Cheap Crappy Computer

I bought old used computer parts to build a working computer, I think in total it was about $60~75.

List of components that I bought

  • Asus p5kpl/1600 Mothboard
  • Intel Pentium E7500
  • Nvidia GeForce 9600GT
  • 500Watt Power Supply
  • 160GB HDD
  • 3x 1GB DDR2 RAM
  • Computer Case
Since the grapnics card didn't have the thermal grease on, I putted on.

Then I installed CPU and the RAM to the motherboard.and then I putted the thermal grease on.

When I was trying to install the motherboard, it didn't fit well because of the pins hitting something, So I desoldered the pin and bend it a bit.
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After that Installed the grapnics card and the PSU.
When everything was ready I tried to boot the system, but it didn't seem to work because I didn't hear the beep sound from the beeper. I googled for some answer and it told me to try to boot with only 1 RAM module installed, I tried it and it made the beep noise, but there was another problem, I bought this DVI to VGA adapter, but it didn't work. I gave up for a while until I found this instructabls that told me how to convert from S-Video to analog video signal. I build it and it worked like a charm, but it was hard to read any kind of small text.

After I got the video signal installed windows 10 normally but when I tried to install other grapnics drivers, windows just freezed. I tried rebooting several times but it didn't help. So instead i decided to install windows 7 because I though it might run better. It did install and it worked well.

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