antec 900 owner please come in

Can someone please help me install the 3.5" tray for the 2.5" memory card reader?



I can't seems to find a way to screw the 3.5" tray in place. There is no screw holes or anything.



The only holes i see are the ones to screw my memory card reader in place.



thanks aloot

The pair of 3.5" drive bays each seeing one 120mm fan on the front of them slide forward. You first have to remove both side covers to take out the thumbscrews that hold each bay inplace and simply slide one forward. You will need an adapter for mounting the 2.5" card reader inplace. Note that front access to the reaader won't be available from outside once in being sealed off by the 120 fan there.

there is three empty 3.5 bays at the top and I am using the third one for the memory card reader. I placed the Memory card reader in the adapter that came with the case but i have no idea how i can hold the adapter into the case.

I first saw that case in circuit city when they were displaying a gaming rig and i saw them put the memory card reader on the top down third 3.5 slot. The top two 3.5 i will be using it for dvd burners.

any body able to hold the adapter in place?

I didn't put mine in, but from looking at the adapter there is two small holes on each side which would make it screw in like a regular 5.25" component, like a DVD drive.

I see the problem now with your original question.. Those aren't 3 1/2" hard drive bays but the typical 5 1/4" bays commonly used for optical drives like cd rom, cd writers, dvd rom, and dvd rw types. That makes more sense since you were off on measurements.

If the card reader is a 3.5" device then you would need a drive bay adapter like the ones used for seeing a hard drive placed in one of the top bays. Those are usually low cost items found at most online vendors like newegg or some other place in the accessories section.

Take a look at what newegg sees there for one to gasp for air on their price thougn. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811993007

I guess newegg is far from the cheapest on everything. http://www.thenerds.net/STARTECHCOM....3536-2&affid=3

Besides the typical two piece tray/face plate combo there are also the two piece metal bracket types like the one seen at http://www.techforless.com/cgi-bin/t...7?mv_pc=nextag

Those are a little more awkward to work with but leave the face plate area empty for installing things behind a cover over then a floppy type drive where nothing is exposed.

I thought the 900 came with a 3.5 drive bay adapter?

sorry pc eye now that yo mention it it is the 5 1/4 bay that i am talking about. and I might just have to buy one of these adapter you posted if i can't get my to work.

Thank you for taking the time to look up these adapters for me pc eye.

MatrixEvo I tried to screw it into place that the holes on the adapter didn't line up with the ones on the case.

It does, but i can't seems to line up the holes on the adapter to the one son the case.

If you can get the stock one to work it looks pretty good

It does and it's a royal pain in the left ankle trying to line up the holes on the preformed plastic molded adapter at times.

I recently found a basic metal tray that will easily slide into a 5 1/4" bay with ease but without the fancy face plate for literally $2 over paying out some $15 retail for that cheap brand seen at newegg and other places. The 900 comes with the opening seen in the pictures that Stranglehold posted there and work for floppy drives and maybe the card reader if that matches up with the drive bay cover seen there.

For getting the plastic one to line up you first have to get one fastener in on one side but not tighrened all the way down to leave some slack. Then you can do the same on the other side back and forth to all 4 are in and then finally tighten those down. The preformed threaded holes on it have no break of the edge where you can easily spot it in the black plastic there.