7 Nov
2005
7 Nov
'05
12:45 p.m.
Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
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?
Antonio
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Antonio carlini
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