Add a Graphics Card
Next up was the Hercules Guillemot 3D Prophet II GTS graphics card, which is based on the speedy nVidia GeForce2 GTS graphics processor. First, we had to remove a temporary metal flap from the back of the case, which covered the backplane section of the expansion slot. Here's where those pliers came in handy-for every expansion card we inserted, we had to remove these metal flaps. After locating the motherboard's AGP slot, we firmly seated the card into the slot and screwed the card's backplane to the chassis.
If you don't need screaming 3D graphics, you might be able to get by with your original graphics card.
Testing Your New PC
With the minimum components in place for installing Windows 98, we were ready to power up the system. Leaving the case open, we plugged in the monitor, connected the keyboard and mouse, and plugged the system's power cable into the wall outlet.
We pressed the power button-and nothing happened. We pushed it again-still nothing. We pressed the reset button and the power light lit, the fans started to spin, but nothing else happened. We were puzzled. We shut the system down (using the reset button) and investigated.
We realised that the floppy drive's cable was inserted incorrectly because a plastic knob on the cable's connector was in the way. We removed the extraneous piece of plastic and correctly inserted the cable. After snooping around further, we discovered that the case's reset and power-button cords were labeled incorrectly (thankfully, these cables are also colour-coded), and we switched them to their correct positions.
With all that sorted out, we tried again. Our system successfully booted up (using the power switch), and we were able to enter the BIOS. From there we had to enable the Auto setting for both IDE controllers and enable AGP-4X Mode. We also had to disable the OnChip Sound setting, so it wouldn't conflict with the sound card we were planning to install in step seven.
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