Well 4 hours in the shop yesterday and I got it together enough to be able to run it with the two halves just sitting next to each other on the work bench. With just the fans running it wasn't too loud. However I discovered one of the 92mm fans has a bad bearing. And it's pretty odd because it was highly noticeable but that fan had been in use in the tower and I hadn't heard it. And when I connected the hdd to power I found out why. Oh dear does that thing make a racket. It's an old drive, 8.4 gig maxtor. It's tempting to use the money I intended for an xp 2400+ for my main system on a new seagate, but I think I will have to make do with it. Or run the OS on the capture drive, which I'd rather not.
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