.)
9. Put in drives for RAID (make sure jumpers on them are correct, you don't want to mess with jumpers once they're inside your case)
10. Set FSB jumpers to 266 (until I decide to overclock)
11. Put in Video card
12. Put in all hdd's, cdroms and floppy
13. Set up RAID in BIOS (Ctrl-H)
14. Load up windows, format the drives.
15. Install onboard raid driver
16. Put in the rest of the cards, drives, cd-roms
Materials:
Razor-blade
Lint-free cloth
Nail polish remover/acetone/isopryl alcohol
Philipshead, duh
1 >= Eye
Thanks!
The mobo is an Epox EP-8K7A+ (cpu 1.4 athlon), the cpu's heatsink/fan is Thermalright SK-6 w/ Delta 60x60x25 fan
1. Power supply (install fan on power supply, if needed)
2. Apply ASII to motherboard's heatsink
3. Place motherboard in case's tray
4. Latch CPU on motherboard
5. Apply ASII
6. Place shim on CPU
7. Place heatsink, make sure its latched also (the ASII isn't gonna dry and keep it on)
8. Attach case wires (buttons, leds, etc.)
9. Put in drives for RAID (make sure jumpers on them are correct, you don't want to mess with jumpers once they're inside your case)
10. Set FSB jumpers to 266 (until I decide to overclock)
11. Put in Video card
12. Put in all hdd's, cdroms and floppy
13. Set up RAID in BIOS (Ctrl-H)
14. Load up windows, format the drives.
15. Install onboard raid driver
16. Put in the rest of the cards, drives, cd-roms
Materials:
Razor-blade
Lint-free cloth
Nail polish remover/acetone/isopryl alcohol
Philipshead, duh
1 >= Eye