Wiring up your motherboard (cont)
Connect all the casing's cables onto the motherboard.
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These cables should be labelled 'power switch', 'hardisk LED', 'power
LED', etc. Just follow your manual's instructions. BTW, these are the cables that
prevented me from sliding out the tray from behind 'cos they are too short.
You can start to slot in your PCI and ISA cards into their respective slots.
Next, arrange your hardisk, floppy disk drive, CD Rom and screw them into the cage near
the front of your case. Connect your IDE cables for your hardisk and floppy disk drive to
the IDE bus. Normally, Bus 1 is for your hardisk and BUS 2 is for your CD Rom. The Floppy
disk connector will go to its own floppy disk bus.
Back of CD Rom
Back of Hardisk
IDE Bus. The chaintech's is
located in front of the ram slots.
You can choose any power cables and plug them into the devices. Your devices should label
which way to connect the cables. If not, at least they should label the voltage for which
pins. Look at your power supply for the numbers to match the colors. Anyway, if you don't
have it, here you are :
Red ---> +5VDC
Yellow ---> +12VDC
White ---> -5VDC
Blue ---> -12VDC
Black ---> GND
Note : Try not to share your power from your fans with your hardisk or CD-Rom.
Check the jumpers. Follow your manual's instructions on what to set.
Now you are almost done. After your last check you can now connect the main bunch of power
cables from your power supply to your motherboard. The cables are all bunch up with
different colours. Again read your manual ! Make sure you don't insert the wrong way ! It
should be able to slot in only in one direction.
Connect your keyboard, mouse, etc first and always leave the main power switch to the
last.
Now cross your fingers and turn on the power. If there is no explosion, good. If your PC
booted and post your CPU's speed, better. If nothing is moving, or something is moving but
don't seem right, don't find me ! Re-check everything again. Remember to unplug the main
switch before doing anything.
Overclocking
