 All the components are now installed and wired in. The sides back on the case, and to all intents and purposes what looks like a real-life computer like you'd buy from PC World (only better!!!). The next thing is to connect it to a monitor, keyboard and mouse, and fire it up. This is where things get a bit technical, and you do need to keep the instruction book for the motherboard close to hand.
When I hit the power switch, nothing happened! - I hadn't pushed the power cable into the motherboard socket fully, so after a heart stopping moment, I was in business, and the screen leapt into life.
When powering up the computer for the first time you don't get the friendly Windows graphics. Before getting anywhere near that it is necessary to configure the Basic Input & Output System (BIOS). This sounds complicated, but is basically doing things like setting the time and date, and telling the computer how you want it to run.
All BIOS setups are slightly different from one another, so certainly for the first time it is necessary to read the instruction book, and where necessary take take the advise of the manufacturer. If there is something that you're not happy with it is easy to come back and tweak it at a later date.
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