Dead Shuttle XPC - replace mobo

[themisfit610]

Hi all,

A friend recently gave me his dead Shuttle XPC. It's an older box, with an Athlon XP 2500+ of the Barton variety.

After tearing it down, I determined the motherboard is most likely dead (PSU starts on its own, but the system won't power up via the case switch or shorting the PWR jumpers.

I was hoping to make a NAS out of this little box, and would love to toss a new motherboard in it.

Question - can I put a new motherboard in this system? I think an Atom based solution would be ideal. Will this case accept a standard micro-ATX motherboard, or something like that?

Thanks!

~MiSfit

 

[MotionMan]

Originally posted by: themisfit610
Hi all,

A friend recently gave me his dead Shuttle XPC. It's an older box, with an Athlon XP 2500+ of the Barton variety.

After tearing it down, I determined the motherboard is most likely dead (PSU starts on its own, but the system won't power up via the case switch or shorting the PWR jumpers.

I was hoping to make a NAS out of this little box, and would love to toss a new motherboard in it.

Question - can I put a new motherboard in this system? I think an Atom based solution would be ideal. Will this case accept a standard micro-ATX motherboard, or something like that?

Thanks!

~MiSfit

Generally speaking, the only motherboards that will work in Shuttle cases are Shuttle motherboards. What model is the Shuttle or mobo.

MotionMan (BTW, see here for some possible Shuttle replacements.)

 

[Zap]

The boards in Shuttle systems are a type of Flex ATX, I think. Mini ITX is smaller so as long as screw holes line up, the Intel Atom board would fit.

 

[MotionMan]

Originally posted by: Zap
The boards in Shuttle systems are a type of Flex ATX, I think. Mini ITX is smaller so as long as screw holes line up, the Intel Atom board would fit.

And the power connectors need to line up or you will have to find a way to extend them. And you will have to find a way to cool it as the ICE will probably not fit on a non-Shuttle mobo.

MotionMan

 

[themisfit610]

eh..

this is sounding like it's going to be un-fun.

Oh well, there's no room for expansion inside that sucker for a NAS anyway. 2 HDD's is simply not enough, even if I ran FreeNAS off a CF card.

Thanks anyway!!!

~MiSfit