Assembling The HTPC, Continued
Contents
- 1. Wishful Thinking? Silent Home PC For TV, DVD, Recording And Internet Connectivity
- 2. Selection Of HTPC Components
- 3. Memory, Hard Drive And Burner
- 4. Let's Get To Work: Putting Together The HTPC
- 5. Assembling The HTPC, Continued
- 6. Assembling The HTPC, Continued
- 7. Problems With The Serial ATA Interface: The Hard Drive Is Only Good For The Recycling Bin
- 8. Software Installation
- 9. Last Fine-tuning
- 10. Functional Test In Stress Test
- 11. Stress Test, Continued
- 12. For The Pentium M - Mission Impossible At First
- 13. Waiting For An Update
- 14. Assembling The Second System
- 15. Better Heat Dissipation In The Stress Test
- 16. Sample Configurations
- 17. Unusable System Components, Continued
- 18. Unusable System Components, Continued
- 19. Conclusion
5. Assembling The HTPC, Continued

Not much elbow room between the ATX connector and the front ports


Cabling the front connector for USB and FireWire
To get an expansion card into the Hiper Media Chassis, riser adapters are included with the case. These allow PCI or AGP expansion cards to be installed at a 90-degree angle. Obviously, no card would fit into the flat case vertically. The riser adapter thus allows at least one expansion slot to be used.

Because the TV tuner card for PCI is mounted rotated 90°, you need this adapter with a ribbon cable (included in the package)

Now the TV tuner card can be mounted flat
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