The Leviathan stirs, Page 5

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In this shot you can see one of the 2gb memory sticks in place, along with the fan motor wiring connected.  I spose I'll have to zip-tie the wires in place.  It's already starting to look crowded in there.
	Now we have 16 Gigabytes of OCZ Reaper HPC RAM; 8 gig for each cpu.  This thing better scream when I get it done. I've heard a couple of people state that the dual processors they've used have made things unbelievably fast.  Couple that with a system disk that has no motion-related latency...well, this is what I designed. What I'm looking forward to is a very short boot-up time;
I had to break down and buy it. This is the first copy of Windoze I've ever purchased. I found that the only thing I could get with a student discount (my daughter-in-law works for the University of Utah) was an upgrade package.  How do you upgrade a machine with an empty hard disk?  So I bought the full release of Windoze 7.  I didn't want to, but I did it anyway cuz I really need a 64-bit OS...and I don't wanna use Vista.
	Stay tuned. This will be the next component installed, along with a conventional Western Digital 500 gb drive and connecting up all the case wiring harnesses, switches, DVD burner, etc.  I wanna put some sort of dashboard on the front of the case so I can see what's going on...like temperature, liquid cooling flow and whatever else I can think of...
...so I had to break down and these.  A thermal/clock controller and a 6-way fan controller.  I also got the SSD and a 500 gig SATA drive installed and connected, but...well, read on.  About upgrading from a bare system: someone on one of the overclocking (something I hope to be able to do...like from 2.4 ghx to 4.0) forums said it was possible to do an installation from a demo version of Windoze to a full release using the same DVD, but I'm not sure about that.  Besides, I'd already ordered the whole thing.  It should be here today along with my Canon 18-200mm lens, returning from the repair center.  That doesn't have anything to do with this build, although I'll prolly use that lens to do the rest of the shots of this diary.
	So here it sits at 3:30 am on Friday, 01/29.  I'm mentioned that it might be a piece a' cake?  Well, to mix up a coupla metaphors, the cookie crumbled.  After getting the the SSD and Western Digital 500 gig hard drive (I had one lying around) I began searching for places to connect the wiring from the 932's front panel.  That's when the fun (if you can call bashing yer head against a brick wall fun) began.  The documentation shows a location for the Power On and Reset jacks, but they're actually pushbutton momentary switches.  The Windoze 7 should arrive today and the "dashboard" components otta be here in by Monday, 02/01/10.  I'd sure like to be ready when the Windoze package gets here.
This is the area that has me scratching my head.  The pushbuttons are clearly marked (by me) but I don't know if the Power On button from the case (white & orange wires) is connected where it otta be (I think.) Then there's the video thing.  I've only got one monitor that can handle the HD video supplied by by the Radeon card.  That's the one I'm using now on my primary workstation.  I've tried using the on-board video signal, both with and without the Radeon installed (and the enabling jumper moved to where I think it otta be, but no joy with anything on the monitor I'm using that I stole from my web server.) I can't find the 1384 Firewire connections to hook to the jack on the front panel, nor can I locate where the Power On and Disk activity LEDs should be connected.  TYAN's customer support opens in 30 minutes.  I think it's time to call for help.

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