Intro time. Fairly new to working on computers rather than just playing games. I have experience of repairing old 8bit machines but decided to step up and play with the big boys.

im putting together a number of pcs to cover a range of operating systems and general specs etc but the one that's giving me some headaches and prompting me to join this group is my Dell slot1 motherboard. From what I understand it's based on the intel al440lx board. A previous owner has already relocated the atx power socket but it seems they butchered the area around the power on switch pin headers. I'm...

Hi. Looks like a found a great community group here and hopefully I can learn a lot without annoying too many people with ‘stupid questions’

i have recently found myself tinkering with old computers (zx spectrums etc) but have now migrated into pcs and such. I have a bucket full of graphics cards that I want to test and repair if possible and that’s my main reason for joining.

im fascinated by this board view thing and hope that files are available for the stuff I plan to work on.

please standby for a barrage of dumba$$ questions.

thanks...