A Walkaround Your Computer

Welcome back to Beyourownit.com’s fourth video, or fifth. I’m losing count. I’ll try to keep the camera a little more steady this time as watching my last video got me kind of nauseous. Part of it is that I never used a camcorder before honestly and I just got this one so I have to work out the kinks.

As I was uploading the last video I noticed I had an email request asking me to‑‑while I had the computer open‑‑point out what everything is. I’d be happy to do that. We have a little bit of a wiring. It’s a little busy in here but you should get the point.

I want to start all the way around the right here. Here’s the hard drive mounting rack and also where you see RAMs will be found. You’ll see two set of hard drives. That’s the type of hard drives they are, actually three because there’s another one right here.

Hard drives, you can put in any way you like. I typically like to have a little bit of room for them. As you’ll notice here in the corner, I have a fan to keep them cool. This particular one up here actually has a hard drive cooler on it. Sometimes other PCs did that all the time so I like to be safe.

Up here, you’ll see the base with the CD ROMs plug‑in. You’ll see the back of one and there’s actually a DVD ROM but it doesn’t matter you’re using, DVD ROMs, CD ROM, CD burner, they all go there.

Up here, this is the computer’s power supply, sometimes notorious for going out and causing problems as this computer here shows. I’m just fixing this computer for a friend. You’ll see right here, it got a little warm. That’s from their power supply going bad.

What would have been a $30.00 fixing up could end up costing this computer. You always want to blow the dust. They really accumulate dust. As you can see, this one is brand new, super cheap. I got it from some MPC or something like that.

I wouldn’t recommend running a Codegen power supply. I recommend to get something a little bit better. Here’s the brain of the computer, really the CPU does all the processing. What you’re really seeing here is the fan.

Below the fan, the heat sink which is the aluminum piece under there that help disperse heat with the processor. The processor is often quite small. Here’s your RAM and your slots here so you know what those are.

Here is AGP videos port in red if you’re going to have a higher end video card in there. I use on‑board on here because it’s just the file server and I don’t game on it. You’ll see all the PCI slots here in white. I use that for network cards, sound cards, pretty much anything other than video.

I don’t have a PC Express one on here, which is the new format for video cards but that will be right here where the AGP used to be. The red piece underneath where everything plugs in is the motherboard, pretty self‑explanatory there.

This is the case, the aluminum piece housing and all. All these pieces are pretty much necessary. The RAM obviously, computer or the CPU video card, all these things is pretty bare bones what you’re seeing right here.

On the front, you’ll see the floppy drive. That has its own little port right here and 99% of cases are set up exactly like this. This is a real generic case but things may look a little differently to you when you’re looking at yours but you’ll know what they are.

I always recommend, open the side of your computer every once in a while and getting a can there or something in there and blow the dust out of there. I don’t know if you can see, this is dusty. These fans are dusty so that’s why I have it open here and decided to do this video as well.

I was cleaning it. The dust point has build up in here and a few fans stop running, that’s when component start getting brown and starting to smoke. I hope that helped you sirs and ma’am. If you have any other questions, remember Beyourownit.com.

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