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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (5176)	1/17/1999 10:19:00 AM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Cool, although all beware. I have never seen these square ones before usually they are metal barrels on plastic odd shapes. The SC-750a is a very nice case and comes with all the goodies. Anyone accidently put one in the wrong hole. (Took me twenty minutes to get one out). BTW: I think it would be foolish to mount 2 drives in that tray. They end up touching each other and have way too little room for airflow.... BTW: I put one HD here and two in the Front behhind the global I-Win HD Cooler. Sean

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (5176)	1/17/1999 11:35:00 AM
From: Len	Respond to of 14778

Actually, your mounds are different than my mounds.<g> The ones I was (were?)talking about are actually molded into the mobo plate. They look like little red ant moles (mountains?). A little hill with a hole in the middle. (I'm a master of the visual, huh?) Just to clarify. Len

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (5176)	1/17/1999 7:39:00 PM
From: Paul K	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 14778

I have known the 'mounds' to be called 'cage nuts' (or captive nuts) when variations are used on 19" equipment racks....and they can be removed with your fingers, I just removed one from my PC board mounting plate. If Zeuspaul's picure is any indication corbels.com you just squeeze the two spring-like flanges inward and the nut pops out the back side... I picked up an Addtronics 6890a medium sized tower ($80 COD, w/o power supply), its the next size down from this tower: addtronics.com (the case came with an additional fan... will see if I need it.) I've added the PC Power & Cooling Silencer 275 ATX power supply $119... (I wanted a quiet 34db unit... also the fan has ball bearings.) pcpowercooling.com I'm reviewing three 300a OC combo-prep websites, that have been discussed here in the past, and may order one. But I REALLY want an ASUS P2B-L.... if only they had softmenu setup !