Properly fitting a motherboard
This is probably my most handled motherboard.
It was my first real dual cpu motherboard and was designed for operation in the Manhattan/ Commerce series servers made by AST. I origionally bought it as an upgrade to my ailing pentium 133 server which was on it's way out and when it arrived it was bigger than I thought.
Placing the board on the ground, from the bottom of the board to the top of the cpu riser it was 7 1/2" tall and the riser itself was full length! My old server case was not wide enough nor was it ATX and I lived with the riser sticking out of the side of the case and a very badly cut out hole for the ports for a month or so until I upgraded to a proliant 1600. The board then just began to collect dust and every once and a while I pulled a component off for another system (note a missing fan, VRM and ram) and the case was thrown out since it was an very bad shape and was impossible to use again after all that work.
Now I want to start from scratch and give it a new and permanant home.
The first hurdle is the size once again. Here is the back of the AST case:
Looking at most full-height tower ATX and EATX cases I find that the riser card is the problem. It's so tall and in some cases the motherboard itself is so big that it prevents the PSU from being installed (I had to dent my PSU in the AT case just to get the board to fit). This usually means one thing: Proprietary.
My metalworking tools are rather limited. Only half a drill bit set, a drill, some tin snips (no aviation ships) and a hacksaw. No dremel, no grinder no welder.
What should I do?
It was my first real dual cpu motherboard and was designed for operation in the Manhattan/ Commerce series servers made by AST. I origionally bought it as an upgrade to my ailing pentium 133 server which was on it's way out and when it arrived it was bigger than I thought.
Placing the board on the ground, from the bottom of the board to the top of the cpu riser it was 7 1/2" tall and the riser itself was full length! My old server case was not wide enough nor was it ATX and I lived with the riser sticking out of the side of the case and a very badly cut out hole for the ports for a month or so until I upgraded to a proliant 1600. The board then just began to collect dust and every once and a while I pulled a component off for another system (note a missing fan, VRM and ram) and the case was thrown out since it was an very bad shape and was impossible to use again after all that work.
Now I want to start from scratch and give it a new and permanant home.
The first hurdle is the size once again. Here is the back of the AST case:
Looking at most full-height tower ATX and EATX cases I find that the riser card is the problem. It's so tall and in some cases the motherboard itself is so big that it prevents the PSU from being installed (I had to dent my PSU in the AT case just to get the board to fit). This usually means one thing: Proprietary.
My metalworking tools are rather limited. Only half a drill bit set, a drill, some tin snips (no aviation ships) and a hacksaw. No dremel, no grinder no welder.
What should I do?
<----Computer says I need more beer.
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