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Old Mini Tower Rebuild; Cable Connections To Mimi (7inchx7inch) Motherboard Continuing Saga.
by Kermit Bengtson
(El Paso, Texas USA)
Monte, here is and up date of the progress of this rebuild. After careful study and review of several mini motherboards I decided on a Jetway with an intel Atom 330 2 core processor soddered to the board. The cpu is a 533 and the most that the memory can be is 2gig so ordered a kingston ddr2 2gig 533 memory chip. Learned that the Orignal 250 watt power supply did not have a 24 or 20 pin connector but an 18 pin connector. Has other issues!
Now an Ultra 350 watt SATA Power Supply is on the way. This power supply has power conectors for IDE drives as well as flopp drive. A huge 140MM bottom mounted fan that should suck a lot of air. Yes I checked to make sure it would fit in the 7 inch wide tower.
The motherboard has headders for IDE, floppy and 2 SATA Drives..
Futher complications; the new mother board uses the same type of connectors for power and reset. The old system the power switch turned the power supply on and off. Now I need to find a suorce for the power switch!! I guess that this will be a momentary contact switch, single contact? If needed I can use the wires and connectors from the old turbo switch it is a push lock on; push unlock off switch and do not belive it will meet my needs. Am I correct in my evaluation of the power switch?
Have scratched the using of that 40 gig hard drive from a second defunk tower. Will be getting a 160gig sata hard drive and getting a XP home SP3 install disk.(Plan to use this tower in some future point as a home server. But that is just more money down the road.)
Next problen is the audio cord from the CD Drive is a 3 wire a red black and white the conector is designed for 4 wires. The motherboard manual shows a 4 wire connector with 2 ground wires. I may be reading into this but want to make sure I am covering all bases!
Will let you know, the out come of this adventure. My next big adventure will be the BIOS.
Again your suggestions please. Thanks,
Kermit
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