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Back in 2013 I installed a Tyan S1564D into thiss case. see https://www.vcfed.org/forum/forum/g...ed-putting-a-pentium-mb-into-an-ibm-5160-case I use this same case for this install.
We'll start with the finished look.
It has a USB + card readers in one of the bays, a removable HD mobile tray and a DVD writer.
Next you have to love this:
I put the floppy drive under the DVD drive cutting through the bottom of the case. It not ideal but I wanted to keep a floppy to have when needed.
The overview of the inside is next.
The Tyan S1830 was the last AT motherboard Tyan made. It was originally a P2 motherboard; however with a BIOS upgrade you could use a P3 up to 1100Mhz if you can find one. I settled on a 850Mhz CPU. The motherboard allows you to use either an AT or ATX power supply it comes with both connectors then jumper select.
The Mobile HD rack was a major problem as it was too long. Being made out of aluminum and having a nice cutoff saw left over from my picture frame shop I cut it down 7/16 of an inch. I then had to drill and tap 6 holes on the frame and 12 more on the trays.
Case modifications were extensive. Both places that you normally would screw the motherboard down needed to be cutoff as they caused shorting issues with the motherboard. I had to fill in several holes in the area that the plastic risers would use and I used custom size risers and floated the board on top. I had to cut 1/2 the bottom floor of the left bay to make room for the memory banks.
I used an IBM riser turned upside down, the side holes worked and it could be attached to the left side bracket. I drilled and tapped 4 holes in the riser to attach the top bay that holds the USB - card reader.
The next issue was the power supply. The current one was an AT supply that I had installed in the XT power supply case back in 2013 but I wanted the ATX supply to use ATX features like auto shutdown. When I opened up the ATX supply I discovered it had the same footprint as the AT I had installed back in 2013 and would drop in on the same standoffs. I attached the on/off switch to the big red one. The motherboard allows a soft power switch to be attached on the front panel.
It was a PC power supply case.
A few more photos to complete the post
Back panel has an AGP 3dfx Voodoo3 video card. Uses 3 of 4 PCI slots 1 of 4 ISA slots for the sound card.
Linksys is used with WFW and DOS, Intel card 100/1000 works with XP, W2K and Win98SE, USB PCI card 2 ports on the back and 2 ports for the front.
And last the most important thing...
Performance is not too bad. I can get 30-50 fps with MS ftsim 2000. I will be investigating using a IDE to SATA converter or a PCI card to add SATA. Those did not work with the S1564D motherboard my gut says this one might.
All case modifications were done with just a Dremel, hand file and hand sheet metal nibbler.
Retirement make you do insane projects that others find ridiculous.
For the record I spend zero money to complete this project. All items were repurposed the Tomcat S1564D retired to a box, for now. I got the S1830 12+years ago cheap, check them out on ebay today. https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fr...yan+S1830&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&_odkw=S1830 It's a great board but really overpriced for fun...
We'll start with the finished look.
It has a USB + card readers in one of the bays, a removable HD mobile tray and a DVD writer.
Next you have to love this:
The overview of the inside is next.
The Tyan S1830 was the last AT motherboard Tyan made. It was originally a P2 motherboard; however with a BIOS upgrade you could use a P3 up to 1100Mhz if you can find one. I settled on a 850Mhz CPU. The motherboard allows you to use either an AT or ATX power supply it comes with both connectors then jumper select.
The Mobile HD rack was a major problem as it was too long. Being made out of aluminum and having a nice cutoff saw left over from my picture frame shop I cut it down 7/16 of an inch. I then had to drill and tap 6 holes on the frame and 12 more on the trays.
Case modifications were extensive. Both places that you normally would screw the motherboard down needed to be cutoff as they caused shorting issues with the motherboard. I had to fill in several holes in the area that the plastic risers would use and I used custom size risers and floated the board on top. I had to cut 1/2 the bottom floor of the left bay to make room for the memory banks.
I used an IBM riser turned upside down, the side holes worked and it could be attached to the left side bracket. I drilled and tapped 4 holes in the riser to attach the top bay that holds the USB - card reader.
The next issue was the power supply. The current one was an AT supply that I had installed in the XT power supply case back in 2013 but I wanted the ATX supply to use ATX features like auto shutdown. When I opened up the ATX supply I discovered it had the same footprint as the AT I had installed back in 2013 and would drop in on the same standoffs. I attached the on/off switch to the big red one. The motherboard allows a soft power switch to be attached on the front panel.
It was a PC power supply case.
A few more photos to complete the post
Back panel has an AGP 3dfx Voodoo3 video card. Uses 3 of 4 PCI slots 1 of 4 ISA slots for the sound card.
And last the most important thing...
Performance is not too bad. I can get 30-50 fps with MS ftsim 2000. I will be investigating using a IDE to SATA converter or a PCI card to add SATA. Those did not work with the S1564D motherboard my gut says this one might.
All case modifications were done with just a Dremel, hand file and hand sheet metal nibbler.
Retirement make you do insane projects that others find ridiculous.
For the record I spend zero money to complete this project. All items were repurposed the Tomcat S1564D retired to a box, for now. I got the S1830 12+years ago cheap, check them out on ebay today. https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fr...yan+S1830&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&_odkw=S1830 It's a great board but really overpriced for fun...
on it.
