Rick Exploring PC Hardware (2002)

Rick's old basement PC, partially disassembled

I mucked around with an old PC I had in my basement. I had most of it apart (the hard drive and floppy), and I spent an hour removing the connectors, just to see where all the wires went. I learned a lot. By the end of the evening, I had it booting in Windows fine.

The old system's case opened up, showing the internal components
Old System
An AMD K6-2 processor removed from its socket
An AMD-K6-2
Checking the CPU fan on the old system
Fan Check

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rickumali@gmail.com — originally published 1/7/2002