http://www.newegg.com/app/Showimage....133-118-06.JPG

 

I'm sure I'm going to start a "why is my computer not working" thread in a few days

here's the case http://anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1993&p=1

 

what does dvd shrink do? how do i back up my dvd's if i only have a dvd+-r/rw? i just bought the same nec 2500a burner as u plan on getting but have no idea how to back my dvd's up

 

http://www.videohelp.com/sefy/?id=backup4.html

start there, and if you have any questions, just ask. oh yea, always use the analysis function

 

Cool. Here's the case I'm using (mine's a little older and only has front USB, not the firewire and audio ports). I don't own any firewire stuff and have a headphone port on my speakers control unit so I don't mind.

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...119-029&depa=1

I'll keep an eye out for the "help" thread. Hopefully it will all go together without a problem. I had a hell of a time with mine cause I'm using 2 WD 10k raptor SATA drives in a RAID 0 for my system drive and I couldn't find the RAID drivers XP's installer wanted. They were on the CD, just not really that well documented.

EDIT: DOH! Link fixed.

 

No more picture.

 

mine wouldn't read any driver from the CD during install, I had to find a working computer and put the RAID drivers on a floppy, after I finally found out which one the driver was.

 

Dammit, you know what I forgot? A floppy drive :doh:

Any suggestions? I dont know of any reliable brands. I'm just looking for reliability here...

 

just yank out your old one :dunno:

 

Yeah, XP's installer won't read from a CD for the RAID drivers, your have to provide them on a disk. Took me a while to find the SATA RAID drivers too, I kept trying to use the VIA IDE RAID drivers and they wouldn't work so XP's installer said I had no HD.

Any floppy will do. I actually forgot mine too when I ordered my computer and just ordered it seperate a few hours later. Thinking back, I'd have probably just run to CompUSA or something and grabbed one if I didn't have one to yank out of an old computer (I wanted a black one so I ordered one). The MB comes with all the cables you need.