From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Jul 21 16: 1:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from ptldpop2.ptld.uswest.net (ptldpop2.ptld.uswest.net [198.36.160.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C93BC1559C for ; Wed, 21 Jul 1999 16:01:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from summoner@uswest.net) Received: (qmail 18780 invoked by alias); 21 Jul 1999 22:59:22 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG@fixme Received: (qmail 18752 invoked by uid 0); 21 Jul 1999 22:59:22 -0000 Received: from edsl209.ptld.uswest.net (HELO uswest.net) (209.180.175.209) by ptldpop2.ptld.uswest.net with SMTP; 21 Jul 1999 22:59:22 -0000 Message-ID: <379650CD.586244EB@uswest.net> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 15:59:25 -0700 From: Summoner X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jgrosch@MooseRiver.com Cc: David Wolfskill , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: First time for my own PC hardware References: <199907211544.IAA55522@pau-amma.whistle.com> <19990721093602.A26255@ontario.mooseriver.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Josef Grosch wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 08:44:34AM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote: >> So I guess I get to take the chassis back, go to the place where I got >> the motherboard, get a chassis that fits, and get an extra jumper & >> some screws.... > > Sounds like you got a bad chassis. It seems like most of the low end cases > are coming out of China these days. The quality control on these units > seem to really variable. I recently got one that had all the holes that > hold the motherboard mounting post were offset by a good inch and a half. I > guess there are name brands among cases, I just haven't looked into it. I'm partial to Inwin cases, smoothed edges, no drive rails, solid construction, and almost any non-rackmount form factor you can think of. They have this great feature: the mainboard tray and I/O back panel are a single piece that slides out of the case entirely. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message