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For years I was a system builder.
Not professionally, although I know I did a pretty decent job of it, for myself and the fam.
I probably built something like ten or twelve machines over the years, maybe thirteen.
Got out of it around Windows 7 and have moved a couple of times since then and now I've lost all the little glass jars I used to keep all my computer screws and widgets in. Oh, they might still be somewhere, like in "the 908723498763549874598745th box I finally look at in the garage."
When I am eighty-four years old I'll find them, right? :lol:
I bought a server case many years ago with the intent of putting a new mobo in it and I'm stymied by the standoffs having some weird thread size or pitch that doesn't match the screws from any motherboard I know of and it's the first time I've ever encountered that.
I'm hoping someone just has a couple of extra bags or jars of miscellaneous motherboard standoffs and screws that I can give them twenty bucks for because I just don't even have a clue how to match these and I'd rather just put in new standoffs that will accept standard mobo screws.
Does this sound strange? It should, it's the first time I've ever run across this kind of oddball problem.
At least I didn't pay much for the case, five bucks...it's a nice big fat case with rack mount ears which is perfect for me because I have a rack with one machine in it already.
So? Anyone want to make an easy twenty bucks by mailing me a bag or jar from their junk drawer?
Jeff H in Whittier CA
Not professionally, although I know I did a pretty decent job of it, for myself and the fam.
I probably built something like ten or twelve machines over the years, maybe thirteen.
Got out of it around Windows 7 and have moved a couple of times since then and now I've lost all the little glass jars I used to keep all my computer screws and widgets in. Oh, they might still be somewhere, like in "the 908723498763549874598745th box I finally look at in the garage."
When I am eighty-four years old I'll find them, right? :lol:
I bought a server case many years ago with the intent of putting a new mobo in it and I'm stymied by the standoffs having some weird thread size or pitch that doesn't match the screws from any motherboard I know of and it's the first time I've ever encountered that.
I'm hoping someone just has a couple of extra bags or jars of miscellaneous motherboard standoffs and screws that I can give them twenty bucks for because I just don't even have a clue how to match these and I'd rather just put in new standoffs that will accept standard mobo screws.
Does this sound strange? It should, it's the first time I've ever run across this kind of oddball problem.
At least I didn't pay much for the case, five bucks...it's a nice big fat case with rack mount ears which is perfect for me because I have a rack with one machine in it already.
So? Anyone want to make an easy twenty bucks by mailing me a bag or jar from their junk drawer?
Jeff H in Whittier CA