2012-10-11, 01:39
Finally received my hardware yesterday. I ordered the same MOBO, CPU, RAM and PSU as Spencers has described (thanks for all your info Spencers and others). The posts on this forum and others have been very helpful.
The case is tight indeed and cabel management is a challenge. I got the 12" SATA cables which seem to work fine. I could not tie them together though as they were kinda tight. Like described in previous posts I plugged in one of the two fans in the MOBO the other directly into the PSU.
With the PSU hanging out the back it was quite easy to connect everything. The molex connectors did not connect very well and I used the PCIe connectors instead which fitted better (not only in the socket but left more room between the wall of the case and the connectors as my case had horizontal connections).
I am a newbie to all of this and had a hard time reconfiguring my BIOS to boot from the USB. It kept on booting into the UEFI BIOS but after fiddling with it I managed to set it up. Booted up fine into the server. I am now into setting up the network settings. Initially I was able to access the tower from my laptop but after setting a static IP address in my router for the server I cannot see the tower anymore. I assume I will have to change a setting on the server. If anyone can advise me on this that would be great!
To be continued...
The case is tight indeed and cabel management is a challenge. I got the 12" SATA cables which seem to work fine. I could not tie them together though as they were kinda tight. Like described in previous posts I plugged in one of the two fans in the MOBO the other directly into the PSU.
With the PSU hanging out the back it was quite easy to connect everything. The molex connectors did not connect very well and I used the PCIe connectors instead which fitted better (not only in the socket but left more room between the wall of the case and the connectors as my case had horizontal connections).
I am a newbie to all of this and had a hard time reconfiguring my BIOS to boot from the USB. It kept on booting into the UEFI BIOS but after fiddling with it I managed to set it up. Booted up fine into the server. I am now into setting up the network settings. Initially I was able to access the tower from my laptop but after setting a static IP address in my router for the server I cannot see the tower anymore. I assume I will have to change a setting on the server. If anyone can advise me on this that would be great!
To be continued...
