No 2 Daughter's young man (Ben) asked whether I wanted his old, but still fairly new PC. No charge, gratis zilch etc. Some bits are missing having been used in his new media centre.
It arrived on Sunday.
It is an Antec Sonata case with an Asus Mb, AMD 64 3000+ CPU with 1Gb RAM
I need to find Hard, Optical and Floppy drives. No problem.
The Mb has 2 SATA ports plus 2 UDMA 133 ports. I already have a UDMA133 Samsung HDD but my CDRW and floppy are Beige and the case is black.
So I ordered from those nice people at CCL 1 Samsung 250Gb SATA HDD, one LG SATA DVD writer one IDE CD/DVD ROM and a black Sony Floppy Drive.
CCL deliver by CityLink
(who guaranteed delivery by today)
Did anything arrive?
No
Looking through the box of bits that came with the PC I find that Antec use a special HDD mounting screw to pass through the rubber bungs in the HDD mounting tray. For 2 HDDs I need 8, I've got 3
Phoned Ben, they are out.
Sent an E-mail to Antec Europe Support (we will answer your question within 24 Hours).
Have they replied?
No
Waited in all day for CityLink, and also for the man who said he would come today to quote for fixing a misted up sealed double glazing panel.
Did he arrive?
No
Bin day tomorrow, just been out to get things ready and the heavens opened
my flash white polo shirt (£2.50 in Primark) is soaked.
Not a happy bunny.
Be warned.