XT Case with Modern Motherboard

[Adrian Graham]

On 7/11/05 20:36, "Sridhar Ayengar" <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The PS is fried in this machine also, so I was planning on mounting the
> guts from a newish power supply inside the housing for the original.
> The PS I'm going to be using is significantly smaller than the original.

This idea's appealing to me more and more, purely because I know I can do it
:)
 
> So would you suggest installing metal standoffs with nuts through new
> oversized punched holes, or would you suggest drilling/tapping holes and
> installing the standoffs directly?  Or something else?

It depends on the available height from the base of the case as to whether a
standard backplate from an ATX case could be used instead...if I wasn't
using my PC for its sole purpose of watching TV right now I'd strip it down
and check. Failing that, direct standoffs would do.

Cheers

A