What are these for?

[Garfield]

I have purchased a Chieftec full tower chasis and these tab-looking things came with it and I don't know what they are used for. You can see what they look like here (http://www.newegg.com/app/Showimage.asp?image=11-125-109-01.JPG/11-125-109-02.JPG/11-) and look at the second image. At the bottom of the 2nd image, you'll see about 8 of these things. Can you tell me what they are used for? Here, I attached the image for you to see. What are those tab-looking things at the bottom of the picture?

Another question case specific...
How do you put the IDE hardware (hard drive, CD-ROM, floppy) in this case? I can't quite figure out how. There doesn't seem to be a place to screw them in, and there also doesn't seem to be rails to slide it in. Any help? Thanks!

[flounder43]

Here we go again...

Try this site:
http://www.pcmech.com/byopc/

[Garfield]

Okay, I think they are the rails for the CD-ROM drives.

[RangerJoe]

you screw those to the sides of your cdrom drives, they slide in and out

[Garfield]

Yeah, I got it working...

[cjlax5]

doesnt it come with instructions...? i know my case came with some

[RangerJoe]

did you all know that for a case to be ATX compliant, it has to have drive rail holders in it?? i just found that out, thats why the antec cases have em

[Garfield]

Originally posted by cjlax5
doesnt it come with instructions...? i know my case came with some

Nope. Nothing.

[takiwa]

don't feel bad Garfield, my Cheiftec had me going in circles for about an hour til I figured out what those rails were for, then another 15 minutes trying to figure out which way to put them on...:D

[AMD'er]

Originally posted by Garfield


Nope. Nothing.

Yea that sounds like what happend to my friend when he built his P4. His MOBO and Case came with no instructions from Intel just a little pic on the side panel that he had to follow inorder to connect everything to the MOBO. Yea it helped but the Pic was about 8 1/2 by 5 so it was kinda of hard to read.