A1200 transplant

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Has anyone taken a dead 1200 and replaced the motherboard with something like a keyrah, an itx motherboard, and WinUAE?  You could even use a right-angle PCI adapter and get a PCI board in there, like a scsi board or a PCI catweasel or both.  Maybe use a real floppy, or a CF card reader in its place.  Has anyone done this?

brian

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After investigating a few ITX motherboards, I noticed the huge heat sinks.  Gaudier than a rear wing on a rice rocket.

With regard to hardware, I seem to be a senior citizen these days.  I seem to remember there being something (a heat pump?) that attaches to the CPU and puts a heat sink somewhere else.  Maybe there are others with a fan that could be lower-profile but work as well.

brian

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That sounds like a peltier device

It's not a peltier that I was thinking of.  Although a peltier might not be a bad idea.  I used to have one and the warm side heat sink was huge.  I think they're power-hungry too.

brian

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That's interesting.  Although I fail to see how that works better than any other case... at least it says amiga on the outside.

I toyed with the idea of making a case out of a simple piece of plywood (under the motherboard) and a piece of plexi on top to cover it.  Maybe put some mood lighting under the plexi...  I thought about something similar for the 2000, but more complicated to support the zorro and isa cards, and some drives.  

Something like this would be easy for the PC/WinUAE route also.  Then again, I could just get a plexi case and put an ATX motherboard in it and be done with it.  A 1200 with a keyrah would look nice next to a plexi case full of goodies.

brian

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http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=51818

Thanks for the link.  This is exactly what I was trying to describe.  Now I'm thinking an a500 might be a better donor.

brian