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this video is going to be over chapter 3 part 1 of 3 so there's going to be three
parts for chapter 3 this is part 1 parts 2 & 3 the links will be in the
description below and chapter 3 is going to cover computer assembly so let's get
started with our video or with our first part here and that's going to cover
assembling the computer building the computer and again parts 2 & 3 will be
in the link will be in the description below now when we're assembling the
computer the first thing that you're going to do is work with the case and
the power supply and when you open your case up you want to check and make sure
that all of your parts are there when you buy a new case from a manufacturer
you're going to receive the case and you're most likely going to get a
package of screws that go with the power supply then maybe put the motherboard
down or maybe some other miscellaneous screws that go with it you just want to
check and make sure that you have everything there you're going to make
sure you prepare your space you know put there's some cables in there I know this
is a small photo but if you were in the lab for the netacad course you're gonna
see videos that show you how to do that and I'm also going to do some videos
later on and I'll put links in the description below at a later time on
actually assembling a computer but you're going to open your case up and
there's different methods for opening your case up you don't want to force
anything and break anything some modular cases and a Dell or an HP they have some
up some latches and things like that that open up a case so you just want to
make sure that you're opening that up properly if you're not sure just consult
maybe with the manufacturer online or check out a youtube video so a youtube
video that will show you that but you want to check the the manufacturers
documentation to make sure how to everything goes in that case the next
thing we're going to do is we're going to install the power supply now the
power supply most likely will come with the case it those are usually sold as a
bundle when purchased those from a manufacturer just
because it makes it easier to buy the case and the power supply at the same
time and in some cases those are already pre-installed inside the case but if
they are not or if it is pre-installed you want to make sure that the screws
are tightened down because those Kim can come loose and shipping so you want to
make sure that that's all tightened down properly you want to check inside and
make sure that you can put your power supply in properly and I want to give a
a word of caution here on working inside the case you want to be careful when
moving your hands around inside the case because there are sharp metal objects
and you can slice your fingers open or slice your hand open I have done that in
the past so you want to be careful with that and you're just gonna secure the
power supply you want to you're gonna put it in where it belongs you know
let's say that it's gonna go right inside there and you're gonna have four
screws on the back side of the case and you want to put those screws in you
don't want to put each one and then tighten it down you want to put all four
screws in partially or most of the way I would say about 90% of the way and then
make sure that your power supply is seated properly make sure that the
cables are out of the way and then tighten those down all the way at the
end of it do you want to that way you don't bend something or get something
moved out of shape so you want to you want to basically tighten those down
about 90 to 95% of the way and then go back after you get all four of them in
and tighten them all down and then you want to make sure that they're all
tightened properly on the PowerPoint here it says use a cable ties to secure
the cables out of the way I don't really use a cable tie to move them out of the
way sometimes I use a a velcro strap to move them out of the way but in most
cases I just lay them out of the way I don't tie anything down at this point
because I have other things to put in I want to make sure that my cables are
able to stretch the right locations so after we get the power supply put inside
the case the next thing that we're going to do is we're going to install the CPU
the heatsink and the fan assembly so you're going to install the CPU but
before you do that and before you start picking up any parts you want to be very
careful about electrostatic discharge and in previous videos I've talked about
ESD and how little electrical static being discharged can really hit our
really devastate or destroy a piece of electronics so you
want to make sure that you're using electricity Matt some some paper some
people will tell you that you can do just a matte or just just a wrist strap
but if you're wanting to be very cautious you want to lay the mat out
that little alligator clip right there there it's on that end right there
you're gonna tie that to the case a metal part of the case you're gonna clip
that on so that any electrostatic discharge is going to go into the case
and it's going to dissipate it's not going to go into the electronics piece
so you want to use a strap you want to use a mat you can use both of them some
people will tell you that you can use either or and I've watched a lot of
people where they never even use any of them and you may handle electronics a
hundred times and on that one hundredths and one time you may get an electric
discharge and I'll get some discharge and destroy that piece of equipment and
if you've just spent a couple hundred dollars on a CPU you don't want to have
to have that not work because that's just gonna make you have a bad day so
make sure that you are properly grounded you want to use the markings on the CPU
and motherboard to align and install the CPU based upon which type of socket you
have you want to make sure that you don't force anything all of the CPUs can
only go in one direction and there's usually gonna be some corner piece that
you can tell there's gonna be you can you can look at like here you can see
like a corner piece there and you can look on the other side of the CPU and
see which side goes in you want to make sure that you're not forcing anything
you don't want to hear any crunching or anything like that or any pops
again you don't want to force anything you just put it in nice and easy you
also want to make sure that you're putting in thermal paste or thermal
compound in between your CPU and your heatsink so when you go to put your
heatsink in you need to have that heat that's gonna be generated by this cpu to
be transferred to the heatsink and you want to make sure that you have the
proper amount of thermal paste on there you don't wanna have too much because
you don't have gooping up all over your motherboard but at the same time you
want to have enough so that that heat is transferred properly okay so we have
opened our case we put our power supply in we've put our CPU our heatsink in our
fan is Emily n we're next going to talk about installing the RAM
and when we go to install our RAM in our computer there are random access memory
you want to make sure that you're putting that in the right way
it's also very sensitive to ESD so you want to be careful about handling that
you don't want to put your fingers on the gold tips you do not want to get
your are all humans have grease or some type of uh you know we all have grease
on our hands whether we think we do or not we can go wash your hands but we
still have grease on them so some people use special gloves to wear when they put
on their you want to make sure they're not using like cotton gloves or things
like that but there's special gloves that you can buy to handle electronics
