Not Too Much About Me And Why I Have Built This Site.

  I have gained my PC know how just from reading PC magazines regularly and from my own experiances using my own PC. I bought my first PC way back in 2001 from that large but small sounding PC company that does not exist any more, and although it was quite a good machine I found that it was made of cheap parts and there was not much room in it to make it perform better. Windows XP had just arrived on the market and the Internet was begining to boom. I did not know how to do hardly anything on the PC apart from switch it on but I quickly learned lots of stuff and found it to be relatively simple, I can remember having a problem with my internet service providers software and calling them up for help and I was aked to remove and reinstall the software, but they told me to save my bookmarks first, I did not have a clue how to do this but the nice lady talked me through it and I was able to save my book marks to a floppy disc, (remember them? modern PC's these days do not have a floppy disc drive) I was then able to reinstall my favourite bookmarks back to the software after re-installing it and keep a copy for future use, obviously as I saved more bookmarks I had to update my saved file, I still have that same file today although it has grown by a great deal in size over the years I have not lost one bookmark. You can read more about saving your book marks later on in this site.

 I have put this site together because a lot of people I know have come to me and asked for help when they are having problems with thier own PC's and in the past I have managed to help them out and solve thier problems and saved them from an expensive repair bill at their local PC shop.  

Why I built It Myself.

 As I have explained earlier my first PC was shop bought and cost quite a tidy sum but I later found it was made from cheap parts, it had an Intel Celeron Processor or CPU, 20gb hardrive and 250mb of RAM and ran on Windows XP operating system that had just came out and although at first it seemed to be ok, after a few months of use, installing programs and adding files it seemed to be very notibaly slower than when it was new, I kept getting error messages on the screen that my meeory was being used up, so I went back to shop to find out if there was anything that could be done and I was told that I could upgrade the RAM and add another bigger hard drive and although these items could be bought for around £100.00 it was going to cost another £150.00 pound in labour charges to have them fitted at the shop and I would also be without my PC for a week or so whilst this was being done so I decided to buy the parts and fit them myself after first doing some research and asking some one that I knew. When I was feeling brave and had some time on my hands I opened my PC case and looked in, there was not much to look at, a large circuit board with some cables going in to it and some smaller parts that were screwed on to the case, hard drive, CD Rom drive, power supply etc, I could see where the RAM was fitted and that it was not going to be too difficult to insert the RAM module into the empty slot on the mother board, with a little bit of pressure it just clicked in to place, then I placed the new hard drive on to the rack underneath the existing one made sure that the jumpers were set correctly, master and slave, located and plugged in the ribbion cable, it only went in one way and then plugged in the molex cable for the power supply, I then put the cover back on plugged all the leads back in and switched on with my fingers crossed. The PC to my suprise started up ok and was much quicker than before, it booted in to windows and was ready to use. That was easy I thought to my self, I have saved myself not only the cost of labour charges but also the time that I would have been without my PC. I had this PC for about two years and although it was quite reliable it was just not powerful enough for what I wanted to do. I was burning CD's and I had more burn errors than good CD's there was no DVD recorder on it and the RAM memory was at its max for the motherboard so I decided that I wanted a knew one and decided to build it my self, it was just a matter of choosing the right parts and putting together. I did however read PC magazines such as Custom PC, Web User and PC Active and learned all about the componants of a PC and what they did and how they worked, I found these magazines very useful and a good read.   

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