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TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) Wild_Pencil Profile | Email Got my samples for CN2 last week. It was a slightly tight fit, but it is the correct connector. Should be able to hook the IO up to my monitor in a few more days, and hopefully I'll be able to figure out how to turn on the TFT mode. For those interested, I've posted the Cyberblade datasheet in my Y! Briefcase for easy reference. Lots of IOpener-related resources are starting to go 404. -WP 09-02-2003 12:16:13

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) oldman Profile | Email Wild_Pencil: you may be interested in how YouBecha replaced a DSTN with a TFT in his Fujitsu Stylistic. see the Fujitsu board, TFT Screen entries. no details posted yet, but all he did was hook it up, no programming. the fujitsu uses a Magic Graph 128zv display controller made by NeoMagic Corp. i could find little data on this chip. Have fun, oldman 09-02-2003 20:34:25

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) KneuB_2 Profile | Email This is the fifth thread in the series to get TFT working on the i-opener. Below are links to the prior four. TFT Screen Part IV TFT Screen Part III TFT Screen Part II TFT Screen Part I Wild_Pencil You have my attention. Also you mentioned "SAMPLE" CN2 connector, could you post a link to the sample in the Free Sample Links thread. 09-02-2003 22:36:18

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) Wild_Pencil Profile | Email Now that I'm looking back at the archives I'm thinking that the pinouts we've been attempting to use aren't correct. The original pinout thread is here: http://www.linux-hacker.net/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.pl?Action=ShowPost&Board=technical&Post=2013&Idle=0&Sort=0&Order=Descend&Page=0&Session= The pinouts in the above post were based on the mappings of a Geode chip, not the Cyberblade i7. I think it was assumed that the Geode and Cyberblade chips would map and drive the pins the same way across the different modes, but I don't see the correlation here. I'm looking at the mapping from the Cyberblade specs, page 6-15, and I found the Geode specs' page 21, which was used for the original mappings, and I don't see them matching up. Someone with time and mental focus ( :) ), please doublecheck my findings in the two PDF files: http://www.national.com/ds/CS/CS9211.pdf http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/users/adafd72c/bc/I-Opener+Files/IOpener+DataSheets/Trident_Cyberblade_i7_cbi7.pdf?BCe4ZV_AFJNh1Cfe If my reading comprehension is correct, this should be the correct mapping: CN2 Pin = TFT18 Signal 1 = R5 (Red) 2 = R4 3 = R3 4 = R2 5 = VSS/GND 6 = G5 (Green) 7 = G4 8 = G3 9 = G2 10 = VSS/GND 11 = B5 (Blue) 12 = B4 13 = B3 14 = B2 15 = VSS/GND 16 = R1 (Red) 17 = R0 18 = G1 (Green) 19 = G0 20 = VSS/GND 21 = Unused/Notch (This may need to be connected; it is "DE" according to Codeman) 22 = LP/HSYNC 23 = YD/VSYNC 24 = XCLK 25 = VSS/GND 26 = VCON (Contrast Control?) 27 = DISP/ENVEE 28 = VDD/3.3v 29 = VDD/3.3v 30 = VDD/3.3v Gwizah might be interested in hearing about this and trying it out, BTW.. I notice his first attempt was based on the original pinouts. And if I'm smoking crack or totally missed something obvious, please let me know. -WP 09-03-2003 01:18:11

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 1 times) Wild_Pencil Profile | Email Ah, ok, KneuB_2 had posted that pinout spec months ago. I must've been in mid-move at the time. 09-03-2003 12:49:30

TFT Screen, Part V (modified 1 times) KneuB_2 Profile | Email Wild_Pencil The pinouts that I posted were obtained from stripping a V5 board and following the traces (pin 21 was DE). I noted that the pinouts that I came up with were slightly different than the pinouts that programmer came up with when he stripped an earlier board (V1 I think, but I'm not sure). I also noted that a couple of the pins could swap functionality depending on which resistor pads were populated (I do not remember off the top of my head which pins, however I did post that info). The point that I'm driving at is that since we know there have been two different screens for the I-opener there is a possibility that the pinouts may vary somewhat depending on which board version you are dealing with. Which board version are you dealing with? BTW; I can no longer find your Yahoo briefcase and the link to the cyberblade spec above generates error messages when I try it. Could you repost the link to your briefcase please. 09-03-2003 23:49:45

