Merry f****ng Christmas. Grr.
Ah, a holiday! A whole day in which to assemble Brontoserver, install Slackware and generally glory in my own cleverness.
Or maybe cleverness isn't the word. First of all, we break out the dremel again and saw a hole in the case so we can plug in the keyboard. Kind of a necessity, a keyboard, and I am not buying another f****ng AT case even if this one winds up looking like swiss cheese.
Okay, then we carefully remove all the dremeldust from the case, and reinstall the motherboard.
Then we take it apart again, because we can't get to the power connector for the drive bays. No problem; we'll just connect it, and not plug the box into the wall till we're done rooting around in its guts.
Problem.
Have we established that this is an AT box? Okay, I know that it has two power connectors, and that if I don't get the black wires together in the middle Brontoserver is going to go spectacularly extinct. That part I understand. I've found the AT connectors coming out of the power supply. I've found the receptacle on the motherboard that looks like so many tiny white plastic mailboxes. I've verified in the PDF manual that took a year and a day to download that this is, in fact, the AT receptacle. I have read the directions: "plug it in." I have placed the plug(s) firmly against the socket and pushed.
Nothing happened.
Okay, we know I'm an idiot. I turn the whole thing around, still with the black wires in the middle, and try again. Nada.
Now to be fair, the socket doesn't really look like any big chunky plastic rectangle is meant to go in it. It looks like it ought to get fingers, like an ATX connector. But I got on the net and looked at some pictures, and clunky plugs A & B really are supposed to go in slot C.
So how come they won't?
*cries*
*sucks it up, and goes to cook supper*
Or maybe cleverness isn't the word. First of all, we break out the dremel again and saw a hole in the case so we can plug in the keyboard. Kind of a necessity, a keyboard, and I am not buying another f****ng AT case even if this one winds up looking like swiss cheese.
Okay, then we carefully remove all the dremeldust from the case, and reinstall the motherboard.
Then we take it apart again, because we can't get to the power connector for the drive bays. No problem; we'll just connect it, and not plug the box into the wall till we're done rooting around in its guts.
Problem.
Have we established that this is an AT box? Okay, I know that it has two power connectors, and that if I don't get the black wires together in the middle Brontoserver is going to go spectacularly extinct. That part I understand. I've found the AT connectors coming out of the power supply. I've found the receptacle on the motherboard that looks like so many tiny white plastic mailboxes. I've verified in the PDF manual that took a year and a day to download that this is, in fact, the AT receptacle. I have read the directions: "plug it in." I have placed the plug(s) firmly against the socket and pushed.
Nothing happened.
Okay, we know I'm an idiot. I turn the whole thing around, still with the black wires in the middle, and try again. Nada.
Now to be fair, the socket doesn't really look like any big chunky plastic rectangle is meant to go in it. It looks like it ought to get fingers, like an ATX connector. But I got on the net and looked at some pictures, and clunky plugs A & B really are supposed to go in slot C.
So how come they won't?
*cries*
*sucks it up, and goes to cook supper*