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5 width="200" height="258" alt="9.gif (34441 bytes)"> On to the cables.

There’re cables for the hard disk, the floppy drive, and for COM and parallel ports

(if they are not onboard). The cables have to be correctly aligned. Look for pin number 1,

marked with a "1" on the board for each connector. Align this to the red/blue

line on the cable

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6 width="200" height="164" alt="10.gif (21710 bytes)"> The motherboard is all

done. Keep it aside for a while. We now need to fix the drives into the cabinet. Place the

hard disk, the CD-ROM drive, and the floppy drive into their respective slots and put the

screws in place

7 width="197" height="146" alt="11.gif (19861 bytes)"> height="132" alt="12.gif (13195 bytes)"> Time to put the motherboard panel

back into the cabinet. The cabinet closes only when it’s put the right way in
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8 width="197" height="160" alt="13.gif (24443 bytes)"> height="161" alt="13b.gif (28112 bytes)"> height="138" alt="13c.gif (28560 bytes)"> Now connect data and

power cables to the drives. Data cables go in only one way. Insert them such that the

red/blue edge is near the power socket. Likewise, the power connector goes in only one

way. The power connector for the floppy drive is smaller than that for other drives

9 width="200" height="141" alt="15-1.gif (24226 bytes)"> height="163" alt="16.gif (25777 bytes)"> The PCI and ISA cards go in now.

Take special care connecting the audio cable to the card (its other end goes to the CD-ROM

drive). These connectors are very small and can tax your patience
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