i went over my old rig and removed the dust bunny colonies that have consumed it. the face plate was attached with a hot glue gun (it was damaged one of the times i moved it), so i knifed it off, removed all the shorted out leds that have been disconnected from the power supply for years, thus eliminating a mess of wires. i fixed an issue where the front fan would clip on stuff making an annoying clicking noise, it only required about 8 small washers and clipping the corners off the fan blades to fix. i removed everything from the case that is not essential to its running. some modular cable lines were empty, and i decided that the flash card reader would be better off in the new rig. it took me 2 seconds to pull the thing out of its rack and detach the rails.
an hour later i finally got it installed in the new rig. it had this dual purpose bay which could fit a 5.25" drive or, with an adapter plate and a panel adapter, a 3.5" drive. this in and of itself is ok. it would have been better id they had slotted holes instead of just round ones. i could not get the dcard reader to flush out with the front panel. turns out i attached the adapter plate backwards, it looked symmetrical when i installed it, but i guess it wasnt. its still kinda recessed a bit. but i guess its fine. its sad that how simply the way the holes are stamped out really effects a build.
