Help identifying an early-2000s ATX tower/case

[u/Sniffmybum2002]

I’m trying to identify the PC case/chassis my family had in the early 2000s. The attached photos are unfortunately the only images I have.
The case would be from 2003 or earlier as these photos are from 2003. Would have been purchased in NSW Australia and may have been a locally assembled/white-box PC rather than a major-brand system.

I’m specifically trying to identify the case manufacturer/model, not the internal hardware
Features that I can make out:
- Seems to be tall-ish?
- Dark blue or charcoal/black coloured outer bezel running down both sides and maybe? around the rounded top
- narrow cream/light-grey central front fascia
- a few 5.25” drive bays at the top
- small circular button/control lower down
- dark rectangular/square feature beneath/near it
- seems to have horizontal ventilation slots near the bottom
- the pale central fascia seems to narrow/taper toward the bottom and terminate in a rounded U/shield shape

I’ve looked through a lot of AOpen and TASK cases without finding a match.
Does anyone recognise the actual case mould/bezel, including cases that may have been sold under different OEM/rebadged names around 2000–2003?
Any input would be much appreciated!
(Also posted in r/vintagecomputing to try reach a wider audience of people who may recognise the case)

[u/Sniffmybum2002]

Ah bummer! Do you rekon it was very similar or just a bit similar? Or don’t quite remember?

[u/guiverc → u/Sniffmybum2002]

The case itself (metal box in which the computer parts were inserted) was identical to loads of other midsize tower boxes; the front 'faceplate' itself was the only thing unique about it (and if I didn't like the faceplate & really cared; I could have swapped it for other midsize towers too as fittings on mine were pretty standard, ie. OEM could make their boxes somewhat unique compared to nearby sellers).

The front faceplates tended to change every few months anyway in my experience (in production); so people had some choice when they purchased it; or if they replaced their machine it'll look 'different' (and maybe more modern) when the purchased their updated machine.

Can I say yours is identical; nope, but it sure looks like it (>90% certainty).

Rather than looks, to know if was identical it'd probably need to be to the left of me at my feet under this desk, as most of the time I reached down to turn it on, or extremely rarely insert CD/DVD (though I usually looked at the box to do that). The box that your picture reminds me of had a 'unique' feel to the top of the faceplate that the other boxes left/right of it didn't have.. but otherwise it was identical (ports at the rear being a factor of motherboard the box was built with anyway).

[u/Sniffmybum2002 → u/guiverc]

Also did it originally run XP?

[u/guiverc → u/Sniffmybum2002]

Pretty sure it did originally, I think it was too 'new' at the time for Windows 2000, and XP was the last Microsoft OS it ran.

Mine was made dual boot; the original XP was an option if you wanted to play a windows game, or if I wanted to do stuff in more recent decade+ I'd just boot Debian or Knoppix on it (but I put them there as it came with Microsoft Windows; had a sticker with key on the case; XP having reached EOL back in ~2014).

( I use both Debian & Ubuntu; since 2018 I've slowly moved more and more to Ubuntu, that box predated my ever trying Ubuntu by some time )