Originally posted by: BaboonGuy
It's the Antec Sonata that comes with it's own nice PSU.
BoboonGuy is correct..... I went with the Antec Sonota case with it's own 380W power supply.
Okay, now for the hilarious problem I encountered (I probably shouldn't even tell this on myself, but wtf!)
A little background info before I start....
Up until about one month ago, I had never even looked inside a computer case.... My neighbor has built three now, and was always telling me about his experiences. I love to tinker with almost anything, and he finally got me interested enough to go for it..... I had an offer from him to help me anytime I needed it, but wanted to do it on my own.... So, I done some research, posted a thread here, and finally decided on the components I was going to use.... I purchased everything from Newegg.com, and when everything finally came, I put it aside, read all the manuals, and decided that I would give it a go when I was on vacation (Last Friday-Today). Sat. morning I cleared off the kitchen table, and went to town.
The build went great..... I took my time, and everything went like clockwork. When it was time to install the hard drive, I noticed that I didn't have another IDE cable, so after checking my motherboard manual, I decided I would go with the SATA adapter and cable. Got it all taken care of, and decided that the build was now complete.
I hooked it up to the monitor, fired it up, and was very pleased to see all the fans working properly, etc. I begin setting the bios (the only thing I really changed was the clock setting), and was finally ready to load XP Home Edition. Put the disk in, and got an error "Hard Drive not detected" ---- Hmmmm, back to the manuals..... Okay, I gotta hit F6 and install the driver that came on a floppy with my mobo.... There are four drivers, wonder which one I need? Couldn't find an answer to this anywhere, so I just picked one, and XP finally started loading..... It was a great moment!
When XP got the the point where it had to restart the pc, I was prompted to remove the floppy, and XP would resume loading when pc restarted..... Okay, pc restarts, and set-up started back from the very beginning..... This is odd, uh oh, Hard Drive not detected error again..... Perhaps I loaded the incorrect driver (there were 4) so I continued to try the other two that were for XP, and had the same problem each time.....
I searched the manuals, microsoft's website, western digital's website, and here, but could not find an answer anywhere...... I was very frustrated, and finally decided to wait until Tues. (was out of town Sun. and Mon.) to resolve this issue..... I picked back up where I left off on Tues, and got nowhere. I FINALLY broke down and called Western Digital's tech support, give them all the information, and began describing to the kind lady what was happening..... When I got to the part where about the SATA connection, the kind lady says, "Uhhhh, you don't have a SATA compatible hard drive!" and I say, "Uhhhh, shot who??? My hard drive isn't SATA compatible???? Well, Ummmmmmm, NEVERMIND!"
So, a trip to my local pc store for an IDE cable, resolved what had been driving me CRAZY AS HELL for 3 days!
I REALLY hate to admit to that mistake, but like I said, I basically had no clue what I was doing when I started this, and it ended up being a very rewarding experience! I also learned to get my hard drive connection issues straight before hooking anything to them in the future! LMAO
Thanks again!
victory!
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