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Monday, January 17, 2011

Dell XPS400 BTX Motherboard Swap to Intel D945Gcz

Dell XPS400 BTX Motherboard Swap to Intel D945Gcz Tube. Duration : 11.40 Mins.


System Specs: Intel LGA 775 Pentium D 940 2GB DDR2 800 @ 667Mhz Intel D945Gcz BTX mobo 250GB HDD ATI X300 256MB Windows 7 64bit RNX-N300X Wifi Stuff I had to do: *Take everything apart: pics coming soon. *Wash every piece of the computer.. gross. *Cut a new back I/O Plate hole *24pin ATX extender *New RAM *New MOBO *Custom fan controller, either the mobo was incompatible or the on board controller was fried. *Lapped cpu/HS *Applied AS5 to the Northbridge and CPU *Cut off the DELL proprietary front plate/power button connector and trace with multimeter/wire into standard 2x4 pin block. *Buy a new wifi card, silly marvel and windows 7 64bit dont play well together. *Still wired fan into mobo for speed sensor * Re-wired lower fan in case to new mobo * Extended SATA cable

Tags: Dell, XPS400, BTX, ATX vs BTX, Custom pin out, Dell XPS 400 pin out, Upgrade BTX