First post, by DaCiRO
Hi,
I am restoring a old computer, came in a very nice case with a rather complicated Front LED display that seems to be run by two dip switches of 8 positions each,...but this I will talk abut more later as my primary headache now is with the TURBO cables. Hoping to get some guidance if anyone has ever seen something like this.
THE TURBO CABLES
From the TURBO BUTTON (the one in the Left) there are 3 cables coming out, 2 brown and 1 black. In the picture you can see them soldered to the back of the TURBO BUTTON (TURBO SWITCH)
these connect directly to a panel right at the back of the LED display, out of which also 2 TURBO brown cables come out supposedly to be connected to the motherboard, as well as a red cable that comes out that is actually the TURBO LED connection for the motherboard. (no idea what happened to the Black cable that comes out of the TURBO BUTTON, not sure if it is coming out somewhere to the motherboard).
In the picture you cannot tell the difference of what cables come in from the TURBO BUTTON an out to the Motherboard, you can only see them lined up together in the same connector, so I am explaining more in detail below:
From the cables coming out of the back of LED display there are
* One RED cable labeled TURBO LED +- : This cables ends up in a 2PIN headed and has only one red cable (I always though this was supposed to be a 2 cables)
* Two BROWN cables labeled as TURBO +- : These two cables are identical, both ends up in a 2PIN headed with only one brown cable each.
I believe that the two TURBO +- cables with brown wires are somehow the TURBO SWITCH (??), however I am not sure and I have never heard of this before, normally the TURBO SWITCH would be 1 cable only with 3 wires. Any idea on how to connect this to a motherboard with a 2 pin TURBO SWITCH connector?
THE DIP SWITCHES for the MHz LED DISPLAY
I have been messing with this and I can verify that using different ON OFF combinations they change the MHz LED display values (33, 08, 22, 32, 76, 88,..you name it), but no idea what the preset combinations are.
Has any one ever seen something like this and knows the ON OFF combination logic to set the values?
For reference: More pictures of the actual LED display, With and Without the front plastic cover