So the next stage was to finally put the board in! This was probably going to be the hardest part of the mod as I had a feeling it wasn't going to fit in as easily as the PSU did. The first thing I did was take a look at the rear of the PC where I was expecting to have the back-panel.

In that hole there used to be the panel for the SCSI in/out this unit had. A quick screw with the ol' screw driver and we have the starters of a hole.

But this hole is not quite wide enough, so I took a back-panel plate and put it up against the case to measure out the extra width I needed. Out came the dremel and I had my hole. Here you can see it before I popped it out and finished off the corners.

Now I certainly won't be wanting to install a window into THIS case because I had to cut away a small section of the lower 5 1/4" bay in order to get the motherboard in. As you can see it looks horrible, but you wouldn't believe how hard the angle was! The point is, I got the board in. It was such a firm fit I just used the glue gun to affix it into place because most of it was resting against the case.

Once the board and plate was in, there was unfortunelty a small amount of extra height due to the original hole being SLIGHTLY too big. So I used some aluminium sticky foil to just finish it off and hold it in place. But, its only the back of the case, right?

After a trip to wierd warehouse, I managed to get hold of a switch panel and finally we had a working computer. I wired up the led underneath the USB to the 5v supply directly in the PSU so that the LED gives us a sensor of when AC is in. The LED's on the panel will be for HDD and power. Well. It looks pretty quirky but the next stage its how I made it look all pretty!

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