Can an AT do ATX?

[jimmyj0668]

I recently came into an AT case and WIN 95 system I built for my brother almost 6 years ago. I frankly don't remember much about the unit though I built it. It has an Intergraph video card (PCI), a huge creative sound card and 3com modem that are in the old pre-PCI slots. I have no idea what the name of the mobo is but it has a VX Two north and south bridge and a socket 7 intel CPU Pentium II (?) 233. There,s a WD hard drive Caviar 36400. My brother said it works and can I upgrade it? I told him to forget it as far as upgrading and I couldn't even check it out since he didn't give me th keyboard and mouse and I had nothing that fit those old keyboard connectors and no serial mouse. Any way, what I wonder is can this old AT case be salvaged to ATX? Or should it go to landfill?

 

[Fanny]

landfill asap unless you wanna throw a NIC in it and run it as a small file storage comp

 

[DaveSimmons]

Put it on FS/T forum for $1 plus shipping. Someone looking to play old DOS and Win95 games might want it.

Every part is useless to put into a modern computer.

 

[imported_Computer MAn]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
Put it on FS/T forum for $1 plus shipping. Someone looking to play old DOS and Win95 games might want it.

Every part is useless to put into a modern computer.

 

[Adam7]

Originally posted by: Fanny
landfill asap unless you wanna throw a NIC in it and run it as a small file storage comp

would make a good file server

 

[Fanny]

Thats exactly what Ive been doing with my old pentium mmx, it works great!

 

[Tom]

i would use mine as a file server, but it's only got a 20mb hard drive !

 

[gryfon]

if it doesn't have an atx connector onboard (i've seen a motherboard with both at & atx power connector) by doing some modifications, i think an atx ps would work correctly, however it might not worth the trouble, alo the atx function would not work (i.e soft power,wol).

 

[VirtualLarry]

Well, that PC is junk, surprised to see one of those WD AC36400 drives still among the living, they often had problems. About the only thing possibly worth-while saving might be the physical case itself. If you want to put an AT-style board in there, that has both AT and ATX connectors (there were a few Socket7 boards made like that, DFI/FIC made some), you could mount an ATX PSU, and then just wire the "turbo" or better "sleep" switch to the ATX power-on header on the mobo. (Or wire the reset switch to power-on, and wire turbo to reset, you'll have to hit the turbo button twice, but big deal.)