7 Nov
2005
7 Nov
'05
1:04 p.m.
a.carlini at ntlworld.com wrote:
Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Probably none of the above.
*This* particular XT is probably beyond repair. There are scorch marks
galore and the motherboard is cracked from the cardslots forward.
Ragged remains of traces are sticking out. Sadly, it looks like it was
quite abused in its day.
Peace... Sridhar
I have this dead XT here, and I wanted to replace
its motherboard
with a newish ATX beastie. Anyone know where I might be able to find
some pointers?
You'll have to swap the PSU and you'll have to find a mobo that
can be mounted in the box given the alignment of the mounting
holes etc. and you'll need to find a way of getting the mobo
connectors to the outside world.
Without checking in detail, I think you'll have to virtually
destroy the XT case to make the mobo and PSU fit.
Are XTs far enough along the modern development curve that
they cannot be fixed? I thought that the trend towards
no-schematics-all-in-a-chipset machines was somewhere in
the 386/486 era.
Or are XTs still so common that you have no hope of trading
the dead one for a modern case?