Basil Chupin schreef:

....called Murphy! :-(

With reference to the thread of mine re SATA 3 and using mobile rack(s) which are SATA 2 compliant, I ordered another such mobile rack on Tuesday together with another 1TB HDD to match the one I bought at the end of April.

So, both got delivered yesterday - and away I went about installing the racks and the HDDs.

Now, one would think that after all these years I would know better and would have checked things out to make sure that everything would come together without hassles, right? WRONG! :-(

The damn racks were too long to fit in the case - they hit the capacitors and whatever on the motherboard so couldn't be used :-( .

OK, so I installed the second HDD just as I did the first one. Great. 2 useless mobile racks now sitting in the plastic bag ready to go into the garage.....

I remove the computer from the workbench and place it in its normal spot where it is used daily. Start it up -- and I have no access to the network :-( . The onboard LAN has suddenly gone belly-up :'( .

Today I managed to find and buy a PCIe network card but then discovered that I couldn't install it because the video card is so damn big that it covered the PCIe slot where the network card had to go. Had to move the video card to another slot. Something which was only a 5 minute job max ended up taking over an hour.

There is more to this saga but I'll stop here :-) .

BC

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