How do I assemble my Ampie?

Maheriano · 05-27-2006, 04:30 PM

I figured I'd post in the Newbie section, that way I can ask whatever I want! My friend took it all out of the boxes in the US before he crossed back over the border with it and there's no documentation of how it goes together. I don't even know which ports on the motherboard provide power for what. Is there a diagram for this here somehwere, I searched.

So my Ampie showed up today, I got the M10000 motherboard and the M-1 PSU. Only problem is, how do I put it together?

Hard Drive - I got a little plastic bag of screws and other parts so I used these to mount the hard drive to the metal bottom of the Ampie. I put the screw through the metal, then through the foam bushing, then through the metal rail, then into the hard drive. I left them kind of loose so the bushings were still spongy instead of squished so the hard drive had shock absorption. Then I plugged it into the IDE port on the board, right on the edge. Not the black one in the middle, but the white one. That matter?

RAM - It came with 256 low profile RAM so I went and picked up 512 regular desktop RAM, will this work? It seats in there but not sure about power consumption or compatibility.

PSU - The PSU sits right on top of the hard drive and I couldn't get the ribbon cable for the hard drive up and over it, so I squat the ribbon cable between the top of the hard drive and the bottom of the PSU. Then plugged the PSU into the board and into the hard drive. Are there any other connections I have to plug in for this?

Ampie Faceplate - The end piece that screws on last has a red LED in it and a few other wires coming out of it. Red/black, red/black, white, red, and black. The white, red and black wires look like they plug into the +, MS, - on the PSU but in which order? And where on the motherboard do the 2 red/black wires go? I've also got extras of all these wires, but they're just loose wires, not connected to anything else.

Harness - This is an assortment of wires that all go into one white plug. The wires are orange, green, red, white and 3 black. The red, white and 1 black are thicker than the other 4, are these for sound output to the speakers? Or amp I guess?

Fan - There's a fan mounted in the case, where on the board does this plug in?

USB Adapter - This provides 2 more USB ports to use, where on the board do these plug in?

And some various ribbon cables.

WarDriver · 05-27-2006, 05:54 PM

Search for a user's manual on the maker's website. This will answer most of these questions. I suggest doing this b/c others might call it spoonfeeding.

Just my 2 cents.

Maheriano · 05-27-2006, 06:08 PM

Ya I'd rather have a manual, never thought about going to their actual website. Thanks.
Feel free to still post if you can answer any of the questions though.

Maheriano · 05-28-2006, 07:16 PM

Couldn't find a manual anywhere but I found some pretty detailed pictures in another thread. The others were labelled on the board for the fan and stuff so that's cool. So just plug it into my desktop PSU and CD ROM in order to install Windows XP? I just want to be sure.