Leak test successful. No wetness.
Onto the final stages.
DVD burner. I never use, and I don't plan to use, Blu-Rays so I saved $80 by not buying a Blu-Ray drive. As one can see, the bezel goes back on so I don't have to look at the depression left by the drive in the case.
The hard drives mounted in their trays. From left to right: 128Gb SSD, 1Tb WD Caviar Black, 2Tb Corrupted WD Caviar Green that I won't be hooking up quite yet to the mobo because I don't want it having anything to do with initial start up. Going to try and run some recovery software on it after things are settled.
Hard drives with their cables plugged in. Unfortunately, hit another snag. All of the SATA cables that Asus sent with the mobo have a right angle on one side, and straight on the other. The SSD on the top is too far in to accept an elbow side, and the motherboard itself is positioned just off to the side of the grommet that the SATA cables are passing through, and is too close to the case to accept an elbow side, either.
Since the SSD is where the OS is going, I won't be able to just save it for later. Gotta wait for MicroCenter to open and head there to pick up a double-straight ended SATA cable. Luckily, they're only a few bucks.
Be back later to finish the post.
Onto the final stages.
DVD burner. I never use, and I don't plan to use, Blu-Rays so I saved $80 by not buying a Blu-Ray drive. As one can see, the bezel goes back on so I don't have to look at the depression left by the drive in the case.
The hard drives mounted in their trays. From left to right: 128Gb SSD, 1Tb WD Caviar Black, 2Tb Corrupted WD Caviar Green that I won't be hooking up quite yet to the mobo because I don't want it having anything to do with initial start up. Going to try and run some recovery software on it after things are settled.
Hard drives with their cables plugged in. Unfortunately, hit another snag. All of the SATA cables that Asus sent with the mobo have a right angle on one side, and straight on the other. The SSD on the top is too far in to accept an elbow side, and the motherboard itself is positioned just off to the side of the grommet that the SATA cables are passing through, and is too close to the case to accept an elbow side, either.
Since the SSD is where the OS is going, I won't be able to just save it for later. Gotta wait for MicroCenter to open and head there to pick up a double-straight ended SATA cable. Luckily, they're only a few bucks.
Be back later to finish the post.
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