AT in an HP Case

[gjimene2]

I got bored one day and decided to put in an AT motherboard in a HP Case.

Here are the results.




It actually does have enough room to have air circulation around the heatsink, plus I'm also adding a 120mm fan were the duct was at on the rear.


Here is the back of the computer, AT PSU, and the power button is on the back, the reset is in the front. Also you can tell I had to dremel for the video card.


Here you can see were I had to dremel out for the video card. If I cut a hole in between the vga and the rca out, you will get the s-video. I also had to make a custom bracket for the PPT.



Here you can see the hole I made for the keyboard and how I had to make some home made washers for the Com Port.

The front of the case. Notice I will have to take out the Celeron inside decal off it.

[gjimene2]

Under neath the video card.


On top of the video card showing the cut case.


And the case on it's side.


It runs a 500mhz AMD K6-2, with 512 of PC133, 7gb hard drive, 32mb nvidia video card, and a nice d-link 530 ethernet card. I can load up linux in this nicely. But I'll think if I don't sell it, I can load up 2000 advanced server and play with it.

What do you guys think of this quick mod?

[fishybawb]

I'm all for recycling, so nice job I've got a couple of cases lying around that I've been meaning to do something similar with (for about 2 years now ), if only I had the time.

[gjimene2]

Thank you, this was when I didn't have much work, so I just went on ahead and decided that I wanted to use a better looking case since the other one is real fugly.

[the xenon]

haha but why?

[leprechaun_40]

I've got a couple AT style cases here, and I turned one into an ATX, LOL. The other 2, lesse, ones a seti cruncher and the other I'm going to make into a Linux box once I get a few more parts together.

Good job though, it's hard to use a box that's not meant for one form factor to use it anyhow. Those old K6-2's rock, one of my Seti crunchers is a salvaged K6-2 380 out of an old compaq ( just the proc, ram and HDD, the rest went bye bye )

[dell8200]

that is cool can you do that to a dell case, i am guessing it is not reccomanded for the average user

[GrefMofovich]

I once installed an ATX board in an AT case back when I didn't know there WAS AT and ATX. It wouldn't fit the proper way, but I wanted to compute with the new board. Ended up mounting it on the reverse side of the mobo panel, so the classic athlon on it was sticking all out and sweet looking.

Ok not really a mod, but it was sweet looking I tell you!