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ATX Tower Box |
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This box is approx. $45 and has a 250 watt power supply included. It has 6 panels at the front and is a ATX format.It will also include a reset and on/off button. Some also have a power switch at the rear. |
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Rear of the same ATX Tower |
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Top left are the in and out power supplies. To the right are in fan inlets. Middle left are the knock outs for the motherboards input terminals.Ex. The Parallel ports and USB ports. The bottem knock outs are the inputs for the PCI cards. Ex. Sound or modem etc. |
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The same Tower with side panel removed |
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Both side panels are easily removed. You can see the power supply at top left with its cabled plugs. Top right are the metal holders for the HD and CD roms etc. Below are the metal holders for the floppy drives. |
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Stand outs |
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You use various types of these to add fixing and space from the metal sides of the Tower for fixing the mother board. |
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Mother board with input outputs plugs exposed |
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Placing the motherboard beside or inside Tower to work out which knock outs have to be removed. In this case there are two PS/2 sockets, two USB sockets, parallel and serial ports and also the sockets for the sound card. |
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Here is the mother board, notice two of each type of RAM slots |
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Mother board. We mark out the placement of the stand outs in the side of the box with the mother board temporarily in the tower. |
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Attaching mother board onto Tower box. (onto standouts) |
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Normally you screw 8 to 10 fixing screws to standouts so as there are no area's of the mother board that aren't supported. |
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A floppy cable with twist and a IDE cable, which is larger |
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Cables which plug into socket on the mother board and then into their respective equiptment |
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AMD CPU with ZIF socket |
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The silver handle to the left is the zero insertion force socket for handle opening the socket up for the insertion of the CPU. This is normally inserted before finally fixing the mother board in. |
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CPU's cooling fan and heat sink |
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A low voltage cooling fan whose rpm and temp running's are monitored. Must be installed carefully as can damage CPU and mother board by being careless. Install before fixing mother board in. |
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Installing CPU fan and power cable |
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The title says it all. You must position fan on correctly on the CPU paying attention to the correct contours of its base. Also it must be clicked home firmly on a level steady base. |
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PCI Network card |
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PCI network card can be slotted into one of the various free PCI slots, having removed its associated knock out |
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CPU fan |
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CPU fan showing its connection plug. Notice the four RAM slots to its left |
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CPU fan again |
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Just a picture showing the fan in relation to other parts on the mother board |
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Mother board power supply |
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Mother board power supply from Transformer, will normally only plug in one way |
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Installing the SDRAM |
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The RAM can be fitted in after the board is mounted in place. Notice that one RAM has one slot in its base and the other two. |
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Graphics card |
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A graphics card which plugs into the one AGP slot |
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Rear look at motherboards outlets, in Tower box |
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Close up of the PS/2, USB and other outlets |
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PCI slots in Mother board |
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5 PCI slots with this Mother Board |
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Hard Drive |
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Top of Hard Drive showing its configeration and type |
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Transformer power cables |
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Showing the bunch of cable from the power supply |
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IDE cables |
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IDE cables IDE 0 and IDE 1 plugged into their respective sockets on the mother board. IDE 0 is for the Main Hard Drive |
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A computer tool kit |
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This quite a good tool kit for about $20. You still need a wrist strap for earthing. |
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CD Writer |
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This is a CDRW, they are the ants pants now |
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Internal speaker cables and front panel power connectors |
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What else can I say but read your connection booklet to get these hooked up correctly. |
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PCI device |
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A close up of a PCI card in its socket |
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Rear of Tower |
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PCI ports at rear of tower, AGP video and Network card |
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Rear of Hard drive and CDRW |
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As it says in the heading. You can see the floppy cradle below. |
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Floppy cable |
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Inserting the Floppy cable into its drive. The upper plug is for drive A |
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Inside view of the motherboard |
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You can see the cable connectors to the HD |
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