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New MessagePossible on board IDE Connector (modified 0 times) Skypilot
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Well, I've been snooping around some of the connectors on board. CN6 is a 40pin mini connector. Could that possibly be another IDE connector? Other interesting ones are: CN3 and CN5 are standard 2x5 10 pin connectors - serial ports? Another connector just to the left of the head sink is a 30 pin ribbon connector.

And behind a black sticker on the case was lo and behold, the RJ45 connector (next to the two RJ11's).

CN31 next to the corner of the Sandisk looks interesting too.

I have not clue what these may be for, but hopefully someone else can trace them down.

PS - I don't have an IDE connector on the board. I'm going to try and load another OS on a 64mb Sandisk and give that a try. If that works, I notice Fry's has 64mb CF's for about $50.

PS - the speakers are HUGE. They should work go for music if we can ever get them running.

I'll most some pic's I took later this weekend.

Skypilot - "Keep the blue side up"
05-11-2001 16:55:17

New MessageRE:Possible on board IDE Connector (modified 0 times) BigDog
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I think CN6 is an alternate connection for the LCD, the same connecter is on the Virgin Webplayer and on the Webplayer it connects to the LCD display and CN6 is on the other side of the board from were the IDE controller is, normaly, they tend to place the interfaces close to the controller chips of that interface.
05-11-2001 17:33:40

New MessageRE:Possible on board IDE Connector (modified 0 times) Naplm1
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anyone soldered a serial connector yet?
06-13-2001 20:50:33

New MessageRE:Possible on board IDE Connector (modified 0 times) BigDog
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What type of soldering on the serial port are you refering to???

I haven't seen any yet that don't have the COM1(modem) or COM2 headers soldered on from the factory.

06-14-2001 12:56:56

New MessageRE:Possible on board IDE Connector (modified 0 times) Naplm1
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which connecter is com 2?
I never seen the connecters referenced for sure, I was wondering if one of the headers was indeed a serial.
06-14-2001 14:20:08

New MessageRE:Possible on board IDE Connector (modified 0 times) jmayes
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Has everyone given up on the hardware?

I am ready to rip this thing apart and give it new anatomy!

Here is what I have figured out so far,
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CN6 40pin mini conn is indeed an alt. LCD connector, can anyone give LCD numbers for the Virgin Webplayer or Webplayer that use the same connector??? Or a def. of the conn. it self??

CN5 10pin 2mm connector near the cf card could be a Serial port? Comm2? (some one please confirm)

CN15 26pin 2mm connector above the network card simm and just below the battery- No Idea???

J1 30pin .5mm flat ribbon connector between the big ALI chip and the CPU- No Idea???

CN3 is the Analog VGA connector (Confirmed)

I believe cn17 (the "Fox Conn" 123p simm for the network card) is actually a mini ISA slot (Speculation)

Cn19 100 pin copper pads with no connector soldered that sits offset under the modem, another expansion connector??? (Another Speculation)

Anyone with information please chime in!!!

ļ :) Happy hacking
ļ :) Jmayes

07-02-2002 18:59:10

New MessageRE:Possible on board IDE Connector (modified 0 times) BigDog
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CN5 is COM2 (search for RS232 in this section and you will find the pinouts)
CN13 is COM1 (same pinouts as the i-Opener COM1/modem)

Some time ago I made a special 10 pin cable and hooked up Badflash's RS232 board to convert the TTL ports to full function RS232 ports

CN15 is a printer port and PS/2 keyboard-mouse ports, the printer port works fine with no mods, the PS2 ports require lifting 3 or 4 pins on the U47 bios chip and installed a 8 postion resister array at RN33 like what is installed at RN32 (Programmer or Codeman did the pinouts for this port, again search this section for CN15 to find it)


Now if you want a challange, figure out the componants that are needed to activate the PCMCIA controller including the PCMCIA socket at CN19 (above the RG-11 & RG45 sockets)


The thing that hurts the GCT is the fact that the CPU isn't socketed like the i-Opener; if it was it would more popular than the i-Opener since it's basicly the same design. Also if there was more info on the Transmeta processor such as the way to upload new firmware to the CPU since that's what makes one of differences between the 400mhz and 500-800 processors (other than of cource a smaller micron design)

Figure out how to overclock the GCT to 500 mhz and there might be more interest too!

07-06-2002 19:30:08

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