When we last left our hero, he was in BIG trouble. OK, I'm no hero, and I wasn't in big trouble, but it sounded cool. Anyways, if you remember back to about 30 seconds ago (more if you have dialup, but whatever), you remember that we had
-An ugly light
-Ugly Cable mess
-Bad Switch Placement
So, how did I solve this? The easiest was the light. I simply bought new cool blue lights:
Cool, huh? Anyways, the cable mess took a little more thought. My original idea was to put shiny wire loom in there, but it appears that no hardware stores in my neighborhood have heard of wire loom, let alone, shiny wire loom. Defeated, I went home to think. Then I thought of the idea to put clear vinyl tubing around the cables. The hardware store knew what that was, and even knew the price. I cut the side, so that i could fit it around the cables, and went to town, or city, or whatever. It wasn't too hard, and in the end I came up with this:
The third and final problem I faced was that of the switch. Luckily for me, a new switch had arrived with my new lights. But no panel. Hmmm, what should we do? Oh look, you haven't used your Zip drive in months, you need a place to put a hard drive and you happen to know where to get a 3.5" disk panel? AND your dad has the required 3/4" drill bit? All Right! Anyways, long story short, I installed the switch on the drive panel and put it into the space. It ended up like this:
That was it. My computer was complete, for the time being. Here were the Specs:
Intel P4 Processor 2.4 Ghz
512 MB RAM
120 Gig HD
2x 20 Gig HD
ATI AIW 9800 Pro
AOpen AX4B Pro-533
Modware 80mm Case Fan
Promise Ultra133 TX2 Card
BenQ DVD-ROM
Acer CDRW Drive
Obligatory Floppy Drive
5.1 Surround sound system
AOpen F70PS 17" LCD
Sound Blaster Audigy LS Sound Card
Antec Cyclone Blower Fan
Chapter 3
Chapter 1