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I wasn't really in the mood, but because I said I was going to do it in a comment to a post in codefreez's livejournal, here it is.




A. 3 gig main boot drive (Maxtor) and 20 gig (Samsung) media and application drive. Relocated here from 6 inches higher so that I wouldn't have to take out my ram to mess with the drives. Room for one more hard drive.

B. A pair of "Intel Celeron Inside" stickers for the dual celeron 400 processors that are hidden behind the bar between labels F and K.

C. 4X SCSI burner (Plextor) that only reliably burns at 1X. I only keep it so that I can burn perfect copies and because it uses no processor when I burn.

D. 52X ATAPI cdrom (Samsung) pulled from seiryu_16's machine after I installed her 52X burner.

E. 20 watt amp pulled from a pair of blown computer speakers, with treble, bass, and volume knobs. Incoming audio signal is from the blue wire in a "J" like shape just to the right of label K.

F. 4" 10volt case fan pulled out of a vax mainframe during freshman year of college. The vax was run by Macalester college until its demise, then given to Pete Wiringa a few years later. He hauled it across campus (it had wheels and weighed around 200 lbs.), and we gutted the beast. I got two identical 4" fans (this is one of them), along with a handful of smaller fans and some heat sinks.

G. Nvidia Riva TNT 16 meg. It likes to run really hot.

H. Buslogic Multimaster SCSI2 controller. Got for free with a 4X SCSI cdrom that was picked up from ebay for $10 (incl. shipping) in the fall of 2000. Works great.

I. Nidec Gamma 35 blower. Used to cool the TNT. Before the blower (and the fan before that), the TNT would lock up the computer after 10 minutes of normal GUI use. Underclocking the video card did not help the situation. Cooling it better did.

J. Creative Labs Ensoniq Audio PCI sound card. Works great, and has multi-channel sound output in Windows. That is, I can have multiple copies of winamp open, all playing different songs, and listen to them all. When you get to 15 copies of winamp, you know you've gone too far.

K. Relocated drive cage. The power supply immediately above it was swapped physically in order to bring the hard drives closer to F for better cooling. Currently contains a 40 gig media drive (Samsung) and a 120 gig media and app drive (Maxtor). The 120 gig is split into two 60 gig partitions, one for me, and the other for Annie. Our wedding video (which we haven't gotten around to editing yet) is split amongst the two drives (it was filmed in 3 pieces). Though it may not seem necessary, the 120 gig drive runs VERY hot and had caused lockups before being placed adjacent to F and L. Room for 2 more drives.

L. One of two fans located behind the drives in L

M. External SCSI2 enclosure with 1 gig drive installed for backup purposes.

N. Spare 1 gig SCSI drive, swapped with drive in M every few months.

O. 8 gig (Western Digital) IDE drive, waiting for a spare weekend to replace the 3 gig boot drive (Maxtor)

P. Crashed 2.7 gig Seagate drive from my parents. Looking for equivalent on ebay to swap electronics and recover data.

Q. Broken Nintendo, used as monitor stand.


Not labeled/pictured/hidden:
2xCeleron 400 processors hidden behind the bar between F and K.
Dlink 10/100 ethernet card is so small, it is hidden behind H.
The Abit BP6 motherboard that runs this thing. 4 IDE channels for up to 8 IDE drive love.