Firstly the processor was clipped into positon.
The heatsink was cleaned and cliped into place, the fan was dusted and the reattached above the heatsink.
The Powersupply was replaced and screwed into position.
The DIMM Ram memory cards were clipped back into position.
The optical drive, floppy drive and hard drive were reinserted into position.
The soundcard, graphics card, network card and fiddly USB sockets were then fitted into place.
All wires were conected to the hardware.
The anti static connection was removed from the PC case and the PC was connected to its mouse, keyboard and monitor. The mains supply was reconnected.
The computer was turned on to test. There was a series of long beeps. The computer was shut down.
It was determined that long beeps indicated a problem with the ram. So after making the computer safe for working on, the ram cards were removed from the clips and reinserted.
The computer was then powered up again and this time was fully funcitonal;
the disk drives both worked and the system had sound.
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