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 2 times) Wild_Pencil Profile | Email 'Saw a 10.4" 600x800 LCD panel on ebay that I just couldn't resist. Got the winning bid for a LG/Philips LP104S2 on Ebay; whose pinouts are online at lcdspecifications.com. Finally, a TFT screen with known pinouts to try out. I should receive the display by the end of next week, along with a couple of matching hirose connectors ordered from DigiKey. My Y! briefcase should be at http://briefcase.yahoo.com/wild_pencil 09-04-2003 00:06:55

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 1 times) Wild_Pencil Profile | Email Programmer's original traces are OK, I think. In his 2nd pinouts posting, he used the cross-reference table from a Geode chip, thinking that the pin functions were identical. (We didn't have the Cyberblade datasheet at the time, and that was a "best guess"). Just like you, I noticed that some of the PD[n] pins have different meanings, depending on the display mode being used. The pinouts I posted above are based on Programmer's original traces to DSTN signals, mapped back to PD[n] lines on the Cyberblade, and then mapped forward to RGB lines for an 18-bit TFT display. I think the screens are universal, as long as you keep the screen and its LCD cable together. I swapped screens between a V5 and a V3 with no problem. Sadly, the V5 gave up the ghost so I'm only working on the four V3's I have left. -WP 09-04-2003 00:18:52

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) YouBecha Profile On a different project I was working on, I took apart a Fujitsu 1200 that came with a DSTN screen, and used the whole assembly for an indash computer... Later I aquired another Fujitsu 1200, but this one came with a TFT screen. My plan was to drop the TFT screen into where I had the DSTN screen. I did, and it worked just fine. So the question is, where is the TFT vs DSTN information stored...or are they universal? I could power up to either screen with no changes in anything...bios or otherwise. This relates to the subject here because I can't see why you cannot simply hook a TFT screen to the correct pins and have it work. Is there more to the problem? http://www.geocities.com/mr_bubba_zanetti/ 09-04-2003 07:02:50

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 1 times) Wild_Pencil Profile | Email You hit it on the head. Though, in your case I think you were lucky because you got LCD panels for (essentially) the same base computer. I'm sure that Fujitsu intended the TFT to be a drop-in replacement, and designed the pinouts accordingly. The mappings for the Cyberblade are on page 6-15 of the datasheet, and show DSTN and TFT mappings across a couple of different bit depths. I have a copy of the datasheet in my Y! Briefcase. I haven't found a TFT that had a pin-for-pin correlation to the IOpener's pinout, so a custom cable is in the works. As long as the signals match, it really should just work. -WP 09-04-2003 10:35:36

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) KneuB_2 Profile | Email Wild_Pencil Have you received the new screen yet? How goes the battle? 09-10-2003 23:05:59

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) Wild_Pencil Profile | Email No-go just yet... Got all the parts in over the week, and started building the cable last night. Those Hirose are a pain to solder to, so I've had a heck of a time trying to get everything connected without burning the contacts right off. Honestly, I don't know how the guru-hackers can claim to do this kind of intricate work with off-the-shelf soldering equipment. My first attempt didn't work, and it'll be another week before I'll have another go at it. (Have to go on a week-long business trip next week. Arrgh, what lousy timing..) In my Y! Briefcase, ("TFT Upgrade Gallery" folder) you can see the pretty "Rainbow Bars" that I got, though. I'm not too discouraged yet, since I know the cable wasn't exactly my best work. I've got another set of connectors, and will give it another go when I come back. Probably will invest in some better soldering equipment, too. -WP 09-13-2003 13:47:17

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) Tom61 Profile | Email What's the chance of this working without modifying the BIOS? I may have to try this myself, since I have a TFT with wiring laying around. I could probably lop off the black connector on the IO LCD cable and the end of the TFT's cable and connect the wires together. However, I still have the orginal V5 BIOS (unmodded), so will a modded BIOS be needed to drive the TFT? 09-13-2003 15:15:18

