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Trying to find a 90s/00s 'standard ATX' I/O plate

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First post, by Blmlozz

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I'm trying to find an I/O plate for my bit BH6 and a Gigabyte 815e b-step motherboard but having difficulty finding one.
a lot of boards in the 90s and early 00's had very standardized I/O; two PS/2, two USB, two serial, a parallel and maybe AC97 audio or RJ45 above the USB ports.
I have this gut feeling that I'm just missing some kind of key-word used to describe what these kind of very 'generic' plates might be called because I cannot for the life of me find any on ebay /amazon /google yet this sort of I/O combination was extensively used so surely someone makes these . any help appreciated. thanks!

Reply 1 of 2, by JidaiGeki

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Not my listing, but this could help for the Gigabyte board:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Gigabyte-12AI1-6SMZ7 … 7AAAOSw131emeAx

It's for a socket 478 board (https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-8S648FX-L-rev-10#ov) but looks like it's got the same layout as earlier Gigabyte 370 boards, with the possible exception of the network connector above the USB ports. Couldn't guarantee it fits though.

These plates can be called IO Shields, covers, plates, backplates depending on the seller. The general eBay section for backplates is:

https://www.ebay.com/b/Computer-Motherboard-B … 0080/bn_1642363

I always found European eBay listings to have more vintage IO shields, but YMMV.

Reply 2 of 2, by Horun

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If I cannot find a backplate - I/O shield on local or Ebay I go look here: http://io-shield.de/en/io-shields
Have bought more than a few and they have always been correct (except one, which the audio holes were off about paper width, filed it to work).
added: yes there are cheaper sources but they had one for a very odd board that no generic would fit.

Hate posting a reply and then have to edit it because it made no sense 😁 First computer was an IBM 3270 workstation with CGA monitor. Stuff: https://archive.org/details/@horun

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