The Screen Savers - How To Build A PC - Part 4 of 7

Leo Laporte and Patrick Norton of TechTV's "The Screen Savers" take you step by step on how to build your own PC.

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[KulinaryKutZ]

This video is good, but really really old! I mean their excited about 512 megs of ram.

[epicenter713]

'Building' on what Leo and Pat mention here-- there is one more reason to not hook up the IDE (Hard Drive / Optical Drive) cables just yet. A bad IDE device or, on IDE cables that are not keyed and can be plugged in the wrong way-- can cause the system not to boot. I had to find this out the hard way, but it is very common. The fault can prevent the POST Beeps that would tell you what malfunction is occurring (possibly a low-grade short.) Save hooking these cable up til the system has POSTed.

[86touge]

G4 needs to become ZDTV again, they need to bring back all these great shows. and Leo Laporte and Patrick Norton are fucking gods, word up

[Stingshot]

@kavudiego They also say ISA is hardly ever used back then (or today) but truly modern PCs still have 3 to 4 PCI slots and most people fill 1 to 2 of them over time. That technology is still not out of date. Newer motherboards are using starting to and have been using PCI-E 2.0 X16 for every slot on the motherboard for addon cards and multiple video cards. My my have things changed since the late 90s early 2000s

[MBC022]

"modern gray beige" lol

i wonder if the now modern black color will feel old to us in a few years

[TheLarssan]

Old school.

[xfilesmanson]

sim city 4 probably wasnt even released yet when they aired this

[KulinaryKutZ]

Very ture, but now it seems like crap xPP

[apriswajaya]

512mb ram was really good enough those days, could play max payne and operation flashpoint smoothly with that much ram

[kavudiego]

haha and they use AGP and call ISA legacy :P