the insides of the comp

[snakebyte_90]

i am a begginer at the hardware of comps. does anyone have a site or diagram or something showing what parts are which,how to install hardware evices,jumper settings,etc. also it would help if i had some advice on building vintage comps from scratch. thank you for this site. it is great.

[diurnal]

Welcome snakebyte
The best way to learn about computers is build one your self. Also read books. As iisbob said in another post Mike Myers A+ certification book can help you out immensely. Go to www.amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com) and search for the book.
Should be about 40dollars, or you might can get one used. SEE YA


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[Manny Calavera]

Hello snakebyte_90,
Well the PCGuide itself can certainly help you out. If you want a pictorial introduction to computer hardware you might want to look at howstuffworks.com. If you don't feel like staring at a computer screen pick up _How Computers Work_ by Ron White. I still have my 3rd or 4th edition copy around here somewhere and it really was a good read at the time.

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[Beno]

Hey,

I'm really interested in hardware as well, and like others have said on this board, the only way to learn computers is to actually build one yourself and make mistakes and learn from them.

One really good book you should buy which diurnal mentioned is Mike Meyers A+ book. Its fantastically written. Put into real layman's terms and makes the understanding of computers really easy indeed.

But what also helps alongside with the book is this forum. There are some very smart technical people that come to this site and if you post good questions, you will always get very good replies.

All the best

Beno

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[YODA74]

this has some diagrams.
http://beals.org/~bandy/730t/servicepac.de.ibm.com/eprmhtml/eprm/237.htm
and scott Muellers 13th edition is good
also here are a few vidios http://www.3dgameman.com/reviews_video.htm

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[bassman]

Another great source of info (pics and text) can be the mobo manule. If you have an older machine with no manule, you can usualy identify the mobo by the BIOS ID string (long number during POST), go to that manufacturers site and download a manule in PDF.
This can be a great benifit as nearly every board model has a different layout for some components.
This will also give you necessary specs like CPU requirments, RAM, Jumper locations,...

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[pentachris]

I learned a lot browsing through the PC Guide, Tom's Hardware (here's (http://www4.tomshardware.com/howto/01q1/010115/index.html) a good place to start), and by running google searches for "build your own PC tutorial" or something similar.

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[AsAGod]

Manny--How stuff works by Ron White is a great book, Snakebyte, also check into the Idiots guide to series and For dummies,, not that you are a dummy, these books are in plain english and are easy to understand. Also, diurnal makes a good point, there is nothing like building one yourselp here is a link for more info. http://www.pcmech.com/byopc/index.htm

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