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Wanted: old-style I/O shield with the slot cover tabs not broken off

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The Design:

https://ibb.co/HpCb9WD

I/O shields with only a few ports and breakable tabs like this are rare and found mainly with vintage 90's motherboards or new-in-box beige ATX cases.


See those tab covers on the gameport and audio ports on this sample picture? I want one with the hole placement looking like this but has tab covers on all ports so I can peel them off for myself. I have a motherboard that I want to have a cleaner look by covering up the ports I won't use. At the very least I need the parallel port covered up on the I/O shield.


I only need the following exposed, based this I/O shield design in the above photo:

Two PS/2 ports

Two USB ports

Two serial ports


This is what I want my I/O shield to look like, based on this description:

https://ibb.co/2Pd23vf


It does not have to be the breakable tab design, as long as it is an I/O shield that only allows the ones I want in the list. Needs to be metal too.

Thanks guys.
 
Something like this might be the best you can hope for because almost everything from that era had a dang Parallel Port poking out the back that required the port to be opened.

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That's the problem--almost any vintage I/O shield will have a parallel port cutout on it. I think I've got one without, but it's in use currently. I've got one with punchout tabs, but it's not for the usual outline--it attaches with screws.
 
Syclops said:
Something like this might be the best you can hope for because almost everything from that era had a dang Parallel Port poking out the back that required the port to be opened.

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YOU ARE A GENIUS!!! Why didn't I think of that, I simply plug the LPT port...

I have some of those covers myself. Please, please take a picture of the other side so I may replicate your design. Syclops, thank you so much! I'm so glad I asked.
 
I have a 286 case that has one serial and one parallel port hole covered with just an internal cover and an outside screw to secure it and another, a black case, that has three parallel holes and two serial holes with all the covers still in place.
 
Stone said:
I have a 286 case that has one serial and one parallel port hole covered with just an internal cover and an outside screw to secure it and another, a black case, that has three parallel holes and two serial holes with all the covers still in place.
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I should have said two outside screws as there are two of them in the normal end notches of each port cover.
 
I looked at the one that I have with punch-outs. The LPT DB25 hole is already punched out.

I've got a couple of ones from HP where the unneeded (but present) holes are simply covered over with a piece of thick gray vinyl that occupies the entire recess. Looks good.
 
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