Week 6 - more builds

The hardware was the easy part.

With the 1st PC built up, I could begin to take down the PC's the factory currently use. With that order, the pressure is up a bit. There is always the chance that problems will arise and delay all progress. The first production PC proved to give such a problem. After blowing out a couple of pounds of dust, the first replacement motherboard would not allow us to use the memory configuration of the original board. fortunately, the Dell PC was easy enough to get parts for. We found and ordered a 64 bit board that did fit and allowed use of the memory configuration as well as providing ample connections for all of the other hardware including the new drive.

 Hard disk drive
 Memory cards
64 bit motherboard showing processor expansion slot and heavy duty cooling apparatus for processors and video cards.
Solid State Drive
Plenty of room- expansion slots


Upon reassembly, the PC did not want to boot up, forcing me to go back into the box and check all connections. Interestingly, the bad connection was at the power switch which I did not remove.

Windows 10 was installed, but the network did not want to connect giving a connection error. The network card was not seated well enough, Both connection problems were fixed before I closed the box again.

The rest of the installs went as expected. I was able to close the box and retrieve the next machine. The day was over, so I will have to build the other two machines later.

I hope to have the other two by early next week. They are identical to this Dell Inspiron desktop.

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