How to Assemble a Computer

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Gary Malec, and in this video I'm going to show you how to assemble a computer. First thing you want to do is install your mother board. Line the holes up on the board with the bottom here, and put your little set screws in. Make sure you put it in front first here towards the back. Line up the holes. When it's nice and ready, just put a couple screws in where all the holes are. Get a screwdriver and screw 'em down, and then you're going to move on to the power supply. Again, line it up nice and easy. Find the holes where it goes, then screw it in. Next we're going to do the drives. I have two for this computer. Slide 'em in in appropriate spots. Get your drives in, slide 'em back 'til they're flush with the front of the case. Let's see here. Flush with the front. And then they line up with these holes here, and you screw 'em in. Now you have the mother board, the power supply and two drives. Next you're going to want to mount a hard drive. And there are a lot of spots, so you kind of just pick and choose whatever one you would like. Let's see. All along here are all slots for hard drives, so, just find the most appropriate slot. Slide it in. And again, line it up with the appropriate holes here. Now you're ready for graphics and sound and whatever other add-on cards you have. I have a sound card here. It goes in any one of these five PCI slots, six PCI slots. You want to slid it in whatever one you want. Very careful and even with two fingers pressed down. Now that's installed. Here's a graphics card. This is a PCI graphics card, so it's going to slide in a PCI slot. Most likely one on the end, here. Again, two fingers. Pops in. And, there you go. Now you just wire it up. Plug it in, and you're all set."