I haven’t posted about my computer in a while, but that doesn’t mean things haven’t been happening. It’s all together now, save for a 3.5″ drive bay 7 in 1 card reader than I haven’t got yet.
Here’s the old case before I ripped some stuff out of it.
This is what’s migrating to the new. DVD+R drive, two hard drives, and TV card. The other PCI card there is actually for my 24-bit studio recording sound card. It’s not actually going back in, I’m going to get a new sound card and hawk this one on eBay.
Here’s the new machine with the drives and cards installed, ready to go.
And here I am working on getting it up and running. Yes, that is a floppy drive hooked up and sitting on the floor. Do not do this!
I needed a floppy to work on the hard drive (master boot sector was screwed up, has been for a month or two) before I reformatted it, so I temporarily yarded the drive out of the old machine and used it.
This is a day or two later after I purchased a new floppy drive for this computer. Probably the cheapest component you can get! This new Sony drive cost me $10.
6 Responses
May 5th, 2005 at 7:39 am
Dude, if you ever need a floppy drive, yell at me. I have stacks of them sitting around. I’ll be glad to send a couple (or just one) to you.
May 5th, 2005 at 2:58 pm
Thanks Hans. Maybe I could have gotten it cheaper!
May 6th, 2005 at 6:36 am
Hans,
Would you have had a black one to match Tom’s case? I have stacks of them too but no black ones!
Rob
May 6th, 2005 at 1:38 pm
Good point, Rob. I’d have to dig through some closets to figure out the answer to that question…
May 6th, 2005 at 5:04 pm
Hans, I just noticed that in one of those pictures it looked like Tom had a beige colored CD-Rom drive in his black computer case. Perhaps he is not worried about the color matching the case!
Rob
May 9th, 2005 at 12:56 am
I do like to match whenever possible, Rob, but the DVD drive is a carryover from the old system. So I didn’t have much of a choice on the bezel color.