hello a really good site for getting parts is zipzoomfly.com , the prices are very goodand they offer free shipping on most of the things that they sell. Terrie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Rossi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 10:06 AM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Building your own computer.
> 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 > > > > (Yahoo! ID required) > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > 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/ <*> 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/