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) Wild_Pencil Profile | Email Nobody's really sure if a TFT screen would work outright with the current BIOS. There doesn't seem to be a way for the hardware to detect the type of screen installed, except for 3 resistors that give a sort of "startup hint". Further up in the threads, people have noted that this "hint" is set to suggest an 18-bit TFT; but the IOpener goes into 18-Bit DSTN mode anyway. Plus, Netpliance had BIOS Floppy support removed, and specifically had CN2 hardware-designed for DSTN (you'd need 2 extra lines for Blue to drive an 18-Bit TFT). It's also no secret that Netpliance totally went out of their way to cripple the BIOS in the first place... so I'd say it's a fair chance we'd need a little software or firmware tweak. I've got the BIOS from the IOpener's cousin, and though it's a pain to get it running in an IOpener, it does explicitly support DSTN and TFT in the BIOS menus. So I'm thinking that once I get a working TFT panel running under this alternate BIOS, I can take a PCI register snapshot, figure out the differences, and apply them in a batch file via PCI.EXE to see if I can reproduce those results on the original IOpener's BIOS. If so, there will eventually be a TFT-specific BIOS released. If you know your way around the Cyberblade datasheet, are good with batch files, and know your way around the PCI.EXE register tuning application, then you've probably got the basic skills and resources you need to work on this hack. It'll probably help a lot if you hook up a normal monitor to the VGA port to see what's going on while the LCD panel is on the fritz during all this testing... :o) 09-13-2003 21:50:32

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) Wild_Pencil Profile | Email Not much to report this weekend. I've been in contact with a few cabling companies to see if I can get samples of Hirose and JAE cable assemblies (or a complete made-to-order cable). Otherwise, I'll be attempting another soldering atrocity in another week. This week I'm just focusing on getting my machine to boot the Advantech BIOS, and then I'll see if I can patch it so I don't need to do the "Sacred Voodoo Ritual" (hotswapping and clearing out the CMOS in a specific sequence) just to get it started. -WP 09-27-2003 16:32:08

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) KneuB_2 Profile | Email Wild_Pencil I just did not want you to feel all alone out there. You have my attention on this one. Granted at this point all I can see that I could help with is to play cheer leader. 09-28-2003 00:03:49

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) Rezz Profile | Email Rah Rah Rah Sis Boom Bah Go o o o Wild_Pencil I'd rather be helping out but since I do not know how to do that in this case I'll cheer you on as well 09-29-2003 20:23:41

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) oldman Profile | Email Wild_Pencil: Which Advantech bios are you trying? Have fun, oldman 09-29-2003 20:52:12

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) Rezz Profile | Email Wild_Pencil I'm still hear (albeit in the philippines) waiting with beited breath, any progress? 10-22-2003 07:39:31

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) KneuB_2 Profile | Email Hey Rezz I'm in the Philippines also, but only for a few more hours. Yep, I keep watching this thread too. If you are going to be here long, see if you can get your hands on a GPS unit (assuming you don't already have one) and check out http://www.geocaching.com . Then search around the Philippines and see if there are any near you, it looks kind of fun. 10-23-2003 09:17:48

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) Wild_Pencil Profile | Email Still working on the BIOS issues while the cables are being made. (Boy, these manufacturing shops sure take their time.. heh) I'm using an Advantech 6572(N) BIOS, which (currently) will only take after a warm-boot plus a full CMOS wipe. (I usually wipe the CMOS first, and then either hot-swap the chip or flash the Advantech BIOS image over the IOpener's image), . I'm guessing some of the major CMOS offsets are skewed, which prevents the Advantech BIOS from being a clean drop-in replacement. So, I'm really just poking around at this BIOS while the reliable cable is being made. Hopefully it's not too long now. -WP 10-23-2003 15:34:50

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) oldman Profile | Email Wild_Pencil: Did you get the bios from the Advantech web site? The pca6752N uses the Trident chip. Appendix D of the user manual tells about Advantech's LCD bios program where, for a fee, they will write the LCD bios routine for the customer and make a display cable if the display and display manual are sent to them. This makes me think that the bios code to run a LCD is NOT in the bios they have for download. You may want to ckeck into that. have fun, oldman 10-23-2003 23:16:39

