CelGen wrote:133MHz wrote:Today I unearthed this beauty of a system amongst a pile of boring Pentium 4 boxes at my usual flea market:
-Everex 386-
You bum! I've been looking for one of those for years. The last one I came across had the mobo switched out and that made the front display inoperable. I got the matching ISA cards and external QIC tape drive that matches up with the machine.
When I opened it up the first time I noticed that the front display cable was unplugged from the motherboard. My OCD wanted to make me plug it back in but I noticed that the connector on the motherboard had no indication of which way around pin 1 is, so I left it alone for the time being. Later when cleaning it up I also noticed some sort of cloudy spot inside the display assembly, so I believe it's possible that some previous owner blew up the display by connecting it backwards. 🙁
I'm afraid to try it without being absolutely sure. I really hope that cloudiness is just dirt and not from a blown component.
The Asus Q-Connector thing is a good idea in principle, but IME it tends to come loose and erratically disable your front panel. Had to troubleshoot a couple of machines where this was the culprit of no power, no lights, etc. Hot-gluing it down would totally defeat the purpose. 😵