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I think I hosed the mobo. (modified 1 times) choadle Profile I have scanned around to see if anyone else has experienced what I am now, and I dont see anything thats quite the same... I made a bunch of mods, and now all that I get when I plug in the power is a yellow power light. Nothing else. Nothing from the screen etc. I had the WP booting to win98, and then I tried to solder on a usb nic. It never worked, I think I had the pins wrong. Could I have toasted the mobo from this? I also rigged up a 5 V .15 A fan to a customized Geforce4 HS, and soldered that directly to the power jack underside. Can anyone tell me if there is a way to recover from this 'yellow power' void?? 11-17-2003 22:30:31

RE:I think I hosed the mobo. (modified 0 times) Impulseman Profile | Email Are you overclocking the WebPlayer? If so than you may need to try droping back to the original speed and see if the system comes back to life. I had this problem as well when trying to run the system at 266MHz. Going back down to 233MHz fixed that. Although that webpalyer has since bit the dust as well. Something happened to its video. So its now a parts machine. 11-18-2003 07:47:20

RE:I think I hosed the mobo. (modified 0 times) choadle Profile Impulse, thanks for the info. I am not overclocking... Last night, before going to sleep, I examined some of the grounding springs/tabs, and I saw that 2 of them were darkened on the tip. I think I got careless and set the powered mobo down and shorted something. Is the largish chip on the bottom (the big silver one) for video? If so, I think one of the grounding springs/tabs touched that chip. I suspect I am SOL. I have another WP, nice and new that I got from UBID waaay back. I want to solder on USB, and add cooling too. I found a 5 V .15 A fan that I am going to add to an old Ti4200 fan and mount onto the chip. Anything to beware of here? Can I hose the voltages by adding this fan, such that I destroy this unit too? J 11-18-2003 11:59:11

RE:I think I hosed the mobo. (modified 0 times) Impulseman Profile | Email Well that seems to be the same thing that I did. But the video on mine still works but it is only using about 50% of the screens pixels. This is across the whole WebPlayer so it really looks funky when windows boots on it. But it’s basically toast. I think if you use a fan with as little current draw as possible you can draw power from the extra serial connector on the board. You could also make your connection to the 5volt USB connector but since the USB is a little weak for some devices this might not be a good choice. Of course drawing power directly from the WebPlayer power connector would give the best result. If you are careful this should work. Just make sure the grounding tabs on the motherboard and on the ground plate in the case bottom have good clean contacts. If you are seeing any black on the leads you can use a pencil eraser and gently rub the contacts clean. This might even clear up your video problem. If its not getting a good ground throughout the board you could be loosing your video that way. I had this happen a couple of times. But I was really tweaking mine. I had it running at 233MHz with 256MB of RAM, a 20gig hd, mini pci eithernet/modem card and running Windows XP. My goal was to turn it into a gateway machine for internet sharing. Needless to say I am being very careful with my second WebPlayer. Unfortunately I sold off my mini pci card so I am going to have to use USB net adapters this time. Good luck. 11-19-2003 06:18:07

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