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theburner · 06-08-2004, 05:47 AM

I have taken an old HP 7995 out of the case and "transplanted" the guts into a Thermaltake Case. Some of the problems I ran into:
1) The Mobo's are usually proprietary and manufactured ONLY for the one customer. Good luck finding pin out documentation.
2) The onboard USB and Firewire connections were proprietary in my case also. I was unable to use two of the onboard USB connections because HP used custom cables to connect. It wasn't the same pinout as Thermaltake used.
3) Not many (if any?) of the MFG's use full size or even mid size ATX formats. I had 7 PCI slots on my case, but my MOBO only had four. I had three wasted slots.

My recommendation is to scrap the mobo and buy a new one if you can. Just pry off the heatsink, remove the CPU and install it on the new MOBO.

I don't wear a wrist strap or anti-static gloves, and have never fried any hardware. The company I work for has a huge tech center and we ship over 20 Unix Servers a month. Our techs don't wear anti-static equipment (floor is raised and grounded though, but most everyone wears rubber soled shoes which negates this) and we have NEVER fried any memory, disk, mobo's or anything. Just make sure to periodically ground yourself on the metal chassis of your system.

06-08-2004, 05:47 AM	#10 (permalink)
theburner Canadian Beer Ambassador Location: Cumming, GA	I have taken an old HP 7995 out of the case and "transplanted" the guts into a Thermaltake Case. Some of the problems I ran into: 1) The Mobo's are usually proprietary and manufactured ONLY for the one customer. Good luck finding pin out documentation. 2) The onboard USB and Firewire connections were proprietary in my case also. I was unable to use two of the onboard USB connections because HP used custom cables to connect. It wasn't the same pinout as Thermaltake used. 3) Not many (if any?) of the MFG's use full size or even mid size ATX formats. I had 7 PCI slots on my case, but my MOBO only had four. I had three wasted slots. My recommendation is to scrap the mobo and buy a new one if you can. Just pry off the heatsink, remove the CPU and install it on the new MOBO. I don't wear a wrist strap or anti-static gloves, and have never fried any hardware. The company I work for has a huge tech center and we ship over 20 Unix Servers a month. Our techs don't wear anti-static equipment (floor is raised and grounded though, but most everyone wears rubber soled shoes which negates this) and we have NEVER fried any memory, disk, mobo's or anything. Just make sure to periodically ground yourself on the metal chassis of your system. __________________ Take Off Eh!