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[Note that the construction took place in a sort-of-unfinished guest room, which is unsightly to begin with (with its Tarkovsky-esque (e.g. & e.g.) walls) and became truly messy during this process (see below)....] Gutting the H266 and T700: First task was to gut the H266 for the PowerLeap folks, leaving in the motherboard, CPU, video card, and floppy and CD-ROM drives (and putting the faceplate back on...):    Since the T700 was going in the trash, I removed everything I thought I might ever be able to use -- as well as the rendered-worthless-by-Dell-idiocy-motherboard, which I stuck on the wall over my desk with black pushpins:   Which left lots of loose components lying about...  Building the 1GHz Athlon: The 3DCool Tornado is so cool -- well-designed and beautifully machined -- I of course began by taking it all apart:  First installed the CD-RW, harddrive (the 4GB from the H266), floppy drive, and tape backup in the case bays -- which was WAY overly optimistic: all were removed during subsequent troubleshooting (and I decided to put the tape backup drive in the 700MHz P3)...:    Then installed the ABIT motherboard -- first the studs and then the board itself -- all of course with full kitty support (the benefits of full kitty support canNOT be overstated...):    Nervously installed the heatsink/fan on the Athlon CPU (after chickening out on the Chrome Orb because of the stiff retainer spring clip [more on this later in the coming-soon overclocking section...]):   Slid the motherboard panel into the case ...  Connected up all of the wires and booted into the BIOS setup ... everything looked great ... tried booting from the harddrive ... disaster.... |
