modifying my motherboard????

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heeh2

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i posted here a wile ago about breaking the back off of my computer case to fit in my video card (the case was preventing the card from reaching the agp slot) but after installing the video card and using it for about three days, its starting to pop up because a serial port is to the bottom left of the card


serial port
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my computer has two of them, an a and a b, and i dont use either

the video card works fine even though i had to bend it because the serial port was in the way, but now its coming out....and its because of the serial port

do you think i could safely take it out without hurting my motherboard?

i would really only need to take out the left side of it....
 
The first thing I would have considered before damaging an expansion card like a video or sound card? or even the main board? would be to start looking at a new case! If you aren't stuck with a prebuilt system there are plenty of newer more roomy cases to look over without super high prices seen.
 
i knew that was an option.....but swaping a pentium three.....

is not easy...at all....

i just want to know if i can take this useless serial port off without messing my motherboard up
 
Yeah, if you do it right. If I had to, I would take a soldering iron to in and remove it that way, so you don't actually break anything.
 
well basically....i was gonna take these

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and cut it off....



with surgical precision of coarse

8)
 
That would work, just make sure your not cutting anything thats in a closed circuit and make sure that everything stays straight and isn't shorting out.
 
That method spells disaster fast enough. You'll probably end up tearing up a traceway on the board if you don't manage to cut into it. For removing a board out of one case into another you don't always have to remove the spu and hsf unless you are planning a reseat or a new cpu cooler. You just have to unplug every power connection and unmount from old to remount it in the new with care.
 
could you post a pic of your case? (sorry, i'm just curious now.. :o )

and, pc eye is right, altough, we dont know what board format it actually is, either way, if its ATX for example, you could just get a ATX case (I gues you can get a really cheap one, or a free one 2nd hand or so) and just put over all the hardware. you dont need to take the CPU off the motherboard to place it into another case, just unplug the cable's and swap everything.

as for removing the serial port, yes its doable, but you have to be really carefull, and make sure you dont hit anything thats not ment to be hit.
also you will have to make sure you dont create any short circuit with bend pin's or so.

Imo, the best course of action would be to look for a other case,. but, both way's should work :)
 
Hack jobs witth hardwares never do seem to work out since most traceways and other things on hardwares are simply not meant to be chopped off! There are simply too many ways to ruin a good board or anything else. One older 2002 blog spells out "Computer can be ruined in a nanosecond" seen at http://www.marydonovan.com/tecbud/oldcols/ruin.html Now you want to cut away at the board? :eek: !
 
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