Ray Davison wrote:

>The first box I scratch build was a 486. 
>
It was much easier working on the [almost standardized!] S100 Bus 
computers in the late 70s/early 80s!

> Although I may be able to 
>count the 286s I stuck 386 MBs in.  I just threw together whatever 
>parts I got a deal on.  There were always random discussions regarding 
>the best memory.  I listened and then used the cheapest thing I could 
>find.  My experience was that if it plugged in properly it worked.
>
>Then a year or so ago I took a MB back to Fry's that I couldn't get to 
>work.  For those who might not know Fry's, they are fairly serious 
>about selling computer parts.  They have fifteen to twenty MBs on 
>display any any time, and at least that many cases, and probably 
>anything else you care to put with it.
>
>The woman who was the head customer service tech at the time looked at 
>the board assy and said "that's OEM memory, that won't work."  To 
>which I said "huh, why did you sell it to me?"
>
>I just went back to Fry's with an MSI K8N AMD 64 that would not start 
>POST.  The woman who is currently head customer service tech looked at 
>the assy and said "that's Kingston memory, that won't work."  To which 
>I said "huh, why did you sell it to me?"  She also said my video card 
>only had 32M memory and that is not enough to even POST on an MSI 
>although it worked on the ECS 755 AMD 64.
>
>A tech at Fry's said they had some HP computers.  They tried every 
>kind of memory they had and none of it would work.
>
>And then there are cases.  I have two late model cases that came with 
>P4/late AMD type power supplies with the extra four pin connector. 
>Both cases provide mounting for late model MBs.  Now just try to put a 
>CD drive in the front.  It MIGHT not hit the MB, a DVD burner will 
>most likely not fit, a plug-in HDD rack? dream on.
>
>It has made me rethink the issue of buying parts from anybody I can't 
>physically take them back to.
>
>Ray
>  
>

Hi Ray,

Well at least you had contact with some techicians who had a bit of 'nouse'!
In the past I ran into the same problem of motherboards overlapping  
[with consequent frequent skinning of knuckles] the drive bay area, and 
decided there and then to get some cheap cases which had much larger 
fore & aft dimensions, so it was easy to fit my removable disk drawers. 
the [Chinese!] cases I bought were Hyena models, forget the actual 
manufacturer, and the only problem is that they only have three 
externally accessible 5.25" drive-bays - I would have preferred four, 
CD-ROM+2HDd+Tape, in addition to the two external 3.5" bays. I have a 
SCSI drive on the bottom of the 3.5" enclosure - not externally accessible.

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Regards,
Mike

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