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I will start the thread by posting pics of my new computer.
I have made a couple of changes since I took these pics. I have replaced the Trios drive selector for software (System Commander) and have added a ZIP drive (above the media card reader).
- Amd Athlon 2000+ XP CPU (1.633 ghz) @ Athlon 2100+ XP 1.733 ghz
- Crucial PC2100 512 MB of DDR RAM
- Shuttle AK35GTR Motherboard
- OCZ Tech Dominator 2 Cpu Cooler
- Arctic Silver 3 Thermal Compound
- Lian Li PC-65 USB ATX case with factory installed window
- Antec PP412X 400 Watt PSU with RPM monitoring
- Lite-On 16x48x DVD
- Lite-On 40x12x48x CD-RW
- (2) Maxtor 40 GB ATA100 hard drives
- (1) Maxtor 20 GB ATA 100 hard drive
- Lazer LEDs
- eVGA Geforce 4 MX 440 64 MB video card
- Sound Blaster Audigy OEM with 1394
- Silver Faced Floppy
- USB AntecII media card reader
- USB 2.0 PCI card
- (2) Belkin 10/100 Fast Ethernet Cards
- Rounded IDE cables, silver mesh ATA 100
- Lian-Li dual temperature guages
- Iomega ZIP 100 MB
Antec Nine Hundred case, 4GB A-Data DDR2 800 RAM, Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Conroe 2.66GHz, ASUS P5K-E/WIFI-AP MB, XFX GeForce 8600GT XXX 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 video card, ZALMAN CNPS9500 AT 2 Ball CPU Cooling Fan/Heatsink, Seagate Barracuda 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s HDD, Aerocool FP-01 Multifunction panel w/card reader, Zerodba 620W PSU, LITE-ON 20X DVD±R DVD with LightScribe SATA, Samsung CDDVDW SH-S203B SATA, Acer P241W 24" w/s monitor, Canon CanoScan LiDE 35 scanner, Klipsch ProMedia 2.1.
Originally posted by the snake mwkirchner, is that one of those hard drive selectors you have in there ?
how well does it work ?
That is one of those ... however ... I have since replaced it with SYSTEM COMMANDER software. The friend who built this system for me was having some problems with it. We called the company and they told us it was because we were using too long of a flat cable from the selector to the board. He told us we should use the short cable that was included with the drive selector. We had no choice as the hard drives are housed in the lower end of the case. My friend tried over and over to get it to work OK ... but to no avail. He then mentioned the SYSTEM COMMANDER software to me and explained that it would do the same thing ... so I opted to go with it. The reason I even wanted something like that is because I am running 3 hard drives in this computer. I run 2 of the 40GB Maxtors and 1 of the 20GB Maxtors. On one of the main drives I am running Windows ME ... on the other I am running Windows XP Professional ... and the third is used for storage. The third drive is accessible from either system. Just something I wanted to try differently.
I know this is a long response ... but to be honest I never got a chance to really try it out to see if it would do what it said. I have to assume that if the right cable were used ... it should work fine. It is only a switching type box.