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) Wild_Pencil Profile | Email Man oh man, it must be the Las Vegas luck throwing me a bit of ironic fortune. I received my first cable this afternoon, and it looks great. The ironic part is that I'm flying out to spend a long weekend with the g/f, and won't be able to play with this 'til Monday night. on the up side, though... I've got the Advantech BIOS running on my test IO, so I'm really hoping that this will be a plug-n-play thing. Since the Advantech board I snarfed this BIOS from was supposed to drive a TFT screen, and it does drive the DSTN screen through a BIOS setup option, things are looking very good. At least I can't blame a crappy soldering job on the cable this time, as it looks rock-solid. I just hope I didn't mess up the pin assignments.. Monday night it is. -WP 10-30-2003 13:46:59

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) KneuB_2 Profile | Email Wild_Pencil I shall be tuned in! 10-31-2003 19:39:52

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) Rezz Profile | Email Kneub_2 I'm back now also but that does look fun. I wonder if 02U2 has found any GPS units for us to play with Back to the main topic. Lets assume that Wild_Pencil succeeds, have you figured out the pinouts for the think pad so that we could give it a try after he gets the BIOS tweaked. From what I reacll you mentioned that the Thinkpad screens were the most prevalent on e-bay, and from what I can see they tend to be close to the cheapest also. 11-02-2003 13:58:50

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) Wild_Pencil Profile | Email Still no workie-workie. I get a solid white screen on the TFT now. At least it's not colorful garbage to suggest a botched pinout assignment. Ah well, it was a long-shot. Anyone following this thread and working on a panel with Hirose DF9 connectors.. beware the crimp-style Hirose connectors: they don't always fit. At the worst case, you'll need to trim away some of the LCD panel's outer frame. The SMT solder connectors should be OK, but good luck soldering such a fine-pitched connector. Ah well. It should be any day now. I have the TFT panel hooked up, and the machine is running in "Simultaneous" display mode, so I can see what I'm doing. Back to the spec-sheets and batch-files to tweak the PCI settings. At this point, I'd rather hack up the Advantech BIOS to drive the IOpener, since it has everything we'd expect of a BIOS. Real CDROM booting, and video-memory size adjustments make it very compelling. -WP 11-03-2003 21:55:44

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) oldman Profile | Email Wild_Pencil: I was worried that you were trying to use the bios from the advantech web site, which does not have any LCD code. I did a search on google to find newer drivers for the cyberblade and found that NEC, Sony, Compaq and even Packard Bell have used that chip. Some of these have bios upgrades that may be useful to get different tft code. I do have a copy of a Compaq bios upgrade. Since I got the vga lcd from the 'airport terminal' about a year ago, i am not in a rush to change the display in the i-o. I am following this thread. I am no good at writing X86 code, so I am in no hurry to get into doing a bios. have fun, oldman 11-04-2003 21:55:33

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) KneuB_2 Profile | Email Rezz Not exactly. The fuzzy illogic that I used to get where I'm at has left me at a point where I could play What-If games to finish off the last of the pin identification. However, it requires that I do this on a machine that we know is capable of driving the screen. A little catch 22 in my case. Wild_Pencil How goes the battle? 11-14-2003 01:58:17

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) Wild_Pencil Profile | Email Still working on the BIOS.. things have been slow going on my end, as I'm revisiting all of my old notes about the BIOS code. I have to rebuild my old development environment to get anything useful done. I'll give a heads-up to all if I throw in the towel; but for now, it still seems like all that's needed is a little nudge in the firmware. Just a little disappointed that I couldn't take a shortcut. :o) -WP 11-16-2003 21:54:48

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) Grima Profile | Email Ok, after almost a year out of the game because of getting married and the ensuing mayhem, I've started messing with my I-Opener again. Last I remember, I was going to get KnueB_2's help making a cable and then he ended up in the hospital, so I never sent the stuff. Since it's been so long, here's what I have: A hacked v3 I-Opener running Win98se A Sharp LQ10D367 10.4" 18bit TFT LCD screen Pinout for said screen Backlight inverter and LCD cable with Hirose connector for said screen I tried to read through the back posts, and if I understand what I've read, even if I were to wire up a cable to work with this screen, it would not work at present because of BIOS limitations, correct? Thanks, Grima 01-08-2004 10:28:37

