On Mon Aug 8 21:25:17 BST 2016, Christopher Havel wrote: > @ David -- by my eyes, that actually looks to be an incredibly nice, clean, > and tidy production. I have a spare motherboard (ignoring busted audio jack > and one questionable USB port) for my trusty ASUS 1000HE netbook. I was > thinking of desktopping it until I saw just what a mess it would be simply > hooking up a power button... the power button PCB connects to the > motherboard with a tiny flat flex cable (FFC -- the little white fiddly > cables in laptops that like to tear) and the pin pitch is frightening, at > best... never mind rigging in a new cooling solution, since the original > "heatsink" is the keyboard underlay! And so on.
I think I may have been a bit harsh on the old beast. Samsung did a pretty good job of integrating everything on the motherboard. It's just a shame that they had to include everything except the kitchen sink. It's not like I have to deal with multiple boards strung together with cables. The board, once extracted, is self-contained. > May I ask how you handled that very issue (power button) yourself? Is video > out automatically handled by BIOS or did you have to twiddle something...? > Is it still hooked to the old battery? etc. The power button is a simple push button at the top-right of the motherboard. The top part of the board was covered by a panel with a grille that sat on top of the fans and plastic covers for each of the buttons (Internet, e-mail, user and power). Video out is handled by the BIOS. I haven't connected the battery - the board doesn't seem to need it. I also left out the CD/DVD drive because I think it no longer works. Oh, and the speaker outputs aren't connected to anything. I think I unplugged the soft-modem at some point in the distant past. > You can email me off-list if Luke gets ornery ;) but I'm rather curious as > to the full implementation and all. I'll risk it for now. ;-) Really, what you see in the pictures is all there was to it, unless you want to see pictures of the inside of the case. The only thing I added was the black CompactFlash adapter that plugs into the IDE slot. Feel free to ask me more questions privately if you want. David _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
