Our First Dissection: Common HP tower

There are so many of these HP Pavilion computers all over the place. If someone says they have an old computer you can have, it will often be one of these, as they were extremely popular.

These are quite compact inside, making upgrading a little difficult, but not impossible--sort of like working under the hood of a Toyota Tacoma after working on a Ford F250....

In the final picture you can see all the parts. Now, each of these parts could be further dissected, and we will post those in the future. Here's what's in the final picture:

• Power supply
• Outer casing
• Hard-drive
• 3.5" disk drive
• Motherboard + CPU
• Modem card
• Sound card
• 2 strips of RAM memory
• Fan (from the CPU)
• CD drive
• Power Switch
• Various wires and other connectors
• About 25 screws