XT Case with Modern Motherboard

[a.carlini at ntlworld.com]

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
arcarlini at iee.org