Re: HP DC5100 mobo

On 7/11/24 9:22 AM, Paul wrote:
> On 7/11/2024 9:13 AM, philo wrote:
> 
>> Thanks Paul, problem is my mobo has a 16 pin header.
>>
>> I have found no documentation for that one.
>>
>> I think I'm just going to leave it alone as the pause ...in a way ...can be helpful if I want to get into the BIOS
> 
> I have seen longer sets of pins on motherboards, and
> it's two sets of pins next to one another.
> 
> If they actually have "extra" pins on an assembly, then
> it is dead easy to design a sensor pin. Your product then
> needs a manual, to document how that works.
> 
> Looking at the cable assembly, may provide a hint. It
> all depends on whether a front panel PCB board is removable
> so you can examine PCB traces.
> 
>     Paul



The manual does not give the pinouts >

too bad I no longer have the original case>

I'm not going to pursue this any longer...it's just one of my my many 
test machines.

I have a whole slew of removable drive kits>

Some of the OSes I run on this machine are:

SCO_Unix
Solaris
Win2003 server
SUSE &
Zorin Linux
Oh...Win7 also