UPDATE with CLUES!

Well my remembering was a little off regarding the case design. I actually found an old video recording on a VHS-C tape (of course filmed at night; after all, in 2006 I was a vampire) and it proves the "X" window was actually an "X" window. So it was even more awesome than I thought it was. Good thing it was all lit up with LED and CCFL goodness.

And, the silver panel on the front was actually rectangular. Obviously my brain memory has got some bad sectors or data corruption.

Yes, it was on the floor. 12th grade nezwick was too poor for a desk.

Maybe we'll get to the bottom of this eventually.

If you ordered the black case from Newegg, do you still have the order confirmation email?
I noticed Newegg usually keep the product page even the product was discontinued. There is a higher chance to find the case if you have the item number from the email.

Thank you for your response. I had thought about that, but unfortunately the confirmation email is a dead end. I haven't had access to that email address or Newegg account in many years. The Newegg account is inaccessible because it's associated with that old email address, so the "forgot your password" link goes nowhere.

Back then, my email address (actually, I probably used my mom's email address) was through our ISP and we used POP via a mail client like Outlook Express, so the messages weren't accessible via a web interface anyway.

It was xxxxx@alltel.net, then they migrated us to xxxxx@windstream.net, and then we ditched that ISP probably around 2008 when we moved to cable.

Just wanted to offer a small update to this thread, which I thought I had already done, but clearly had not.

I actually CALLED Newegg customer service to attempt to get access to my order history. Unfortunately, they were unable to merge my old account with my current one. Understandably, though no less frustratingly, they couldn't actually provide me access to the old account because it was in my mom's name (now deceased). We did manage to find a decent enough workaround however - the agent verbally read me the make and models of all the PC cases that I ordered between 2001-2005 on that account.

BUT, that was also a dead end, because none of the cases I had purchased matched the subject of this thread. Most of those cases were builds that I had done for my customers.

I'm still checking eBay/marketplace/CL nearly every day to see if one of these pops up. Sadly, I have no more photos or video stills to help with identification.

nezwick wrote on 2023-09-29, 16:36:

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BUT, that was also a dead end, because none of the cases I had purchased matched the subject of this thread. Most of those cases were builds that I had done for my customers.

I'm still checking eBay/marketplace/CL nearly every day to see if one of these pops up. Sadly, I have no more photos or video stills to help with identification.

Does it mean you purchased the case from local store? You mentioned you filed an insurance claim, maybe you kept the receipt of the case somewhere?

Thermaltake had some X-shaped windows e.g. in the Tsunami and Soprano case. Although yours looks different. Or the Xaser which has a similar X on the front

I know what you're saying about those Thermaltake cases. Mine definitely was a budget/no-name case. I actually have three Thermaltake Xaser-III in my collection right now, and they are worlds apart in terms of quality (and size too). Had a Xaser-II recently also but I sold it to help fund my other retro systems.

As far as that insurance claim goes, I'm certain that would be a dead end also. Fairly confident it was just written up as a "custom built PC" or something and that was all. Although even after that power surge incident happened, and the Socket A MB/CPU got fried, I still re-used the case for my next Athlon64 build.

Just to keep this thread somewhat interesting, here are the two Xaser-III systems I have. They are pretty much fully built out, except for finding better graphics cards for them.

One is socket A, AthlonXP 3000+, ASUS nForce2 motherboard, 1 GB DDR400 in dual channel; 160GB SATA HDD; GeForce MX440 64MB
The other is Socket 754, Athlon64 3000+, ECS motherboard, 2 GB DDR400 in dual channel; 500GB SATA HDD; Sound Blaster Live; Radeon 9200 128MB