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Can I put 3000 guts in 4000 tower?
« on: June 02, 2004, 07:00:52 AM »
Well Im still waiting for my 3000 to show up and I was wondering can I use a 4000 tower and jsut put the 3000 in it?
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Re: Can I put 3000 guts in 4000 tower?
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2004, 10:08:26 AM »
Hi

I don't think so, the A4000T has the Zorro-slots placed direct on the mother-board, the A3000 desktop has a riser-card for the Zorro-slots, so the orientation of the Zorro-cards will be wrong.
I also think that the connectors for the parallel, serial, keyboard, etc. are different placed.

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