Ongoing New Build of Silverstone LC 16M Comments / Help Needed (1 Viewer)

[Daveoxo]

I’m a newbie to building a htpc, and just ordered the following equipment
I’m going to be running the latest version of medial portal
Can anyone please help me with the following questions?

1) Once I’ve built/ assembled all the components and start to in stall operating system do I have to do anything special to get the SATA hard drive recognizes and or installed

2) Does anyone have any feedback on my selection of equipment?

3) I would like to be able to run the Hauppauge WinTV HVR1300 to be able to get the following
UK Satellite Sky TV - via scart to RGB input
UK Digital Terrestrial Freeview
UK FM radio
Receive relevant EPG
I’ve heard that I can’t get all three at once? Unless I use media portal (which I intend to do) any help on this one

Case - Silverstone LC16M Case Silver
Power Supply - Zalman ZM460B-APS ATX Noiseless PSU 460W
Motherboard - Abit iL-90MV i945GT, S479, DDR2 533/667/400, SATA I, SATA RAID, MODT, uATX, VGA
Memory - Crutial DDR2 PC2-4200 • CL=4 • UNBUFFERED • NON-ECC • DDR2-533 • 1.8V • 128Meg x 64
Intel Core Duo T2500 Socket479, Yonah, 2.0GHz, 2MBCache, FSB667 Retail
250 Gb Samsung SP2504C SpinPoint P120, SATA300, 7200 rpm, 8MB Cache, 9.0 ms, NCQ
TV Card - Hauppauge WinTV HVR1300 Analog & Digital MCE PCI Kit c/w Remote and nVidia *Gold* DVD Decoder
Software - Microsoft OEM Windows XP Media Centre 2005 SP2B (Release 2) - 1PK
DVD - NEC AD-7173A-0B Labelflash Black 18x DVD±RW Dual Layer inc 12x RAM Oem
Software - Nero Burner with LabelFlash
Keyboard - Microsoft Media Centre Keyboard
Mouse - Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 - Moonlight Silver

 

[bbackx]

Argh, the silverstone LC16M. I have the same case, and I still regret spending all the money on that case
It looks nice, but there is just not a single form of sound dampening in a €260-case (without psu). This is just NOT exceptable.
Apart from that, there was a (known) building error which caused a elektronic short-circuit and costed me about 3 months to get a working case.
The remote is a blessing, it's a fine case. But one I would never buy again or recommend to anyone.

Now, your questions.
1) It's possible that you have to hit F6 while windows-setup is loading to add extra sata-drivers from a floppy, so make sure you have a floppy-drive at hand.

2) Well, you just saw my feedback about the case The rest seems fine, no experience with the tv-card though

3) I would recommend buying a pc-card with CI-interface for your dvb-s. I'm currently looking for the same thing. I think you'll need an other tuner for dvb-t, unless the hauppauge supports this. FM shouldn't be a problem.