Will Rickards
Storage Is My Life
So here is where I want to record my recent computer build notes.
I used the Antec NSK2400 and a Q6600 and XP x64.
I'm typing this from it all installed. I started about 9pm last night. It is now 4:30 am.
Anyway some photos of the horrors I have now:
http://willrickards.net/images/
You'll see in that photo that some part of a PCI card's pins is cut/broken off. Yes I had to use scissors and pliers. The freakin' scsi card was too long and hit the heatsink for the northbridge or something. Those pins were unused (there were extra after the pci slot ones). But that isn't all. I tried to hook the scsi cable to the card and the port is at the top of the card. Guess what is too high. The scsi cable plugged in to the internal port of the card. Can't close the case. F***. So I routed the cable to the external scsi port and back into the case. It works.
I ended up using a different PSU than comes with the NSK2400. I used an antec ?triopower? 430. I sent my psu from my old computer in for RMA and that is what they sent as replacement. Since I was using the 380W psu that came with the nsk2400 in my old computer while waiting for the rma, I just left it in there. But now I'm sort of concerned because the 380W antec had a fan in the back and this 430w one has a fan on top. I think it kind of screws up the airflow for the chamber with the cd drive and backup hard drive. We'll see if that hard drive is significantly hotter than the others. I have speedfan monitoring them all.
I used nlite to slipstream my drives onto the cd. Worked great. Except the CD I had supposedly had SP2 already on it. But the CD nlite made identified as SP1. So I don't know what happened there.
I decided not to pull over my ATI X300 card and just use the onboard video. No DVI for right now. But I don't think I notice.
The motherboard in case I didn't say in this post is a gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R. Stock intel cooler. 4GB 667 RAM (4 sticks). 1 Fujitsu 15K scsi drive, 1 250GB seagate sata drive, 1 optiarc cd drive, another 250GB seagate sata drive in a sata hotswap bay thing.
I also bought a new scanner, epson V200 for the 64 bit support.
okidata said my old B4200 printer will work emulating a HP laserjet 6. I wonder if that will work via USB or I still have to use the parallel port.
Well with all this work, hopefully my random computer lockups will be gone. Too soon to tell though. But everything is freshly installed. Almost got all the software on it already.
And I bought an i-rocks usb hub with that corsair 8GB flash voyager GT drive. It is usb 2.0 and accepts my SD cards. Can I just say I had no idea how much faster usb 2.0 really was but now I do. Downloading photos of the build (loving the macro mode on the D40 btw) was like 2 seconds rather than 2 minutes.
Well all the parts are cleared out so I can go to sleep now assured that my little kiddies won't be mucking with the internals of my new/old computer.
All for now, zzzzzzzzzzz
I used the Antec NSK2400 and a Q6600 and XP x64.
I'm typing this from it all installed. I started about 9pm last night. It is now 4:30 am.
Anyway some photos of the horrors I have now:
http://willrickards.net/images/
You'll see in that photo that some part of a PCI card's pins is cut/broken off. Yes I had to use scissors and pliers. The freakin' scsi card was too long and hit the heatsink for the northbridge or something. Those pins were unused (there were extra after the pci slot ones). But that isn't all. I tried to hook the scsi cable to the card and the port is at the top of the card. Guess what is too high. The scsi cable plugged in to the internal port of the card. Can't close the case. F***. So I routed the cable to the external scsi port and back into the case. It works.
I ended up using a different PSU than comes with the NSK2400. I used an antec ?triopower? 430. I sent my psu from my old computer in for RMA and that is what they sent as replacement. Since I was using the 380W psu that came with the nsk2400 in my old computer while waiting for the rma, I just left it in there. But now I'm sort of concerned because the 380W antec had a fan in the back and this 430w one has a fan on top. I think it kind of screws up the airflow for the chamber with the cd drive and backup hard drive. We'll see if that hard drive is significantly hotter than the others. I have speedfan monitoring them all.
I used nlite to slipstream my drives onto the cd. Worked great. Except the CD I had supposedly had SP2 already on it. But the CD nlite made identified as SP1. So I don't know what happened there.
I decided not to pull over my ATI X300 card and just use the onboard video. No DVI for right now. But I don't think I notice.
The motherboard in case I didn't say in this post is a gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R. Stock intel cooler. 4GB 667 RAM (4 sticks). 1 Fujitsu 15K scsi drive, 1 250GB seagate sata drive, 1 optiarc cd drive, another 250GB seagate sata drive in a sata hotswap bay thing.
I also bought a new scanner, epson V200 for the 64 bit support.
okidata said my old B4200 printer will work emulating a HP laserjet 6. I wonder if that will work via USB or I still have to use the parallel port.
Well with all this work, hopefully my random computer lockups will be gone. Too soon to tell though. But everything is freshly installed. Almost got all the software on it already.
And I bought an i-rocks usb hub with that corsair 8GB flash voyager GT drive. It is usb 2.0 and accepts my SD cards. Can I just say I had no idea how much faster usb 2.0 really was but now I do. Downloading photos of the build (loving the macro mode on the D40 btw) was like 2 seconds rather than 2 minutes.
Well all the parts are cleared out so I can go to sleep now assured that my little kiddies won't be mucking with the internals of my new/old computer.
All for now, zzzzzzzzzzz