Old Mini Tower Rebuild; Cable Connections To Mimi (7inchx7inch) Motherboard
by Kermit
(El Paso, Texas . U.S.A.)
I have this compact tower, lots on the inside; CD Burnner 1998 date of manufacture, Floppy Disk drive; 2 Quantum Hard drives, a 98 OS, Mother Board Power TX APM9600. 250watt SupperSource Power Supply.The second hard drive is slaved to the CD drive The Master HD has its own Ribbon Cable same for the floppy Drive. I do not know if is the proper connections of the drives as it has been played with! (My Sons)
Problem this is my first rebuild; due to restrictions in the mother board bay the only mother board that will fit is a Mini.
Have decided to use a mini mother board that has an atom processor soddered to it, for simplicty and cost restrictions. The mother board has a IDA port for up to 2 Devices. Also 2or 3 Sata device connectors.I would like to use a IDA 40Gig hard Drive from a second defunk computer for the main hard drive as it has a windows 98 Service Pack OS on it; just so I can save the OS, a second 250Gig SATA HD is in the works. Will be using the new round cables.
I want to run the orignal CD Drive wihch still funtions I think on the same Ribon cable as the 40 gig hard drive mastering the hd and CD drive as slave can this be done?
Plan on using the orignal 250watt power supply with adaptors for sata power and install a fan in the front of the case as currently the cooling is only the power supply and the heatsink fan.
On the front of the tower ther are 3 buttons. and leds one power; turbo, reset, then there is this green neon light thing that reads 208. there are no markings on the tower indicating who made it.
On the template for the motherboard are large letters that appear to be EE.
YOur suggestions please?
Thanks again for your website and great e-book.
