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Installation of John Kern's system

When I recieved all the components for the supplier I then had to put them together.

First, I attached the heat sink retention plate onto the base of the motherboard. I then inserted the processor into the socket, pushed down the lever and clipped it into place. I then applied some Artic Silver 5 (Thermal compound) to the top of the processor and then placed the heat sink and fan module on top of it and then screwed heat sink and fan module to the retention plate. This secured it into position. I then put the motherboard with the CPU already attached into the base unit case and screwed it into place. I then placed the power supply unit in the correct position inside the case then attached it to the case using the screws provided. I then connected the ATX power connector to the motherboard.

Then I started installing all the other components into the motherboard. First I chose to install the graphics card. I did this by inserting it into the PCI Express x16 slot and then securing it by screwing the card into the case. Below is a picture of me placing the card in the PCI-E slot:

And here is a picture of me screwing it into the base unit case:

Below is a close up of the the 256MB nVidia GeForce 6800 GT after installation:

I then installed both the SATA hard drives John wanted. I did this by pushing them both into the case's 3.5" drive bay. I then inserted a molex power connecter into each one and then attached one end of the SATA cable to the first hard drive and attached the other end to the motherboard's primary SATA interface. I then did the same to the other hard drive with another SATA cable but attached it to the motherboards secondary SATA interface.

Below is a picture of me pushing the hard disks into the hard drive bays:

And here is a picture of me inserting the molex power connector and the sata cable into the hard drive:

Then installed the DVD-RW drive. I did this by sliding it in through the front of the case in one of its 5.25" drive bays and then connecting the audio cables and the IDE cable to the motherboard. I connected them both the the primary interface. Below is a picture of the front of the system after I had finished installing the drive:

I then installed the 1 gigabyte of RAM John required. I did this by placing the two sticks of 512MB into the motherboard's dual channel DDR slots. Below is a picture of me installing the RAM:

This is what the inside of the case looked like after I had finished installing all the hardware:

I connected up the keyboard and mouse into the back and plugged in the DVI-D cable from the monitor into one of these two sockets:

I then plugged in the power supply and booted up the system to do a POST test. The system PASSED the POST, below is a picture of system start-up:

I then went into the BIOS and configured it so that it would boot from the DVD-RW drive ready for installing the operating system.

It was then time to install Fedora core 4 onto the primary SATA hard drive. This is the primary operating system. First, I inserted the Fedora installation DVD into the DVD drive.

The system then booted from the DVD and loaded the Fedora installation user interface shown below:

I then chose to install in graphical mode by pressing the <ENTER> key. I followed the instructions and chose the most appropriate options for installation for John. Below is the installation in progress...

After the installation was complete I was instructed to reboot the system. When the system loaded I created John a user area and gave him a password. Below is a snap of the log in screen:

I then entered the user area and configured the system...

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