Newbie asking more questions!

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Firstly the motherboards I have bought dont come with the little jumper setting
devices (small plastic covered jumpers!) Will I have to get these seperate to
set up all the jumper settings.

Also with Thermal Compund do you apply it to all of surface of the heat sink
where it will be over the CPU or just the bit that the templates show you to
cover. (This is for we socket A, AMD Processor)

Also I want to transfer the hard drive contents on one of my old hard drives to
a new one and then format the old one for use in an older machine. If I do it
via a simply copying info from one to the other it wont copy certain windows
files and so wont be a perfect copy over. How can I do this without spending
loads on certain pieces of software that do it out there.

Lastly do I need a case fan. As long as my CPU and my PSU are directly cooled I
dont really need one for the case do I? I ask because the RAM I have purchased
comes with a heatsink...but I dont see the point in that when there isnt a case
fan. Thoughts and opinions please, remember its a 512 DDR 3200PC RAM, AMD 2600,
160GB HD, simple 16MB Graphics Card CD ROM Drive and thats it!!! And the other
will be the same except 2500, 8 MB Graphics Card and two hard drives 13GB and
1GB!!!!!!!

Many Thanks

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Firstly the motherboards I have bought dont come with the little jumper
setting
devices (small plastic covered jumpers!) Will I have to get these seperate to
set up all the jumper settings.
Click to expand...

It should come with all need jumpers useally in the right position.
Also with Thermal Compund do you apply it to all of surface of the heat sink
where it will be over the CPU or just the bit that the templates show you to
cover. (This is for we socket A, AMD Processor)
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The heat sink may already have thermal pad, if so ne compound is required.
You may have to remove protective covering sheet on thermal pad. If compound
is needed, just very little where heatsink touches CPU.
Also I want to transfer the hard drive contents on one of my old hard drives to
a new one and then format the old one for use in an older machine. If I do it
via a simply copying info from one to the other it wont copy certain windows
files and so wont be a perfect copy over. How can I do this without spending
loads on certain pieces of software that do it out there.
Click to expand...

Use Ghost or Drive Image http://kickme.to/fosi or http://www.sling.to/fosi/
oops.. it is not there anymore, you will have to find yourself. To image
new hard drive, set as slave and connect on same IDE cable as old master.
Run Ghost or Drive Image boot disk and make image.
Lastly do I need a case fan. As long as my CPU and my PSU are directly cooled I
dont really need one for the case do I? I ask because the RAM I have purchased
comes with a heatsink...but I dont see the point in that when there isnt a case
fan. Thoughts and opinions please, remember its a 512 DDR 3200PC RAM, AMD 2600,
160GB HD, simple 16MB Graphics Card CD ROM Drive and thats it!!! And the other
will be the same except 2500, 8 MB Graphics Card and two hard drives 13GB and
1GB!!!!!!!
Click to expand...

No case fan is needed but some people seem to like the extra noise/cooling.

-Kent
 
Firstly the motherboards I have bought dont come with the little jumper
setting
devices (small plastic covered jumpers!) Will I have to get these seperate to
set up all the jumper settings.

Also with Thermal Compund do you apply it to all of surface of the heat sink
where it will be over the CPU or just the bit that the templates show you to
cover. (This is for we socket A, AMD Processor)

Also I want to transfer the hard drive contents on one of my old hard drives to
a new one and then format the old one for use in an older machine. If I do it
via a simply copying info from one to the other it wont copy certain windows
files and so wont be a perfect copy over. How can I do this without spending
loads on certain pieces of software that do it out there.

Lastly do I need a case fan. As long as my CPU and my PSU are directly cooled I
dont really need one for the case do I? I ask because the RAM I have purchased
comes with a heatsink...but I dont see the point in that when there isnt a case
fan. Thoughts and opinions please, remember its a 512 DDR 3200PC RAM, AMD 2600,
160GB HD, simple 16MB Graphics Card CD ROM Drive and thats it!!! And the other
will be the same except 2500, 8 MB Graphics Card and two hard drives 13GB and
1GB!!!!!!!
Click to expand...

You may have to find some jumpers, but lots of boards now set up the cmos
and do not have but one or two jumpers to set.

To transfer the contents of the hard drive, go the the maker of the hard
drive web page and download their free utility disk. YOu will be able to
make a bootable floppy from this and you can make an exect duplicate of the
contents of the old drive to the new one.

For the thermal compound , all you want is a very thin coating on the
heatsink. Too much is usually worse than not enough. The goal is to fill up
the microscopic gaps between the two objects.
 
On 13 Dec 2003 16:10:34 GMT Singing Yo-Ho-Ho and a Merry KMA
Firstly the motherboards I have bought dont come with the little jumper setting
devices (small plastic covered jumpers!) Will I have to get these seperate to
set up all the jumper settings.
Click to expand...

They usually have enough on the board.If not any local computer
supplier should have some :)
Also with Thermal Compund do you apply it to all of surface of the heat sink
where it will be over the CPU or just the bit that the templates show you to
cover. (This is for we socket A, AMD Processor)
Click to expand...
Only to the raised Athlon core.I mere smidge spread thin with a
Plastic credit card or the ilk.

Also I want to transfer the hard drive contents on one of my old hard drives to
a new one and then format the old one for use in an older machine. If I do it
via a simply copying info from one to the other it wont copy certain windows
files and so wont be a perfect copy over. How can I do this without spending
loads on certain pieces of software that do it out there.
Click to expand...
Go to any of your hard drive maker's sites and they usually have and
they usually have a freely downloadable program for this.If no see sig
for e-mail address :)


Lastly do I need a case fan. As long as my CPU and my PSU are directly cooled I
dont really need one for the case do I?
Click to expand...

Yes.At least one back case fan is recommended.They are cheap to buy.
I ask because the RAM I have purchased
comes with a heatsink...but I dont see the point in that when there isnt a case
fan. Thoughts and opinions please, remember its a 512 DDR 3200PC RAM, AMD 2600,
160GB HD, simple 16MB Graphics Card CD ROM Drive and thats it!!! And the other
will be the same except 2500, 8 MB Graphics Card and two hard drives 13GB and
1GB!!!!!!!
Click to expand...

Good bookmark to read,
http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardwarecentral/tutorials/

HTH :)



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Sidmon said:
Lastly do I need a case fan. As long as my CPU and my PSU are directly cooled I
dont really need one for the case do I? I ask because the RAM I have purchased
comes with a heatsink...but I dont see the point in that when there isnt a case
fan.
Click to expand...

Don't take this wrong, because you're a newbie, but just so other readers
know - this is ridiculous logic. That's like saying you don't want a job so
you won't have to pay taxes. Think about this for a second - your CPU comes
with a heatsink and fan, right? Where do you think the warm air goes?
Without a case fan, the air in the case just keeps getting warmer. Then, a
heatsink is even more important. But then, RAM probably doesn't need it if
it has good air flow to begin with. See where this is going? Bottom line -
if you have a power supply, then it has a fan and you have some airflow.
Many systems, especially cheaper ones, work fine just like this. But it's
better to have a fan - for example in the bottom front - to get cool air
blowing in exactly where you want it, not just sucked in through random
nooks and crannies, without knowing over which part of your motherboard the
small amount of airflow will be going.
 
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