Quick question regarding standoff's.

TomCo · 12-09-2006 5:49pm #1

If you have more stand-offs screwed into your case than your motherboard has screw holes do you leave the unused standoffs screwed into the case for support or do you leave them out?

Logic says take them out they'll short the board, but I want to make sure.

Edit: Im following the case manual and only using the atx holes - 9 stand off's to be clear.

Creamy Goodness · 12-09-2006 5:52pm

was doing mine last night and it only had 8 as far as i can remember

TomCo · 12-09-2006 6:03pm

I have the case manual here, it says for ATX 'engage' the standoffs into holes labeled A1-A9 (9x motherboard standoffs).

The case is a gigabyte and so is the motherboard, you'd think this would simplify such things.

The motherboard manual doesn't mention anything about screw holes or cases at all, and the quick start guide is written solely in French.

SickBoy · 12-09-2006 6:35pm

A standoff per screw. Anything else is asking for trouble....

atheist · 12-09-2006 6:40pm

Take out the metalic ones that don't have a matching hole in the mb and use plastic lugs instead. Most new cases include a few plastic ones in the little bag of nuts etc

PogMoThoin · 12-09-2006 6:51pm

My mobo had 8 holes but by looking at the back of the mobo it had a clear section allowing you to put a standoff in the case hole without a screw. Check the back of the mobo, if it had a clear circular section corresponding with the case hole, use the standoff.

TomCo · 12-09-2006 9:35pm

Thanks guys, it all made sense when I took the mobo out of the wrapper

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The IO shield was a right bitch to put on and I had to take a snips to these pointy things that got in the way.

I paniced a bit when one of the pins on the cooler engaged outside the hole. I was pushing and pushing and nothing was happening. Using the stock cooler as reference I managed to get it installed. Hope I didn't damage the mobo.

The front panel setup was predictably a pain in the arse.

The ram went in way easier than I expected. I always have sore thumbs installing ram in Dells.

All thats left to do is put in a floppy drive and a cd drive.

Two questions, is it ok just to use a lead from an actual kettle for your plug?
And, my HD is OEM so no instructions - I just plug in the SATA power and the SATA data cable right?

Its a western digital drive, it didn't come with a jumper - normal?

atheist · 12-09-2006 9:52pm

Aye but the reverse is not true, computer leads frequently won't
fit kettles, and you'd be parched for a cuppa.:p

PogMoThoin · 12-09-2006 11:04pm

TomCo wrote:

Two questions, is it ok just to use a lead from an actual kettle for your plug?
And, my HD is OEM so no instructions - I just plug in the SATA power and the SATA data cable right?

Its a western digital drive, it didn't come with a jumper - normal?

Yes to both. no jumpers on sata, you sort it out in the bios.

TomCo · 13-09-2006 12:19am

All is well, no problems at all everything was working from the get go.

Well actually the first time nothing happened. I was just about to turn the power button connector around (on retrospect that probably wouldn't have done anything) when I realised the PSU wasnt switched on. What relief!

I was a little concerned that the fan on my Freezer 7 Pro wasnt moving, but then I remembered it was connected to the cpu fan header and sure enough it started spinning after the cpu warmed up.

My usb keyboard won't work though (is this to be expected?), so I headed up to the garage to get a ps2 keyboard. The van was parked infront of my storage locker so I was only able to get it open a tiny bit, after much effort I managed to grope a keyboard and pulled it out. I locked up and headed back into the house, I only realised on going to plug it in that it had some archaic circular connector with 4 big prongs on the end.

My Dell OEM cd works fine too, so thats a bonus. Guess I'll have to wait till tomorrow before I can press F8 or whatever button it prompted for.

Quick question regarding standoff's.

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