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) KneuB_2 Profile | Email grima That is the way I understand the situation at the present. Wild_pencil built the cable, actually had a second one built also, and he is now working on the BIOS. I am still watching this thread daily and hoping that he is successful. While I wait I have been trying to get my duaghters i-opener onto my homes wireless net so she can play with the barbie.com and disney games without excessive waits. Unfortunately I'm having a little trouble, any suggestions would be appreciated. As for the hospital visit, that is pretty much in the past. I ended up with a cow valve in place of my aortic valve and it has now been almost a month since I heard a cow joke and almost three months since I heard a new cow joke. Three times a week I spend time at the hospital in the cardiac rehab unit and other than that life is pretty much normal. 01-08-2004 13:15:40

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 1 times) Grima Profile | Email Ok...I just requested the parts from Kensington Electronics to make the I-Opener end of the LCD cable. If Wild_Pencil should come through with the BIOS, I'll be prepared. Glad to hear you're doing better healthwise. 01-09-2004 09:50:17

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) KneuB_2 Profile | Email Wild_Pencil How goes the battle? Is there anything that we can help with? 01-31-2004 11:36:21

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) Wild_Pencil Profile | Email Sorry, it's been slow going on my end these last few months. 'Been sidetracked by my Tivo's dying hard-drive, along with spending quality time with the lady. Haven't forgotten about this hack, though my machine has been collecting dust lately. I'll get back into hacking up the BIOS "the hard way" soon. 02-21-2004 02:32:32

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) KneuB_2 Profile | Email wildpencile I'm glad to hear from you. If there is anyway that I can help please post. 02-25-2004 00:14:21

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) Grima Profile | Email Wild_Pencil: Had any time to hack on this yet? I'm anxiously awaiting a success story. 04-08-2004 13:47:07

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) Rezz Profile | Email Grima I have been reading some of the older threads and noticed that whenever wildpencil said he would do domething he always has. Some times he took a little time off for personal business but he always came back and kept his word. I've kept that in mind on my daily watch as I'm with you, anxiously awaiting a success story. But this time I'm starting to wonder since he has never taken this long to come back before. 04-08-2004 23:21:15

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) Grima Profile | Email Monthly no-progress bump :( 05-04-2004 09:31:06

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) Wild_Pencil Profile | Email Got back into full swing on this project over the last 2 weekends. Sliced up the BIOS startup ROM down as much as I could to isolate the section that activates the DSTN LCD... Now I'm diving into that area with a disassembler, and matching up the registers with what's published in the spec-sheets. If anything, I'll have a nice disassembly of the startup sequence. :o) I briefly passed over the section that initializes the memory chips. I can't promise anything yet, but I just bought an 8-chip 256M SODIMM and a 512M one to experiment with as well... -WP 05-04-2004 12:29:20

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) KneuB_2 Profile | Email Wild_Pencil Welcome back. It is really good to hear from you. 05-11-2004 13:08:20

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) Rezz Profile | Email Wild_Pencil: It is really good to see your are back with us. Imagine a dancing snoopy icon right here. 05-11-2004 22:45:52

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) KneuB_2 Profile | Email Wild_Pencil A little off topic tonight. In a prior thread you mentioned that you have flashed the BIOS several hundred times in your BIOS work, what flash utility are you using? The reason I ask is because I was just fiddeling with my daughters i-opener and trying to put an emergency boot disk onto the sandisk. Now that I've formated the sandisk as a primary DOS drive I no longer have a QNX OS to run the flash with. So I'm hopping that you are doing it with some other flash routine other than the one that runs under QNX. Am I in luck? 05-23-2004 23:45:17

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 1 times) Grima Profile | Email Wild_Pencil Any updates? 07-12-2004 14:52:02

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) GWIZAH Profile | Email Wow...You guys are still playing with the TFT screen? I never got around to finishing up my starter project and soon after abandoned the boards. So any luck? 08-24-2004 13:56:38

