Propane Posted January 11, 2004 Posted January 11, 2004 Well... yesterday my friend had me over to move his dell into a new antec case. Well... I went hoping that Dell would have decided to make an industry standard mobo. instead of some weird format... Well, I hopped wrong. There are a few things I would like to point out to anyone trying to undertake something like this. TOOLS NEEDED --------------------- 1. Dremal 2. Knife 3. Hex screwdriver 4. Phillips Screwdriver 5. Drill Press 6. 7/64" drill bit 7. Plyers (sp) 8. Some guts and a drink THINGS TO WATCH OUT FOR ------------------------------------ 1. Maxtor HD that comes w/ the computer is not quite 3.5 inches (more like 3.35) which makes it near impossible to fit into the drive bay 2. Dell Mobo has 4 screws in it... then there is a plate under the mobo, the plate is attached to plastic things holding down the HSF, to get the mobo off the plate you have to cut the plastic part in half and then dremal around the plate then take plyers (sp) and rip off the remaining metal part... 3. Dell mobo is not ATX, microATX, or anything with the letters A, T or X in it... you have to drop the mobo in and line it up using the PCI slots... then make marks and drill a hole there... you must use a drill press, hand drills dont cut it (I tried a hand drill and burnt myself... kept the drill running for like 1.5 minutes and nothing happened and I touched the bit after i gave up... burnt myself really bad). At this point you need to thread the hole you just made . Then you need to screw in the mobo... It will be hanging by 1 screw at the bottom left corner and the PCI/AGP cards. Kinda scarry 4. Dell mobo dosent have traditional power sw/restart sw/speaker/power led/HDD led jumpers so you have to dremal out the power switch and use that instead of the one the case came with... at least you get the extra audio/usb ports Thats about it... if you decide to do this I hope this helps... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Posted January 11, 2004 Posted January 11, 2004 That must have taken forever. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Propane Posted January 11, 2004 Posted January 11, 2004 6 hours or so Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Posted January 11, 2004 Posted January 11, 2004 That sucks. I set up a folding computer in 30 minutes Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuclear Posted January 11, 2004 Posted January 11, 2004 That's my main gripe with Dell's...everything is propierty. The PSU will only work with Dell boards, their meant for only dell cases, etc... Dell is the anti-modding company Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kobalt Posted January 14, 2004 Posted January 14, 2004 (edited) And DELL will probably change or die in a near future as more peoples are aware of this so very stupid way to build a PC <_< Correction :Forget change, they should die bunch of #%$}&%* Edited January 14, 2004 by kobalt Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special_K Posted January 14, 2004 Posted January 14, 2004 actually dells challange modders, its harder to do... more of a challange Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eva_Unit_0 Posted January 14, 2004 Posted January 14, 2004 Wow Kevin, you're one heck of a friend. I would have looked at it for 5 minutes and said screw it. I hate all of that proprietry stuff...it's almost as though Dell (and the other big manufacturers) are turning into Apple, so to speak. All proprietry, and nothing that end users can (easily) do with them. But you showed them wrong! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LobbDogg Posted January 14, 2004 Posted January 14, 2004 Well if thats how they are built then dude, I'm going to buy a dell. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bishop245 Posted January 14, 2004 Posted January 14, 2004 thats a dedicated modder there Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
asus Posted January 14, 2004 Posted January 14, 2004 well.. my dell was easy to take apart.. 1 screw in the side held the mobo in place.. and some other little clip thing.. and the hsf is one of the easyest things in the world to work..you just connect both ends and pull it back.. ?? but its easy anyway.. lets just hope it starts when i need to make it my dedicated server/folding machin!! but they way your explaining it.. sounds like ... they did not want people screwing with it i would have got out the old hack saw and vice grips Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanksta Posted January 15, 2004 Posted January 15, 2004 dell sux everything is like not standard Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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