I’m a big proponent of DIY PC building and I tend to describe it as “relatively straightforward.” For the most part, everything just plugs in where it should. But there is one aspect of putting ...

It’s a truism that a computer must boot before it begins to operate. Nowadays that bootstrapping process is automatic, but in the case of the very first home computers, it was very much a hands-on ...

I have a Dell Dimension 4600 that has none of it's original parts, with the exception of the mobo & CPU. I tried to turn it on the other day and nothing happened. The only noticable sign of life is ...