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) KneuB_2 Profile | Email GWIZAH It is good to see your name on the board again. I hope that Wild_pencil has not given up, I'm still tuned in. I'm just comming back from another vacation myself, it's time to get back into the swing of things here. Wild_pencil Any progress to share? 09-05-2004 00:16:00

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) jglh555 Profile hello, i dont know if anyone ever checks this anymore, but if so, i would like some help if at all possible. I have a few iopeners, and a few laptop monitrs, and one is tft and after MUCH searching I finally found a data sheet for it. my main problem is that none of the stuff matches up. on the laptop tft lcd i have 20 pins, only 12 of which are connected as follows: 1,2 VCC +5v 3,4 gnd 5 in0- 6 in+ 7,8 N/C 9 in1- 10 in1+ 11,12 n/c 13 in2- 14 in2+ 15, 16 n/c 17 clk- 18 clk+ 19/20 gnd and my question is where do i need to connect it to cn1 or cn2 or somewhere else? and in what order do i connect then pinwise? and do i need to group any wires? and will this screen even work with this idea? it is a ltm12c270 from a toshiba tecra. I am bound and determined to get this up and running as a last big project before i go off to college and this is just a small part of another project...ANY help whatsoever would help. just kinda hoping people still read this and maybe someone knows how it was done. thanks in advance 03-21-2005 09:52:48

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) jglh555 Profile also, i was reading through all the posts, and I saw people saying stuff about needing a bios update or using laptop bios'. i dont know how useful it is, if at all, but my oldest brother made a program called awardmod that supposedly allows you to modify any part of an award bios and was working on awardmod 2 before he passed away. i dont know a whole lot of how difficult it would be to rebuild a program and suit it for your needs or to replace a bios, but maybe that will help someone or spark someones brain into orverdrive...just a suggestion. 03-21-2005 10:05:07

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 2 times) Wild_Pencil Profile | Email Hold on a sec... you're Programmer's brother? Wow.. yes, I remember Programmer had published AwardMod on SourceForge many years ago. I'm so sorry to hear that he passed away. Programmer truly was an asset to the IOpener Hacking community, and his contributions have become a substantial foundation for the current "v5" enhanced BIOS. We couldn't possibly have gotten this far without his help. 03-21-2005 18:38:38

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) Wild_Pencil Profile | Email Forgot to mention.. from the pinouts provided, it sounds like you need an LVDS converter. Check out the "v6 IOpener" threads -- someone came across a prototype "v6" TFT IOpener, and it has a daughtercard that implements that hardware that's needed to drive that TFT. Still need to get a BIOS that activates TFT Mode in the chipset, though. I've had that project on the backburner for months -- I either need to unlock the v6's BIOS (and reimplement all patches to date), or I need to isolate the activation sequence and pull that back into the current v5 BIOS. Either way, it'd be a very time consuming process.. which is why it got shelved for a while.. 03-23-2005 17:53:44

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) CCRay Profile | Email Just curious as to whether anything has happened with this... Only took me about 2hrs. to read all the posts. (by the time I got to part III I was skipping ahead 10 or so posts at a time...) 04-16-2005 02:50:27

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) KneuB_2 Profile | Email jglh555 I am sorry to hear that programmer has passed on, he was an asset to more communities than this one. I recall having seen a write up on his awardmod program on Tom's Hardware a couple years back. My condolences. As far as getting the I-O to drive a TFT.... I think Wild_Pencil has summed it up pretty well. This board has gotten fairly thin as other toys to play with have come on the market, and this project is evidently a little bigger than Wild_Pencil wishes to bite off along. That is a shame really since this has always been the key to many other projects. But I can't say as I blame him, I for one put in many an hour following traces to nail down pinouts, and that was the easy part compared to digging through code. All I can say is visit here regularly as Wild_Pencil does not give up easily. He may take an extended break every now and then but he doesn't give up easily. Out of curiosity, what is the big project that you are trying to wrap up before going off to school? 04-18-2005 15:34:36

RE:TFT Screen, Part V (modified 0 times) semd78 Profile may day may day, pass trought this new. the User named Nick want to sell you all cracked programs. He really want only your cash. He want to defraud you all and steal your money. Stop him, pass this new 11-02-2005 01:32:17

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