I've never used gloves before as you can see in the previous picture that we've
got um over here let me go back to the previous slide here there's special
gloves that you can use you can do that I've never used gloves and I've never
had a problem as long as I'm properly grounded but you could do that but your
RAM is only gonna go in one direction so you want to make sure that you're
putting it in properly you want to make sure that you consult the motherboard
manufacturer make sure that you're putting it into the right slots and you
want to push it in don't you are gonna have to apply some pressure to get it to
be pushed down in but at the same time it's not gonna be that bad you know you
just you push it in and get it to click in and then you're gonna install your
motherboard your motherboard is going to only go in one direction into your case
and you're going to have specific screws that go in in specific spots you want to
consult the manufacturer's information on where those screws go you do not want
to over tighten those and you don't want to tighten them down one at a time you
want to put all the screws in first and what I do is I go ahead and put all my
screws in and I get them about 90 to 95% of the way you tighten down and then
after they're all installed and I make sure everything is got the proper
clearance and it's setting in properly then I go back through and tighten them
all up and then you want you know you're gonna make sure that your i/o connectors
are at the back of the the computer they're lined up properly as well okay
so after we get our motherboard installed we are going to install the
internal hard drives and depending upon which hard drive you put in you may be
putting in it you know what a five and a quarter or you may be putting in a newer
SSD drive depending on if it's a smaller SSD drive you might have to have some
kind of case or some kind of you will have a metal clip that comes
over this that's that that comes down and maybe comes down a little bit that's
got screws down here so that you put your SSD inside that up that case and
then it's gonna slide in and then here you're gonna slide that in there's a
screw hole there and a screw hole there and then you slide that in put your
screws in some computers have modular clips so you put the clips on and then
you slide it in and it just clips right in it makes it easy to pull in and out
but you're gonna put that in one way so that you can have your connectors or
going to be have be able to be access to your cables and then you're going to
install your optical drives if you're gonna put a DVD in or a blu-ray drive
you know a blu-ray reader and maybe a DVD writer you're gonna install those in
and though that's gonna go in a particular spot those usually go at the
very top of a heart of a tower case but you can kind of move those around
depending up on your case and that's gonna be some kind of personal
preference where you put that at the very top or maybe put that at the bottom
but you want to make sure that your cables do reach to that okay so we have
installed our cd-rom we've installed our SSD and now we're gonna put in our
adapter cards depending upon what you're gonna be doing whether you're gonna be
putting in a firewire card for doing video recording or you're gonna put an
extra USB card external or internal card to be able to have extra USB inputs or
whether you're gonna put in a TV tuner or something like that that's really
gonna consult the manufacturer - depending on which slot you're gonna put
that in whether it's gonna be the PCI or the PCIe slot those are the two most
common that you're gonna put in and most of our PCIe and you're just gonna put
those in make sure that you take off the the extra spacer in the back of the
computer the computer case and then put that in if you're gonna put a wireless
NIC card in most desktops are gonna put in some type of wired NIC card or
network interface card but if you do put a wireless and you're gonna put that in
it sometimes those have a antenna off the back of it you're just gonna find
the right slot for that and then you're gonna put that in you're gonna install
your video adapter card if you have annexed if you have annexed an extra
video card a lot of motherboards have internal video cards or built in video
cards but gamers and people that do like what I do with a video recording I have
a video card in mind an AGP well an older AGP now I've got a
PCI Express and I want dual monitors so I've got a video card with dual monitor
dual DVI coming out the back and so I put in the next door I put in an extra
video card that has dual DVI coming in on the back so I put that in and then I
had to just a just a side note of caution sometimes you have to go into
the BIOS and disable the onboard motherboard or the onboard video that's
on your motherboard so that your video card will work now after we've done that
we're going to connect everything up to the motherboard the motherboard does
require power to operate so you're going to connect your power supply to your
motherboard they're gonna relay the motherboard relays power to other
components and the adapter cards you're gonna refer to your motherboard
documentation to make sure that everything's compatible that you're
right power supplies going where on there you're gonna align the proper
connectors press it down into the motherboard he does take a little bit of
pressure you know when you're pushing it down right in there and you're it's only
gonna go one way so make sure that you're lining it up properly so you
won't don't want to break anything and also I sometimes put my finger
underneath the motherboard so that I don't push down too hard and crack the
motherboard you don't want to put too much that you're breaking the
motherboard but at the same time you have to apply a little bit of pressure
so it can be difficult so if it's not going in properly and it's not mean
you're having to push too hard then something's wrong stop and check it but
don't you know don't use force on it don't use too much force on it and now
you're gonna connect your power to your internal hard drives your case fans that
you know whether you have a molex connector or your 15 pin SATA connectors
you're gonna put all those in you're gonna align the proper connections
you're gonna need you know hook your fans up and make sure that those have
proper power so that you have a good cooling to your computer case and then
you're gonna connect your internal data cables you're gonna go to your SSD
drives your regular drives you're gonna install the front panel cables that's
your power supply by a power supply button your USB connectors that come off
the front of the case and you're gonna connect those to the motherboard as well
and then you're gonna reassemble the case you're gonna put the sides on what
I usually do is leave one of the sides off or the main side off I don't close
my case back up until I make sure everything is working I go ahead and
leave my case off because I don't want to put it on I forgot to connect
something properly and then and then take the case back off so just
as a side note that's just what I've done in the past I have just leave the
case off or the side of the case off until I know everything is working
properly you just want to make sure all your cables are connected make sure if
you've connected any USB make sure that your video cables are connected properly
and then boot it up and then you're going to go to the next stage after that
which is booting the computer and the BIOS and the UEFI settings and the next
video which will be part two we'll cover that so this is the end of part one I
hope you hope it was helpful for you and if you have any questions or comments or
feedback just leave those in the comments below
and I hope you have a great day
you