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ultracade computer replacement woes... info? *FIXED*
lilshawn:
well i received my e-bay board today... if i don't get sidetracked by anything else, i'll have another stab at this...wish me luck!
lilshawn:
ugh, the damn thing won't boot!
After some searching around (and I should have known being the disgusting greasy corporate entity that Compaq WAS) the damn Compaq boards use their own power supply pinout. causing the power supply to shut down since a bunch of 5 volt and 12 volt lines are being grounded aaaaaaaaaaarghhhh :banghead:
I'm going to step away for a bit before I start swinging hammers. I guess i'll hack up a old power supply ATX24 connector/plug to make a standard ATX to Compaq ATX power supply adapter. that way I don't need to frig around if the power supply croaks.
*sigh*
Comcrap...I mean Compaq:
http://pinouts.ru/Power/compaq_24p_power_pinout.shtml
Standard atx:
http://pinouts.ru/Power/atx_v2_pinout.shtml
lilshawn:
well i made an adapter harness to match the compaq pinout and the board still doesn't work.
i'm offically consfuswed. :dizzy:
Maybe a bum board? can anyone confirm or deny the power supply pinout? all of the searching i have done says it's standard ATX and others say it's proprietary.
lilshawn:
well i gave up on that particular board. it's part number is 187498-001. it does NOT have a standard 24 pin ATX...and apparently it didn't like the adapter I made for it either... the network controller chip blew up. i don't know if it was because I tried plugging a regular ATX power supply into it and killed it, and the proper power harness finished it off. :dunno
anyways i picked up 3 Compaq Deskpro EN series computers for $10. gotta love kijiji.
I originally bought 1 for $5, buddy was moving and had a bunch of them... didn't have any bites on them so he figures figured hey, why buy 1 when you can have 3?! :lol so i gave him $10 bucks for his trouble... he even wanted to offload some old keyboards/mice and a monitor... uhm... no thanks.. 3 computers was going to be hard enough to carry back to my van.
they have the same intel 815E chipset on them as the other board... good good... main board has part number 187500-001 (for future reference) P3 - 800mhz 512mb ram it runs good at this speed. (i think the original computer was a 1ghz.) i shouldn't need to upgrade the processor. i do have a couple of Celeron 1100A processors if it becomes an issue. they should work.
so I installed the system disk...cool no problems, called Global to get the basepack install code... twice... aparently the service guy had the machine ID written down wrong. :angry:
installed, tested, works alright. played a few games via keyboard....
now... to decide which cabinet will be sacrificed to the BYOAC god... :notworthy:
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