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Ah. I had looked at that header and, not having the appropriate connector available for repurposing, opted to splice/solder/tape just upstream of the mobo connector. In doing so, I must've somehow compromised the +12. I'm planning on pressing one of mine into firewall duty (snoozeville, I know), but was thinking of using one or more of the others to drive two old (USB1-era) webcams I have, and having them stream their data over the network onto my MythTV box for viewing from...well, anywhere. (If for no other reason than, "Because I can.") Cheers, - -sth sam hooker|[email protected]|http://www.noiseplant.com Are you satisfied? ([y]/n): - ----- "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > There's a set of 4 pins labeled PWCON1 near the middle of the back > side of the thin client, or least there is on the model I have. You > can get +5 off of one pair of those pins. Right now, I've set mine up > to stream whatever is playing on my desktop computer. I'm digging > through my box of old computer parts looking for a PCI or USB wireless > adapter so I can put it in another room. The integrated sound card is > pretty noisy, but with the the volume turned all the way up it's not > very noticeable. > > Asa > > > On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Sam Hooker < [email protected] > > wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Asa, > > Which pins did you use? I tapped the innermost +5 line (on the mobo > connector) and the adjacent ground and, while the IDE module seems to > show up at boot time ("invalid startup disk; press any key..."), it > appears that I've now energized the chassis. ;-) > > Now, to be fair, this may have been the case before -- I hadn't > handled the (nearly-all-metal) case with the machine powered, > previously. My EE-Fu is insufficient to propose potential (har-har) > causes for a short apart from to say that there's no bare conductor > that I can identify. Any thoughts from the more hardware-savvy in the > audience? > > > Cheers, > > - -sth > > sam hooker| [email protected] | http://www.noiseplant.com > > Are you satisfied? ([y]/n): > > > > > - ----- " [email protected] " < [email protected] > wrote: > > > I finally got around to installing Debian on one of the old Neoware > > thin clients that were offered on the list a few months ago. It took > > a > > little more work than I expected . . . copying Sam, I bought a 1GB > > flash IDE module from Logic Supply. It turns out there's not any > > molex > > connectors in the thin client, but I found some pins with the right > > voltage, and taped something together. Netbooting didn't work, so I > > ended up putting the flash module in another computer, installing > > Debian from CD, then moving it back to the thin client. I've got > > screen, ssh server and sudo installed . . .now, I just need to find > > something to do with it. The spare PCI slot, and integrated audio > > offers some interesting options. > > > > Has anyone else done anything with them yet? > > > > Asa > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) > Comment: Use GnuPG with Firefox : http://getfiregpg.org (Version: > 0.7.5) > > iEYEARECAAYFAko+/F0ACgkQX8KByLv3aQ14QQCg3611te297GXJxQzEnvraH3mb > wqIAn10sQQR50SISi4XmPhrc+BMo4dJ3 > =y5as > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Use GnuPG with Firefox : http://getfiregpg.org (Version: 0.7.6) iEYEARECAAYFAko/iKYACgkQX8KByLv3aQ030QCfb8MRZwDg70/pQRTUFpm9Gn3Q WJMAn2+rhB4T1HVaIdbmXLtcBGmmLlW7 =fMjy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
