ATX or Micro-ATX

[depontius]

The board I'm currently using for my server came from a hamfest. I've got several other hamfest boards around, and find that I may need to swap things a bit, but I don't know.

I'm looking at building a Myth box, and would prefer to use spare parts. That means a Micro-ATX board to fit the case. It also means an AGP slot to plug in the hamfest MX-400 card to get decent TV-out. All of my other Micro-ATX boards have integrated video, and besides being insufficient for video, don't have TV-out. The board in my server has an AGP graphics card (old Matrox G400) plugged into it, but I don't know if it's Micro-ATX or full ATX.

Obviously I can take down my lan, take down my server, and see what's inside. But it's inconvenient and annoying. Besides, it's a bit of a challenge to see if I can figure out electrically, preferably over my lan and without actually looking at the box, what the heck is inside. I guess I could take a mirror and look at the back-panel. If it's Micro-ATX it's fully stuffed - a graphics card, a Promise card, and 2 ethernet cards. In general I wouldn't cram all 4 cards in adjacent closest-to-CPU slots, I'd spread them out and prefer the bottom of the case for cool air. If they're crammed, it's most likely Micro-ATX.

But like I said, finding out electrically is a bit of a challenge. So far lspci appears to tell what a box does have plugged in, not what it can have. Physical slots appear to have no particular significance, which I guess makes sense.
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[NeddySeagoon]

depontius,

Try dmidecode.
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NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

[depontius]

Darn.

It's a full ATX. 6 PCI and 1 AGP.

Thanks for the info. I remember hearing about dmidecode an trying it out long ago, but had forgotten about it.
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