My 2009 Computer Build

More cable management. I always find getting the cables tidy is the most time consuming bit of a build, and I usually end up throwing away as many cable ties as I use!

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Bit of a delay on the final pics rest of the build, this one wanted to fight me a bit and I ran into a problem or three :( However, everything is now back on track, and Windows 7 is in the process of being installed (for the second time).

Thanks for the links for the Racks. I will have to purchase 1, 2 or one of those 4 drive 3 bay racks. Not sure what I'll go with yet, but I'm sure I want one.

I can finally finish this off now. Here is the old and (what I thought was) the new:

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This is trying to figure out why the big case fan in the top won't run, and all the 12cm case fans are running very slowly:

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Here I'm running the fan on a bench power supply, to show that the fan works:

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And the answer was, in big "Duh" moment, that Antec, in their wisdom, saw fit to use Molex fan connectors that aren't keyed, so they can be fitted either way round. Yours truly, had connected red to red, and hooked up every single fan to the 5 volt rail :rolleyes: :o :o

Here is the final finished rig, after discovering that one of the optical drives was DOA, and that I still have to have a floppy drive, even in 2009. I needed to reflash the BIOS to make best use of my Stepping D0 CPU, and despite what it says in the manual, it just would not do it from a USB stick. As soon as I used a floppy the old-fashioned way it as updated in a couple of minutes. On reflection the floppy will still be useful for my virtual machines.

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Oh yeah, and I had to rearrange the drive caddies too, because the trayed caddy fouled the top of the case when I tried to put the tray in :(

Checking the temps:

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Windows 7 up and running:

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On VDr for the first time :) :) :)

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Wow...nice set up...did NASA call? I sincerely hope I know what I am doing some day to try something as this.