Everytime I get on my computer I like it more and more. I am very thankful that I have such a nice machine. I got something very cool for it a few days ago. Kevin got me a DVD burner with lightscribe for my b-day. I have since put that drive in the computer. I also cleaned it out pretty good as well. I then got to thinking that the inside of my box does not look very good. I picked up some electircal tape and got to work. I tried to plan out how I was going to run all my cables so it would not look like a giant mess when I got done. Most of you know that my cables were a complete mess. so I started taping some cables together and running them down the case. I was also taping them to the case soo it looked even better. Down to the bottom of the case I have to run power to the floppy drive, two sata HDDs, graphics card, the front fans, and one of my cold cathode green neons. I did all of that and had two 4-pin power connectors chilling down there unable to be used. I then ran my cpu fan and sound from dvd drives discretely up the far side of the mobo. So far so good. I did a nice job of hiding my foot long sata cables that needed to go about 3 inches, if that. I then also taped down all my connectors at the bottom of my motherboard so they wouldn't be popping out all over the place. I tried to hid my floppy cable as much as possible but since it is a blue round cable it showing a bit is ok. I ran my dvd ide cable up to the drives. I then pluged my other green neon in at the top of my case. I then ran into a problem. I had one 4-pin connector for two DVD drives (don't ask why I need two). I decide to just hook up my lightscribe drive for now and get a 4-pin y cable tomarrow. Now everything is all done and I hook her back up and make sure everything is running good. Everything seems to be ok but I accidently unplugged my power LED so I have to plug that back in next time I turn off the computer.
Today I tried out the lightscribe drive. I used it just to burn a cd though. The burn went really well. Very fast and the cd turned out perfect. I then designed a lightscribe label to use on the cd. It was pretty simple. If you are unfamiliar with lightscribe you flip your cd/dvd over and it 'burns' a label onto it. It uses the laser from your dvd drive to 'engrave' what you designed onto the cd/dvd. I made the label and had the drive burn it on there. It didn't exactly work perfect since it only wrote half the cd. The bottom half looked good and the top half was well blank. I then updated the lightscribe software and the firmware of my dvd drive. Once I give it another go I will take some pics of what the cd looks like and post them on here. I will also post a pic of the new cable design in my case.
-parker
