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ok i got the fan in. got it set on medium. cant hear it at all. i have it on the top of the case. you know where GM..lol looks sweet. still have the blue one on the front of the case

got the IDE card in hard drive hooked up the mobo/windows installed it A-OK. i did notice a little icon on the task bar. gigabyte raid configure icon... do i need to do anything with that?
i clicked it on and shows the 100gb hdd as slave. i guess its ok.

i got the 100gb hdd formating right now can i install windows on it without makeing it master and the sata as slave?
no big deal i got the case still wide open so i can get to everything.

 

@ddp

thanks ill give that a try. im about 3/4 done formating the IDE drive

i'll go into bios change boot to disc drive 1st then the ide 2nd then sata 3rd...will it show in the bios which HDD is which?

 

rob I'm a little confused and you know it doesn't take much. You want your 100GB IDE HDD to be your "OS" drive or the 250 SATA?? If it's the SATA then you need to set your 100GB to Slave and the SATA will do its deed. On the other hand if you WANT the 100GB drive to be your "OS" drive then you will need to set it to MASTER. You may have to go into the BIOS to set that drive (100GB) as the BOOT device as well but I'm not sure. Someone else mentioned that if I remember right.

You likey the Antec?? I have a GREEN one in my AMD build and you can't hear it at all... As a matter of fact you can't hear that computer when it's running at almost any time. It's whisper quiet with the Corsair psu, 2 case fans, and cpu cooler fan (Zalman ZM-F2) with the TR Ultra 90.

@ALL,
I need some help choosing a mosfet cooler for my mobo. Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3P, I pretty much have the NB and SB heatsinks chosen but some quality input on the mosfet cooler would be appreciated. tia....

...gm

 

once i get xp onto the ide hdd. before i change bootup order back to the hdd first should i then change master and slave? is there a slave slot on a sata drive? jumper pin???

 

NO it will follow protocol somehow. Smarter than me tech is what I call it. lol.

...gm

btw thanks ddp for your help...

 

@GM
yes i want the 100gb ide hdd to have my OS and use the 250 as slave and storage

i gotta get me 2 more of them red fans. and then a cosair psu. looking at the 520w hx i think it is

 

ok im in bios now changeing bootup

i got cdrom 1st
then i guess its the ide(it say LS120 that was never in there before)
then 3rd boot hard disc(that must be sata)

 

so once i get the OS on the IDE drive i just set that as master and leave the sata alone?

 

Yeah, I don't think there are any jumpers on SATA drives.

I am a vampire and I am looking in the city
But the pretty girls don't look at me
Don't look at me
Cause I don't have my fangs
But I have lost my fangs

 

ok im into installing xp and it doesnt show the 100gb drive only the 250gb and asking to do?

 

rob you can go ahead and set the 100 as MASTER now.

ddp normally MOD's don't have the time to answer questions and it's nice to get some "expert" help.

....gm

 

should i exit out of setup then and set it as master?

 

GM, mosfet cooler.

http://www.acousticpc.com/thermalright_hr09u_and_hr09s_mosfet_heatsink.html

 

ok i shut the system down. set the ide as master and now getting ready to start up again

 

ok its still not showing the ide drive as one to choose to install to.

should i unplug the sata drive and try it then?

 

rob that might be your best bet. That way there's no question as to which HDD is getting the business.

ddp,
All I was saying was "thanks".

boozer,
thanks for the link.

....gm