Nice work there... 😀

I'm amazed someone hasn't begun producing blank ATX I/O plates. They would be useful not just for boards where the original is missing, but also all those AT/ATX Socket 7 boards that would be so much happier in a nice ATX case.

Hmmmm... Phil mentioned blanks in his 386 or 486 retro build on youtube.
He stated that you can buy blanks. Though I can not find anything on eBay.
I think that blanks are to be found in local shops or something like that.

Nicely done. I don't work with metal, so i'd probably just cut out a piece of silver duct tape and cut the holes out with an exacto knife. 🤣.

3D printing would be useful there, printing that would be fast and cheap because such shield is thin and flat, and there are big holes so you don't have to use too much material 😉

adalbert wrote:

3D printing would be useful there, printing that would be fast and cheap because such shield is thin and flat, and there are big holes so you don't have to use too much material 😉

I was just thinking the same thing. Would a cheap plastic IO shield cause any problems with grounding?

nice work!

but call me jaded, but wouldn't it be cheaper to get one on ebay? That one you made looks VERY generic and probably cheap.

yea $5 shipped: http://www.ebay.com/itm/162042305656

gdjacobs wrote:

I'm amazed someone hasn't begun producing blank ATX I/O plates. They would be useful not just for boards where the original is missing, but also all those AT/ATX Socket 7 boards that would be so much happier in a nice ATX case.

They do exist, and they're available on Ebay and not cheap.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/360831590210?_trksid= … K%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
http://www.ebay.com/itm/301717056278?_trksid= … K%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

I've considered attempting to create my own shield before now but have somehow not needed to yet.

The problem with the AT I/O Shields you can get is that they lack the punch-outs for serial and such. There used to be some in the 1990s, and I have one, where there were holes for Serial, Parallel and other stuff, the problem being that the ones I have seen all screw into the case they came with and won't fit on normal cases. Part of me thinks it wouldn't be too hard to just cut the shapes out of a sheet and using smaller plates of metal, bolt it into the case neatly. Sheet metal tends to cost more than I would like though.

brostenen wrote:

Hmmmm... Phil mentioned blanks in his 386 or 486 retro build on youtube.
He stated that you can buy blanks. Though I can not find anything on eBay.
I think that blanks are to be found in local shops or something like that.

Seen those blanks too, however, they're made in very thin sheet metal, that's gonna be hard to work with. You'd have to punch the holes, no way you could do a neat looking job of that using the kind of tools you got at home.

luckybob wrote:

nice work!

but call me jaded, but wouldn't it be cheaper to get one on ebay? That one you made looks VERY generic and probably cheap.

yea $5 shipped: http://www.ebay.com/itm/162042305656

Lol, had no idea there were such a thing as a generic I/O plate, thought there were no "standard" port configurations. Never occurred to me to check ebay, thought it would be completely hopeless to find something fitting...

Oh well, too late now. Might pick up one at some point though 😀

Yeah, for a period of time most of ATX motherboards used the same port layout so I/O shields were interchangeable.

There are cheaper ones:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Supermicro-MCP-260-00 … %3D301717056278

Shipping to my country is 30+ bucks, though...🤣

tayyare wrote:

There are cheaper ones:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Supermicro-MCP-260-00 … %3D301717056278

Shipping to my country is 30+ bucks, though...🤣

I love those... $30 to ship a bloody 10g object. You could send this as a normal airmail letter and pay $3 or less.

Half-Saint wrote:

tayyare wrote:

There are cheaper ones:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Supermicro-MCP-260-00 … %3D301717056278

Shipping to my country is 30+ bucks, though...🤣

I love those... $30 to ship a bloody 10g object. You could send this as a normal airmail letter and pay $3 or less.

I'd guess it's an ugly tactic to get a good ranking when potential customers sort search results on price. List something at $5, add $30 shipping, send it as an airmail letter at $3, end up with $32 in your pocket.

Doesnt work that way for me. I include s&h by default.

I've seen this bullshit tactic all to often, the other trick is akin to domain squatting. A seller does not have something in stock, but expects to at some point so they list the item anyway with either a price or a shipping cost nobody will pay, say, a bag of drive screws for $9999.99 shipping. So far as I am aware, the latter at least is against eBay's policies and can be reported. The first measure is just a scumbag's way of trading and you can do nothing about it. If they're so worried about prices, they can set a reserve I am sure.

I harassed one of these people once, they got rather mad. It was fun.