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Reply 20 of 21, by justin1985

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Hot glue on the small inductor did seem to make an appreciable difference 😀

Now I've got it all together, and it is working beautifully! It took a few rounds of changes to BIOS Power Management settings to get the Power button working as expected (one combination of sensible-sounding settings resulted in the power button turning off the CPU fan, but leaving the system running!)

It's currently booting from a CF card adapter wrapped in Kapton tape and just tucked in place, but I'm tempted to try removing the modem daughter board and fitting the card adapter onto an improvised bracket there. Perhaps cutting out an opening in the rear of the case to give it an easy way to swap disks/ load files?

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justin1985 wrote on 2024-07-28, 13:33:

It took a few rounds of changes to BIOS Power Management settings to get the Power button working as expected (one combination of sensible-sounding settings resulted in the power button turning off the CPU fan, but leaving the system running!)

When I got mine running last year I had the opposite problem - the fan wouldn't stop running after power off. I assumed it was a side effect of powering it off a PicoPSU with its own power switch.

justin1985 wrote on 2024-07-28, 13:33:

Perhaps cutting out an opening in the rear of the case to give it an easy way to swap disks/ load files?

I think the system desperately needs an extraction fan. Tightly packed as it is, I found it got very warm very quickly (some of that was due to installing an HDD). As I don't have the original PSU, I was planning to create a bracket to mount a fan in that space along with the power jack and switch. I didn't want to bring it back to life just to cook it to death.

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