Antec P180, How to fix the dvd drives into the case?

[DJR]

Sorry, i'm not sure how its done, i am really baffled and can anyone help me out with this? i have a friend who also is in the same position as me.

thank you for your help guys.

[arthurleung]

There should be some drive rails included, you screw the drive rail (black) on the dvd drive then push it into the slot.

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article255-page2.html

[DJR]

gonna try this after work. thanks for the reply arthur.

[vinnyT]

If your case is similar to mine (in that it uses rails), then there will have been 2 types of rail supplied, 1 for the hard disks and the other for the 51/4 drives. The latter have a metal insert with 2 prongs sticking out at right angles, these go in the screw holes on the dvd, then just slide into the case.

Hope this helps.

[Dreaming]

I've got a P180, it's really straight forward. Take the black drive rails, attatch them to the CD drive (before screwing anything in, make sure you've got it lined up properly and it will slide in nicely, then screw them on and just pop the thing in the front.

[DJR]

I finally did it a couple days ago..felt so foolish when i figured it out..lol

[raverbaby]

i still cant ****in do this it's pissing me off now, i think i'll jus buy a load of additions in the summer and get yyt to build it all for me

[vmong]

just screw the screws with the black brackets (the bottom set of rails) and then once its firm, slow it into the drive ans make sure it clickes then you are allset. i did it recently its really easy, although it did take abotu 10 minutes to do lol

[Dreaming]

If youre still stuck later I'll get my camera out to show you how to do it .

[Andrzej]

...slow...

There's your problem right there !

These youngsters always want to shove it in and start using it quickly...

...needs a little patience methinks

[dancingmatt]

You've got 2 different sizes of drive rails. The smaller ones are for an external 3.5" drive, like a floppy, if you install one.

You have to screw a rail to either side of your optical drive. Look in the bag of screws that came with the case, they did supply enough for every rail to be used plus a couple of spares (gotta love Antec's thoughtfulness on this!)

You attach the rails to the drive(s), with the metal angular bit at the front facing outward from the drive. Once you've removed the front of the actual drive bay, push the drive in from the front. The two angular metal bits on the rails will click into place in the front of the case in the little recesses either side of the drive bay.

DM

[Toastmuncher]

Hey I dont suppose anyone knows where I could buy said drive rail's from do they? or if someones got some spare there willing to sell on to me?

Cheers,

Toasty

[vinnyT]

FAO. Toastmuncher, try contacting antec they are more likely able to help (evan more likely to send you some, if you say that you broke the others when rebuilding your pc), at european customer support europe.info@antec.com.

[Toastmuncher]

Cheers will try that. Heres hoping.