...which is a Japanese OEM MicroATX system that included a Japanese PS/2 keyboard, PS/2 mouse, all documentation, driver CD, Japanese Windows 98SE OEM version (+ key and boot floppy), Windows companion CD, and two of the original boxes. Some more pictures:
What's actually in the case is a Asus Cusi-M Micro ATX board with integrated sound (CMI 8738SX) and network card (including boot ROM), with 3 PCI slots, one AMR slot, a Pentium 3 1 GHz processor, 128 Mb RAM, integrated AGP video, a Samsung 52 speed CD drive, floppy drive, and dead hard disk. The case itself is quite nice.
Originally I had planned to use this system's mainboard to replace My Gateway GP-6's mainboard, but I would also have had to swap the power supply, and the one in this case is a special format. So instead it becomes a separate project.
My first act was to take out the mounting frames for the CD-drive and floppy/hard disk drives. The case insides are quite tight and stuff just fits. Here's the floppy/hard disk mounting frame, with the very dead 40 Gb Samsung Spinpoint hard disk in front of it:
The CD drive works, and so does the floppy disk drive. The original 128 Mb of RAM was augmented with a 64 Mb module from the Gateway GP-6 (since that system's mainboard is toast), and then later on I swapped the 128 Mb with a 256 Mb module that was in my Pentium II system (and only got half-recognized in the PII). In this system that 256 Mb module is fully seen, so now I have two systems with 320 Mb of RAM each.
Then I rerouted the IDE cables so I could later add a CF adapter to the end of the secondary IDE channel cable:
But wait! A P3 system should be powerful enough for DVD playback, right? I still had a untested Toshiba Samsung DVD drive, which hard-locked my Pentium II system when it was installed in that system:
Turns out it works fine in the Pentium 3 system. It's also a bit shorter than the original CD drive, so it will fit better. And the black front panel will fit in nicely with the black part of the front bezel:
