Mounting an amiga in a ATX Tower?

[carvedeye]

hi i have everything i need to mount my 1200 in an atx tower.so found a tower that would fit the 1200 in but nothing to secure the it to the tower any ideas ?

thanks

[rkauer]

I f you CAREFULLY drill the holes for the Amiga ports in the backplate (you'll need to build a new one, anyway), no need to worry about any more grips.

 Maybe only a hole for a screw on 1200's bottommost-left border.

 Dont forget to put the original insulation layer behind the board.

[carvedeye]

thanks gonna give that a try

[rkauer]

The only modification you'll need to do in your PSU is CUT out the shield wire of the Amiga conector (no need the wire, 'cause in a tower you'll have all shield you need).

 

[carvedeye]

the psu isnt the prioblem as i have an at power cable 1200
its actually put the 1200 in place inside the tower and secureing it in so it doesnt move or break?

[motorollin]

I think a single screw won't give you the stability you need. And if the back of the A1200 motherboard grounds against the case then you're buggered. I would properly mount motherboard standoffs in the case in the correct position so you can fix the motherboard properly. Also make sure you remove the existing standoffs to stop them touching the A1200 board.

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moto

[DrDekker]

@ carvedeye

I'm still contemplating this myself but struggling to find a decent looking yet not-too-expensive tower that is tall enough.

However, most ATX towers are in fact deep enough to mount the Amiga horizontally.  When I finally get around to it, my solution will be to install the Amiga mobo complete with the lower half of the casing (which will provide the insulation).  All the ports will be extended to make them available at either the PCI backplates or the area normally occupied by the ATX mobo's PS2/USB/Serial/Parallel/LAN ports.

[AmiGeezer]

I did a conversion years back now, into a 'full tower'.

I bought a 90-degree PCMCIA adapter, removed the rear of the tower, had a new one plasma-cut with a long slot so you could see all the 1200s connectors vertically - made my own PSU-1200 lead (plans on Aminet) - made my own RGB-VGA adapter (again, thanks Aminet), rotated the tower's PSU by 90-degrees (so it was flush against the top rather than positioned vertically).

Everything worked fine first time. I had to add some insulation behind my Blizzard card but other than that (which was the bottom from a plastic lunch box) I just screwed it on using brackets that held the corners of the motherboard.

Also fitted an EZ-Key interface, added an A4000 keyboard, Squirel SCSI with a reno CDROM (this was later dropped and I put a real CDROM in the tower with an unbuffered IDE Interface) etc etc.

It was nice. I even relocated the original 1200s lights to one of the faceplates of the tower with a large Amiga sticker over the front so they shone through.

Shame I sold it all a couple of years ago due to lack of space!

Matt

[Bamiga2002]

Have a look at this:

http://tinyurl.com/ynrxva

[carvedeye]

so if i drill another hole for the top right corner mount it this way with the standoffs underneath the board and the insulation layer under the board also and secure the back of the board with a stick of wood (cut to the correct size)would that be ok?