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I/O Back Plate shields AT and ATX cases

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First post, by allesclar

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Morning all,

Forgive me but I never really had any problems with the ATX form rigs I have, however might be inheriting a Super Socket 7 mobo.

How do you lot do your back plates to a more conventional case rather than a baby AT one?

All the photos I seem to be able to find are for either ATX form SS7 motherboards or the SS7 motherboards are only using the original motherboard…

Wanting to keep it all snug at the back and I am struggling to find any generic AT IO shield backplates.

Thanks

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Reply 1 of 9, by Shadzilla

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ATX I/O shields for AT boards do exist, I picked up a new one from eBay last year for my SS7 build (item number 154299330683 on eBay UK, still available although a bit pricey). They're just a plain shield with the hole for the keyboard punched out, the neatest solution you're going to find IMO.

Alternatively you could probably 3D print something that would do the job.

Reply 2 of 9, by konc

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...or you can buy cheap blanks and cut the hole for the keyboard, although it's not as easy as it sounds. This is what I did as I couldn't justify the asking price for the ready ones.

Reply 4 of 9, by allesclar

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Cheers everyone.

Wow that is a lot of money for a back plate. Will have to consider my options. May just stick with my PII slot one rig…..

MSI MS6156/Pentium III 450Mhz/256MB SDR DRAM/GeForce Ti 4200/Sound Blaster PCI 128
Asrock K7S41GX/AMD Athlon XP 2400/512MB DDR DRAM/GeForce 6800/Sound Blaster Live 5.1
Asus P5K/Pentium E6600 2.40GHz/4GB DDR 2 DRAM/GeForce 8800GT/Sound Blaster Audigy 2

Reply 5 of 9, by wierd_w

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The 3D printed ones work just fine. Just sayin'.

Reply 7 of 9, by PTherapist

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I went the super-duper cheapskate method instead for my Super Socket 7 build in an ATX case -

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No expense or much time taken to solve that problem, which is clearly evident by the super amazing job I did of the cut-out for the keyboard socket. 🤣

In all seriousness, probably best don't do this. But it does work so....

Reply 8 of 9, by liqmat

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I had a stack of NOS vintage AT backplates from the PPro haul. Most of them were given out to Vogons members years back. For reference, these are what originals look like which have the grounding tabs.

Reply 9 of 9, by pvlst

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liqmat wrote on 2024-03-05, 16:05:

I had a stack of NOS vintage AT backplates from the PPro haul. Most of them were given out to Vogons members years back. For reference, these are what originals look like which have the grounding tabs.

These are very nice.

I got a few of these some years back, they're basically just blanks with a punched hole of keyboard's DIN connector size.

Another, cheap and a bit ugly option is buying this I/O shield sized 'dust filter' with sticky edges, cutting the desired hole(s) in it and sticking it to the ATX case.

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