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[stormdog]

Today's lesson in computer case modification: any fastener is self-tapping if you put enough force behind it. Well, ok; I already knew that. Today was just a reinforcement of that nugget of wisdom. Perhaps today's lesson really is that that my mate will sleep through a howling Dremel a floor below her. This is fortunate, as she would probably have killed me otherwise.

I am moving a motherboard from an HP machine that I brought home into the case that I've had sitting next to my TV in the living room. It's an upgrade from a 773Mhz PIII to a 2.8GHZ PIV. I may actually be able to emulate the N64 and the Playstation One with that. The problem was that, though the board had standard ATX mounting holes, there were four extra ones that the base of the heat sink/fan combo bolts onto that my other case didn't have. So after putting the motherboard onto the case and marking the four holes with a screwdriver tip, I got out the rotary tool. Half an hour later, I had four new holes that I used, along with my newly purchased Big!Lots nut driver set, to brute-force persuade the offsets from the HP motherboard tray that they wanted to live on my board instead. I had them almost perfect. It was close enough that I did get all four screws in. I'm very, very much hoping that the fit isn't so tight that one of them happened to warp the motherboard too far or scratch a circuit tracing. I'm not going to take it back apart to find out, so I guess we'll see on Wednesday once I have time to put the rest of the parts in and power it up. Tomorrow I'm going to be down at posicat's place, so it will have to wait.

Dear one; sorry for littering the freshly cleaned living room floor with computer parts. I'll get it all put away soon; I promise! *smooches*

Good night all!