Hi guys, I am thinking about building my own machine and want to know if anyone out there has reasonable resources for information about motherboards.
The only reason I am thinking of building my own machine is that I have a brand new 250 GB hard drive, a pretty new CD RW, I already have a monitor that is good enough, mouse and keyboard, sound card, Windows XP Pro, blah blah blah. I would like to pick up a bare bones system, case, power supply, motherboard, processor, and some memory, but it is pretty difficult to find that. So, I started poking around looking at possibilities. It is amazing to see just how many different motherboards there are out there and how many different issues you need to be aware of. I saw lots of issues with people saying things like this mobo requires 1.8 volt memory and I only had 2.2 volt memory. Hell, I didn't realize that memory even ran at different voltages. You have to be willing and able to flash the bios when you get a new mobo. Not easy to do if you can't get it to boot first. There is CAS 4 and 5 and blah blah blah memory. If the front side bus is running at this speed you need this and that of that speed. So, I am pretty sure some folks on here have built computers from the ground up, Trouble? victor? does anyone know of a book or web site that can walk a novice through some of this stuff? -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (412) 268-9081 To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml Visit The New Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following Address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
