Drive Rails on SLK3000B-A mildly retarded monkey could come up with a better design...

[bcoupland]

For any of you SLK3000B owners, i need your help! I can't seem to be able to get the damn optical drive in.

 

[Wisp]

I may have had the same problem, and I certainly shared your opinion of the drive rails. Until I realized you were supposed to slide them in from the front. That thing should come with a a manual.

EDIT: Slightly different case, same idea

Full walkthrough

 

[Tu13erhead]

My friend had the same case, I think. I know it was an SLK something. Anywho, it turned out that you only put a drive rail on one side of the drive. Kinda weird, but it was very easy to install for me.

Good luck!

 

[mdubrow]

SLK-3000B Manual.

I'm at work now, so I can't post pics of my computer, but here's a verbal description slightly (?) better than Antec's.

Contrary to Wisp's comments, you need 2 drive rails, one on each side of your CD/DVD drive (assuming it's a standard height 5 1/4" drive). The mounting rails should be oriented so that the metal tabs (which you can use to pop the drive out of the bay later) are at the front of the drive. Now, the trick is that the drive rails have two sets of holes, one slightly higher than the other. Of course, when I initially mounted the rails, I used the wrong set of holes (mine is an NEC DV-3540A, and I incorrectly tried to use the lower set of holes). A minor adjustment and I was back in business.

To put the drive in the 5 1/4" bay, you have to remove the front bezel of the case (yes, remove the whole bezel, don't just swing open the door). Slide the drive into the top bay, which is already prepped (i.e. Antec ships the case without the the EMI shield covering it) until it clicks. Now, pop out the appropriate bay cover from the plastic front panel, connect power / IDE cables to the rear of the drive, and now you're cooking with gas!

 

[Elcs]

Its a nice system once you learn how to use it.

I never got any description of how to do it with my case and never looked at Antecs site for any info as I expected it to be simple and straightfoward.

Either Antec needs to ship manuals with their SLK3000B's or my supplier owes me a manual. Only took me 1 1/2 hours to figure it out entirely for all 3 bays.

 

[mdubrow]

Originally posted by: Elcs
Its a nice system once you learn how to use it.

I never got any description of how to do it with my case and never looked at Antecs site for any info as I expected it to be simple and straightfoward.

Either Antec needs to ship manuals with their SLK3000B's or my supplier owes me a manual. Only took me 1 1/2 hours to figure it out entirely for all 3 bays.

Don't blame your supplier. Mine was dropped-shipped from Antec and didn't include a manual, either. Judging from the quality of the one I downloaded from Antec's website, I suspect they figured not including a manual was equivalent to including the nearly worthless thing they created. I guess they never heard the expression: "A picture is worth 1,000 words"!

 

[Zepper]

The Antec SLK3000-B is considered an OEM case - commercial system integrators are supposed to "know" how to do things. The manual is available on the Antec site.

.bh.