Hi fellas,
I'm new to building computers and am lost at where to start. I have with an asus board and a celeron 366mhz prosessor that I took out of an old HP Pavillion 4450 computer and put in a new case with a AIG, #HEC-300AR-T, 300watt PSU. I would like to eventualy give this computer to my children after salvaging some of its parts for a new build. I have one problem though, I just discovered that the CPU fan quit working and am now runing an old case fan as its only cooling along with the power suply fan. I don't know how long the CPU fan has been broken, but my computer has been giving me error masages for a while and also crashing. I orininaly thought it was the hard drive because I heard a loud grinding sound that eventualy went away a while back. The computer seems to be running fine now. I will continue to watch it for a few days.
I want to build a all around computer to be used for some gaming, (I would like to be able to play some of the new war games and car racing games) video presentations, photo editing, word prossesing, and finances. I also don't know weather to make it portable to use for the presentations, or to use my old midtower case with the AIG PSU, or to use a new case for the build. Also my current OS is Windows98se; can I use it? I'm on a very small budget.
BigFin
PS: I have an ATI Radon 8500 agp video card that i tried use ing with my current system, but had problems. I would like to try and use it somewhere.
I'm new to building computers and am lost at where to start. I have with an asus board and a celeron 366mhz prosessor that I took out of an old HP Pavillion 4450 computer and put in a new case with a AIG, #HEC-300AR-T, 300watt PSU. I would like to eventualy give this computer to my children after salvaging some of its parts for a new build. I have one problem though, I just discovered that the CPU fan quit working and am now runing an old case fan as its only cooling along with the power suply fan. I don't know how long the CPU fan has been broken, but my computer has been giving me error masages for a while and also crashing. I orininaly thought it was the hard drive because I heard a loud grinding sound that eventualy went away a while back. The computer seems to be running fine now. I will continue to watch it for a few days.
I want to build a all around computer to be used for some gaming, (I would like to be able to play some of the new war games and car racing games) video presentations, photo editing, word prossesing, and finances. I also don't know weather to make it portable to use for the presentations, or to use my old midtower case with the AIG PSU, or to use a new case for the build. Also my current OS is Windows98se; can I use it? I'm on a very small budget.
BigFin
PS: I have an ATI Radon 8500 agp video card that i tried use ing with my current system, but had problems. I would like to try and use it somewhere.