First post, by leonardo
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I recently came upon a junker on the way to the graveyard and decided to look into what it was and if I could give it a new life as someone's retro-hobby.
The mystery rig would not POST, but the motherboard had both AT- and ATX-power cable sockets so I plugged it into a spare PSU I had lying around to discover this is in fact an ASUS TXP4 motherboard with a AMD K6-II 400 MHz CPU, and that it appears to be functioning.
The system has been looted for pretty much everything and even the port connectors for the rear are gone, meaning I can only plug in an AT-style keyboard directly. Everything else (COM-, Parallel-, PS/2, etc.) is just gone. I much prefer these things to be directly attached to the mobo, but what can you do.
Looking through the manual I've discovered the connector-types and pin-assignments (see below for outtakes), but wanted to ask if some of you other hobbyists know how common these parts are (were these shared across different motherboards of the era, or even between ASUS boards, or am I looking for some proprietary unicorn parts that cannot be substituted with replacements very easily)?
I tried looking online but came back with a bunch of connectors that seem to all have differing headers or cables that attach to the motherboard.
All my retro-gear has its ports firmly attached to the board so this is a somewhat alien scenario for me.
edit: I would just like to add that I don't need all of these, but PS/2- or a COM-port for a mouse is pretty much a must if this thing is going to be useful to anyone.
[Install Win95 like you were born in 1985!] on systems like this or this.