DVD Drive doesn’t fit in Antec P180

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Can’t get your DVD Drive to fit into the 5.25″ drive bay on the Antec P180 using the provided drive rails? Don’t worry neither could I for about an hour How embarrasing! I was so frustrated by this I actually broke out into a sweat

Like any good nerd, I NEVER read the instructions to anything … particularly computer cases! So seeing that the 3.25″ bay had the clips on the drive rails facing the insided of the case I installed the drive rails the same way on my girlfriends brothers DVD Drive.

HINT: Don’t do this! The drive rails for your DVD Drive should be screwed on so that the clips are at the front of your Antec P180 case and the clips should also line up with the front of the DVD face. Here are some pictures to demonstrate what I mean:

Antec P180 DVD Drive Rails Install

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4 Responses to “DVD Drive doesn’t fit in Antec P180”

Anonymous on February 16th, 2008 at 11:14 am

Thanks!
Anonymous on March 28th, 2008 at 3:49 pm

Gah!! They face foward. lol

I feel so stupid.
OgeGOon on April 19th, 2008 at 8:36 am

You save me men !!!

That was a great idea to post this hint.

Thank you (and google) very much!
vette17 on September 12th, 2008 at 8:04 pm

this is exactly what i was looking for. antec had a decent manual until i got to installing in the 5 1/4″ drive bays. I was left clueless at what it was trying to get at. i guess now after seeing this image i could sorta tell what they were saying
thanks