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That's what worries us all.
Go for it. You know you want to dig into it yourself. If my 61 year old father can roll his own, so can you.
Go slowley, read the fucking manual, and keep yourself grounded.
Start off with just the motherboard, cpu, Vid card, memory, and hard drive.
If your running XP pro or 2000, this is the state that is best for an install.
Either way, once all this is put together, pull out an old dos boot disk, turn the machine on, and dive into the bios to set all the correct settings. Things like cpu multiplier, agp speed, and boot order. Get the bios set how you forsee wanting it.
Then move on to the OS install. Install the OS as you want (and no you don't want a partitioned drive, one large drive is less work for the actual drive to do)
Now run the driver install programs for the motherboard. Do them one a a time, and make sure they function.
Tweak as you see fit once all drivers are installed from the motherboard maker.
Do not yet install any programs
Now, shut down, and add say the network card. Turn it back on, feed windows the driver, make sure it functions. Wipe hands, repeat for each pci card.
Now you may install your programs.
It should be obvious why this system works for easy identification of where you made a boo-boo.
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