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From: "Wayne Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 9:52 PM
Subject: Re: HARDware: Minimum Needed to Run
I hope you noticed that I didn't say your screws were too big.
From the beginning of me using case screws, I did notice the head size is a
borderline situation. They come right to or slightly beyond the circle but
there is plenty of isolated real estate around the screw holes. My other
main safety rules are to count the standoffs more than once and count the
screw holes in the motherboard more than once, even if it is the 100th time
I have mounted that model of motherboard. Sometimes they change a
configuration and do not change the model number. You can have one less
mounting standoff and get by, but if you have a standoff that is not under a
screw hole, Trouble with a Capital T!
My comments are based on how things were when I bought my last motherboard,
a month or so ago. Technology is moving too fast for me to keep up. The
variety in components has exploded to unimaginable levels. I have no idea of
what I would buy today to build a new computer. If they went to short
jumpers for hard drives that are recessed and have no fingernail notch, it
does not surprise me that they went to plastic standoffs for mounting
motherboards. Every time I work on a computer, I replace any short hard
drive jumper with the standard size that has a fingernail notch or slot to
pull it with.
Chuck
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