Old Thrashbarg wrote:Compaq, OTOH, has been doing weird crap for about as long as I can remember. Some of their stuff was fairly standard, but they also had just as much that wasn't.
Back in 1997, a friend of mine got a behemoth Compaq 486 with lots of SCSI drives for free (the PSU was dead). He wanted to turn it into a Linux home server, bought a new standard AT PSU, mounted it, turned the machine on, and BANG! - the whole thing was fried. He called me over to find out what happened and to look for salvageable parts.
Compaq, in their sneaky ways, had used the standard AT connectors on the PSU and mainboard, but they swapped the +12V and -12V positions. The funny thing was, they swapped the cable colors as well! The +12V cables were blue (instead of yellow), even on the molex connectors, while the -12V cable was yellow (instead of blue).
Old Thrashbarg wrote:That's the "Garcia" board. I have the "Hendrix" board, which is an i810-based board. (They appearently named the boards after '60s musicians.)
My Compaq 386sx board was called Road Runner (after the cartoon character/adversary of Wile E. Coyote). There even was a little drawing of the Road Runner silkscreened onto the board. The name was not very fitting however, as this was one of the slowest machines in Compaq's lineup at the time.
sliderider wrote:After some research it seems my board uses 2 6 pin connectors on P8 and P9. All I have to figure out now is which goes on the first 6 pins and which goes on the last 6.
The only important thing is to orient the cables so that the black wires are in the center (like shown in the photo). Then there is only one way to connect them to the board, they won't fit in the wrong direction.