Comments for Electronsmith.com http://blog.electronsmith.com Solving life's problems one very small step at a time Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:16:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on ASUS P5Q SE2 Serial Connector Pinout by tim g http://blog.electronsmith.com/?p=59&cpage=1#comment-3201 tim g Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:16:40 +0000 http://blog.electronsmith.com/?p=59#comment-3201 1 more this helped. I happened to have an adapter cable laying around, but it didn't work. was pinned 123... across instead of 135... as described above. rewired it, and works great! Thanks a bunch!!! -ASUS M4A79XTD EVO manual does not even have pinouts. 1 more this helped. I happened to have an adapter cable laying around, but it didn’t work. was pinned 123… across instead of 135… as described above. rewired it, and works great! Thanks a bunch!!! -ASUS M4A79XTD EVO manual does not even have pinouts.

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]]> Comment on Trying Vshnu: Impressions by benjamenjohnson http://blog.electronsmith.com/?p=7&cpage=1#comment-945 benjamenjohnson Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:02:17 +0000 http://electronsmith.com/wordpress/?p=7#comment-945 Unfortunately I don't have a copy anymore but a little searching turned this up: http://77.100.103.108/public/palmsoftware/irenhance/?C=M;O=A Unfortunately I don’t have a copy anymore but a little searching turned this up:

http://77.100.103.108/public/palmsoftware/irenhance/?C=M;O=A

]]> Comment on Trying Vshnu: Impressions by Alan Golding http://blog.electronsmith.com/?p=7&cpage=1#comment-944 Alan Golding Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:44:21 +0000 http://electronsmith.com/wordpress/?p=7#comment-944 Hi Benjamen From one of your posts in 2006 you seem to be one of the last possessors of the Visor Deluxe file SerIrCommLib.prc which is used to configure the pda for infrared work. Might you still have it? Because it has dropped off the Palm website and it would be great to get a copy from you. Rgds Alan Hi Benjamen
From one of your posts in 2006 you seem to be one of the last possessors of the Visor Deluxe file SerIrCommLib.prc which is used to configure the pda for infrared work.
Might you still have it? Because it has dropped off the Palm website and it would be great to get a copy from you.
Rgds Alan

]]> Comment on ASUS P5Q SE2 Serial Connector Pinout by benjamen http://blog.electronsmith.com/?p=59&cpage=1#comment-826 benjamen Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:54:50 +0000 http://blog.electronsmith.com/?p=59#comment-826 I shut down my computer and looked at the cable. The way it is wired pin one connects to the lower left. Andreas is right! Both my manual and the English manual on the ASUS website are incorrect. I'm going to update the post to show this information. It's worth noting that this is a serial port, so wiring it incorrectly probably won't hurt anything -- not like a USB port that also provides power. I shut down my computer and looked at the cable. The way it is wired pin one connects to the lower left. Andreas is right! Both my manual and the English manual on the ASUS website are incorrect.

I’m going to update the post to show this information.

It’s worth noting that this is a serial port, so wiring it incorrectly probably won’t hurt anything — not like a USB port that also provides power.

]]> Comment on ASUS P5Q SE2 Serial Connector Pinout by benjamen http://blog.electronsmith.com/?p=59&cpage=1#comment-822 benjamen Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:21:40 +0000 http://blog.electronsmith.com/?p=59#comment-822 I downloaded the manual from Asus: http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&model=P5Q%20SE2 It has the same pin-out as my manual does. Thinking about it, you'd think the key (missing) pin would be pin 10. I didn't notice that the PC Cables diagram has the pins labeled like your diagram too. I think you and PC cables have the right pin-out. Tell you what, I can't do it right now, but later today I'll shut my box down and tell you which pin is pin 1 on my cable. ------------ I've been burned by companies putting the wrong pin-out in the manual before. I can't remember the company, but the manual I had had the wrong pin-out for the USB ports and I blew them out. Only then did I go to the website to get the latest manual and find out they had corrected the pinout. I downloaded the manual from Asus:

http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&model=P5Q%20SE2

It has the same pin-out as my manual does. Thinking about it, you’d think the key (missing) pin would be pin 10. I didn’t notice that the PC Cables diagram has the pins labeled like your diagram too. I think you and PC cables have the right pin-out.

