There are some other differenced between an AT and ATX board. The AT boards are an older design and used the older, large diameter keyboard socket (5 or 8 pins). They also used COM1 for the mouse. The ATX motherboards on the other hand use the modern 6 pin mini-din connectors for the mouse and keyboard. -rick -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Randy Kramer Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 4:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Hans N. Subject: Re: [newbie] OT - Hardware Dimensions Franki wrote: > If you have an AT board and case, the power supply has a seperate on/off > switch that cuts the power from the motherboard directly... (an AT board has > a power plug to the board that is made up of two seperate plugs.) Just a few points: 1. Just to make it clear, an AT motherboard must go into an AT case, an ATX motherboard must go into an ATX case. 2. Unless you find a case that can handle either. I've seen them advertised, never touched one. The metalwork has to be slightly different between AT and ATX (for the on board connectors, at least -- maybe there are some knockouts for either style?), the power supply plug to the motherboard must be different (maybe they would have both styles?), and ? 3. I'd double check a Compaq -- last time I tried to put a standard motherboard in a Compaq case, it didn't work -- it wasn't really a standard AT case (which means the motherboard wasn't standard AT either). That was probably 5 to 8 years ago, but ... Randy Kramer
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