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The drive could be powered by the system's power supply instead of drawing off the card. It could just have the ide port on the board, and run a cable to wherever you mount the drive (such as the 5 1/4" bay). You could boot from the drive, and run most everything off the cf, since the system sees it as a drive. That is if I'm understanding everything.
Hi All,
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at present the power for the CF card is fed from the same 5v rail as the CPU. If using a HDD it should take its power from another rail (like the floppy 4 pin header)Quote:
Originally Posted by Muaddib67
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payment made.
Cheers Brian, payment sent :thumbsup:
kipper2k Please add me to the waiting list.
Received!!!!! :arms:
I can't test it until friday :picard
I sent you a PM and E-mail for two A500 board with 8MB of RAM and IDE.
Could you add me to the list?
Hi All...
I finally got a chance to unpack my A2000 and test it out. It's the first time i ever touched one. there were a few boards in there so i had to remove them, one was a 3.5" HDD board and the other was expansion ram, I never give them a chance to see if they worked, i just removed them.
The A2000 itself is a Rev 6.2 board with KS3.1 already in it. I had to check out the A2000 schematics to find oyt the options for connecting the 2 wires from the board and as it happens i got very lucky. (You'll see further down).
Ok, lets show some pictures.
First off, an angled view of the 8mb board in place, wires going to motherboard
http://www.kipper2k.com/a2000/install02.jpg
Next view is a picture of the board showing the LED cable (Red/Black) that utilizes the A2000's LED. I removed the solder blob from the fastmem board, put in the 2 pin header and away it went :).
Notice that the Int2 and OVR wire on the fastmem board is actually plugged into the header at the top of the board instead of where it normally is. I added a second header just in case. and it is serendipitous (look it up :).
http://www.kipper2k.com/a2000/install04.jpg
Angled view of board in place
http://www.kipper2k.com/a2000/install05.jpg
Here is how i connected the 2 wires to the motherboard. Using the schematic i found that both required connections are available on the motherboard risers so no soldering to the motherboard required...
http://www.kipper2k.com/a2000/install08.jpg
Here is how i done it, i sacrificed a video hybrid board by cutting off a small piece so i could make use of the pads...
http://www.kipper2k.com/a2000/install09.jpg
I then soldered the 2 wires to the cut off part and then pushed it into the CN600 header... Pins 17 and 19 on the header are next to each other on the riser so i could simply push in my cutoff board at pins 17 (OVR) and 19 (Int2). A little bit of hot glue to make it semi permanent and all set.
Notice that the PSU and drive cage is back in place and there is clear space. 2 sets of risers were used for the board to clear the motherboard components
http://www.kipper2k.com/a2000/install11.jpg
Peekaboo, showing the board below the drive cage
http://www.kipper2k.com/a2000/install12.jpg
And finally... the boot up :)
http://www.kipper2k.com/a2000/install13.jpg
Sysinfo reported...
http://www.kipper2k.com/a2000/install14.jpg
I just looked up from typing and the cat was sitting on the motherboard while it was turned on... Anyone want a cat, damn thing is in heat too, she won't stop coo'ing
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Originally Posted by awmosoft
Hi I did add you :) just never replied sorry.
Do you think a MegaChip expansion will still fit? Hard to see on the pictures if it would or not :)