Tell you what, I can’t do it right now, but later today I’ll shut my box down and tell you which pin is pin 1 on my cable.

————

I’ve been burned by companies putting the wrong pin-out in the manual before. I can’t remember the company, but the manual I had had the wrong pin-out for the USB ports and I blew them out. Only then did I go to the website to get the latest manual and find out they had corrected the pinout.

]]> Comment on ASUS P5Q SE2 Serial Connector Pinout by Andreas http://blog.electronsmith.com/?p=59&cpage=1#comment-821 Andreas Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:56:32 +0000 http://blog.electronsmith.com/?p=59#comment-821 I just had a look at the manual on page 2-29 (hope you got the same manual in the US like I have it here in Germany). In the Image you can see "PIN 1" at the lower left. And the connector on the mainboard has a gap on the lower side of the frame. Looking at the picture on http://www.pccables.com/07120.htm you can see the "nose" that fits in that gap on TOP of the IDC plug and pin 1 at the upper left. |--"--| |13579| |2468X| |-----| So I still think that the connector on the mainboard is just turned upside down: |-----| |2468X| |13579| |-- --| I just had a look at the manual on page 2-29 (hope you got the same manual in the US like I have it here in Germany). In the Image you can see “PIN 1″ at the lower left. And the connector on the mainboard has a gap on the lower side of the frame.

Looking at the picture on http://www.pccables.com/07120.htm you can see the “nose” that fits in that gap on TOP of the IDC plug and pin 1 at the upper left.

|–”–|
|13579|
|2468X|
|—–|

So I still think that the connector on the mainboard is just turned upside down:

|—–|
|2468X|
|13579|
|– –|

]]> Comment on ASUS P5Q SE2 Serial Connector Pinout by benjamen http://blog.electronsmith.com/?p=59&cpage=1#comment-820 benjamen Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:25:26 +0000 http://blog.electronsmith.com/?p=59#comment-820 Looking at the manual the pin-out for the serial port is: _______ |1357X| |24680| ------- Looking at that, the pin-out in the post connects pin 9 to pin 9 which looks to actually be a no connect. But all this is immaterial if you use a IDC plug with a 10 pin ribbon cable. If you don't have one and are wiring with individual wires take a look at how the pins are connected on an IDE or FDD cable. All that really matters is that you connect pin one - the red marked wire to pin 1 of the DB-9 and take your pin count from the ribbon cable. It all should work itself out. Looking at the manual the pin-out for the serial port is:
_______
|1357X|
|24680|
——-

Looking at that, the pin-out in the post connects pin 9 to pin 9 which looks to actually be a no connect.

But all this is immaterial if you use a IDC plug with a 10 pin ribbon cable. If you don’t have one and are wiring with individual wires take a look at how the pins are connected on an IDE or FDD cable. All that really matters is that you connect pin one – the red marked wire to pin 1 of the DB-9 and take your pin count from the ribbon cable. It all should work itself out.

]]> Comment on ASUS P5Q SE2 Serial Connector Pinout by Andreas http://blog.electronsmith.com/?p=59&cpage=1#comment-819 Andreas Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:32:00 +0000 http://blog.electronsmith.com/?p=59#comment-819 Wait, wait, wait! Is the IDC-connector on the P5Q upside down?? I have 4 pins in the upper row and 5 in the lower row. Is it ------- |2468 | |13579| ------- ??? Wait, wait, wait! Is the IDC-connector on the P5Q upside down??

I have 4 pins in the upper row and 5 in the lower row.

Is it

——-
|2468 |
|13579|
——-

???

]]> Comment on ASUS P5Q SE2 Serial Connector Pinout by Andreas http://blog.electronsmith.com/?p=59&cpage=1#comment-818 Andreas Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:22:07 +0000 http://blog.electronsmith.com/?p=59#comment-818 And here's the 3rd one! And here’s the 3rd one!

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