How Do I Connect Jumpleads Please?

Hmm, I've never heard of jumpleads. I did a quick search and didn't find much either. Are they booster cables?

The only thing I found in a quick search was booster cables too.


Are you talking about the tiny jumpers on the motherboard and harddrive? Or maybe the power connections inside?

Jumpers-Yes
Jumpers - Yes Sorry.

I have made up my mind to learn how to put a new computer together within a year, it does not seem complicated (apart from the magazine
articles, which are probably designed to put you off!)

yes please ecplain about my jumpers question.

Sincerely

Alan

Different jumpers do all sorts of different things. For example, one of the jumpers on your motherboard is used to clear your CMOS memory. However, jumpers are usually used to make choices about how your hardware performs which would at certain times be difficult to specify through software. For example there's a jumper on your hard drive that specifies whether it's master or slave on the IDE cable. You can't make this choice with software because a brand new hard drive won't have Windows or anything else on it yet. Jumpers are often specific to certain motherboards, & even with ones that perform very standard functions they're not usually in the same place, & almost never marked. That's one of the reasons you should have a copy of your motherboard manual (or be able to see it online) before you start putting a PC together.

The good news is motherboards & other hardware that uses jumpers will almost always run all right using the factory's default settings.


Assembling a PC is quite easy, but a mistake a lot of people make is they think just because they've slapped their own computer together without any big problems now they'll start doing it for their friends & messing with other people's hardware & such, which often ends up getting them into trouble. Fortunately there's a lot of good, free information about this kind of stuff on the Internet.

It's not difficult because usually you can leave them alone. All you need to move 'em is either small fingers or a pair of needlenose pliers. And also the motherboard's manual to tell you what position they should be in.

Here's a website that may be helpful:

List of lists

http://lists.gpick.net/

On the site there's a section on tutorials that may be helpful.

Check out this free online course.. Upgrading and Repairing PCs - Lessons 1 ~ 24

Jumpers
thanks, Good morning from London

Alan

I am writing in the "Quick Reply" box. But to whom?

As there are several replies on this page, Who are you?

Anyway, whoever you are, good morning from London.

Alan

Thank you Monger
Thank you, the computer self tutor site looks very goos indeed.

Grateful

Alan

Cheers mate.