[felix8406]

Except for some cabling management, I'm about done building my PC. I spent closed to $200.00 US and got a Vista experience of 4.9. The last thing I did was to disable two of the 80m fans and install a 120m. Noise level went down significantly and cooling efficiency went up. I'm not planning to install the cover, so I used .020" steel wire to hold the fan in place and right in front of the fan-less video card and the RAM chips; as the air bounces off the motherboard, it gets around the hard drive.

I have not being able to install Win XP on the SATA drive though. It goes through the installation process, including installing the SATA drivers, but went it restarts, it doesn't recognize the hard drive. I downloaded the latest NVIDIA Raid drivers, extracted the files using RAR and copied them to both, a flash drive and a floppy, but still get the same results.

By the way, if you have a damage hard drive, do not throw it away. I had a WD 160GB HD that went bad a while back. Last night I decided to check with Western Digital and they are going to replace it for free...minus postage and handling to send the driver to them. So if you suspect your HD is broken, check with the manufacture…they might be nice enough to fix it or get you a refurbished one.

Correction on the HD; it was a Seagate, not WD.