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January 31st, 2006 00:00

Adding 2nd Hard drive

I bought a 250 GB Seagate.  Has anyone bought a bracket kit to add a second hard drive to a 2400? Any heat issues with adding a second HD?  Also, I read a post that indicated you had to use a controller card to get the HD to read higher than 120GB.  Is this true for my computer based on specs. below?

Thanks to your input in advance.

Dimension 2400   A05 BIOS
2.53GHz Pentium 4 533MHz
640 GB PC3200 DDR SDRAM / Windows XP SP2 / BFG GeForce FX 5500 PCI 

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    rickmktg

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    Posted January 31st, 2006 01:00


    @John2088 wrote:

    I bought a 250 GB Seagate.  Has anyone bought a bracket kit to add a second hard drive to a 2400? Any heat issues with adding a second HD?  Also, I read a post that indicated you had to use a controller card to get the HD to read higher than 120GB.  Is this true for my computer based on specs. below?

    Thousands have added a 2nd drive.  Whatever you read is not correct for your machine with Windows XP SP2.  Hard drive bracket kit on my site, see link below.

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    Posted January 31st, 2006 01:00

    HD braket http://www.issue-resolved.com/
    There is no heat issues with adding a 2nd harddrive

    The onboard IDE controller can use Harddrives larger then 120GB (you just have to have XP sp1 or 2 installed)
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    Posted January 31st, 2006 03:00

    You've certainly got a load of RAM there.  It must take the 2400 all day to boot up doing the ram check.  ;-)
    David
     
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    Posted January 31st, 2006 04:00

    There is no such thing as a ram check.

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