Assembling a computer - main procedure

I guess by now you must have understood the importance of all the parts of the computer. Now comes the main part of assembling the total components into one system that is called the COMPUTER.

Though very tedious job to do, assembling is an interesting task. You should have a lot of patience to do this. I am mentioning the procedure for now and later on when i assemble a system, i will take the photographs and keep you updated.

1. Open the cabinet, take all the screws out. NOTE: Place all the screws in one place, and remember which screw did you take out and from where? otherwise this is going to drive nuts out of your brain.
2. First of all group all the components that are to be kept together like the hard disk and cable, DVD drive and cables, and the important one is motherboard and the processor.
3. Now let us fit the microprocessor into the motherboard and proceed further.
4. It is better recommended that you take the help of any hardware person to embed the processor into the motherboard. And if you wanna do it by yourself, try to dare new things and go on. Below is a picture of modern day motherboards
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6. Handle both the motherboard and processor with care. Assure that there are no other things surrounding them and just have a grasping look at the processor pins and the socket in the motherboard where you will have to place the processor. check the picture below for you to get the exact picture.
   
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9. Just match the corners so that the processor fits into the socket without any difficulty. Re-assure there are no gaps between the processor and the socket. if so, that is going to be a mess. Fit the processor into the socket and leave it for some fraction of seconds. And you will have a metal cover in the modern motherboards to lock the processor as shown in the figure below.
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11. Take the Heat sink (coolant fan) for the microprocessor and assure that you place that in correct position and Just lock the heatsink on two sides where it has clips. You can understand by the below pictures.
12. The heat sinkThe clipping at the sided of the heat sink. Sorry to copy the pictures from other sites. I will upload more appropriate pictures soon.
    

This the the picture of the motherboard fitted with the processor and heat sink.



13. Now the main part is ready. Now have a look at the inner sides of the cabinet and back side.
The motherboard has slots to pin in the mouse connector, So the assembly will be as shown in the figure below

If at all you are aware of the normal power sockets, you can analyse the power pins that come from the SMPS and there are main connections that are to be done from SMPS to motherboard. you should be aware of that connections. I will post all of them in the next post with a neat workout diagrams.