I forgot to mention:
In post #1 screen print it looks like there might be a lighted (blue) intake fan in front of the HD cage.
Also it looks like you have room to add a PCI or PCIE x1 sound card, if you find one that supports Stereo Mix and your PSU can handle that additional load !
There is no intake fan. I think the blue light you see is the power switch. See under medion logo http://aldi.medion.com/md8341/_img/a...en/view_02.jpg
Ok, that explains those 2 "questions".
I can't look at your PC, so i can only guess and ask questions from what i see in your screen prints and posts.
To me it seems like you need to figure out how HD1 is installed and do whatever you can to mount a HD2 similarly.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays :)
OK i took out the disk. There is room for one more hard drive. There is a lot of dust, including under the fan What is the best way to remove dust. I want to clean out the dust when i am putting in the new drive.
Someone asked about the funnel taking air out through a vent in the case. It is fitted properly, just a bit of a funny angle. I am not sure of a couple things - see the pic
Thanks for your help guys . Happy new year to you all
For removing dust, I use aerosol air-duster. Note - they're not compressed air, but hydrocarbons so should be used in ventillated area. Also use upright, or will squirt liquid. About £3 UK/can from Amazon etc.
Pic 3 is SATA power.
Middle picture: that's a jumper block. It's highly unlikely you need to pay any attention to it. The default status would be with no jumpers attached to any of those 8 pins and that should be fine. Look at your PC manual for the odd situation where you might have to use a jumper. A jumper would have to fit down over 2 of those 8 pins, so you'd have to locate a jumper if you needed to use one, but that's unlikely.
How to physically install, set jumper settings, and set up a Serial ATA, EIDE, or SSD drive in Windows | WD Support
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumper_%28computing%29
Right picture: that looks like a standard SATA power connector, not the older PATA/EIDE. Does it have 15 copper contacts on it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA
@wasnotwas there are differentr size SATA's? It is bigger than the hard disk SATA. 16 pins i think?
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