And it is quiet.
I set up the machine on Sunday. Everything went fine (I installed only CPU and memory before the first trial boot. Couldn't figure out why it didn't boot until I noticed one little two-pin connector that hadn't been hooked up to the motherboard. It was marked "PWR Switch"... .
After that, everything was uneventful, except that because of the configuration of the Antec Sonata case (the internal HDDs mount from the side of the case, not the front), the single IDE cable won't reach both the old HDD and the Zip drive; so I need to get a [round] cable with more flexibility or more space between the connectors.
Unfortunately, the rainstorm yesterday knocked out my DSL line, so until that's repaired I can't update Win XP or any other programs.
Oh, and in the course of moving some of my cards (the TV tuner card, the card reader card) to my old backup box (the Shuttle Spacewalker AK31 with the Athlon 1500+), I managed to break off a blade on the CPU HSF, rendering it unbalanced, so the machine shut down when it overheated. I had to run out yesterday morning to Micro Center and get a new HSF, which isn't so easy these days for a Socket A. But that now seems to work.
Although each time I boot up, it says "Found new device: VIA busmastering controller" (or words to that effect). I've installed the VIA drivers that came with the board, so I don't know what that's about, and inserting the CD doesn't result in successful installation of the drivers. Oh, well, another problem (which will go away when I install Ubuntu Hardy Heron later this week).
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