Originally posted by Topcat
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The other unfortunate news is that I don't have a stand-alone backplane like I thought.
The good news, however, is that I found a -complete- lane controller in my deep storage area (space under the stairs only accessible from the utility room after moving the washer - yes, I'm such a pack rat, I leave no empty space uninhabited by computer stuff ) after rummaging through many of the boxes of stuff that I had saved from that place's dumpster.
So basically, I found the backplane, SBC, and even accompanying connectors/cables. Was messing with the thing for a bit in the last two days and finally got it to POST. Turns out that backplane wasn't quite 100% plug-n-play with the SBC. A special connector was needed between the SBC and backplane so that PS-ON and PG signals could get properly sent to the PSU (and get 5VSB from PSU to mobo.) I figured out the PS-ON and 5VSB easily with a multimeter and from an old picture I took last year when breaking the whole thing down. But it was the PG that I didn't have connected, which is what held the system from POSTing. But once I got it figured all out, it posted fine.
Anyways, long story short, I put Windows 7 on a test HDD so I could check functionality and stability. All passed. SBC is an LBC9316 socket 775 board with 2x DDR2 RAM slots, and Q965 chipset. This is the page with the specs for it, I think:
http://www.voxtechnologies.com/embed...ct-pci/lbc9316
Basically, it has 2x onboard Gigabit RJ-45 LAN connectors, 2x USB 2.0, and VGA. I also found the expansion brackets for PS/2 K&M, Parallel + Serial, and internal floppy cable (I think!) There are a few more jumpers on the SBC, which I guess are for other stuff, like more USB and HD(?) Audio (at least that's what I assume one of them is for, since Windows 7 did pickup an HD Audio device, and there is a Realtek ALC audio chip of some sort on the board.) CPU is a Pentium 4 651 CPU (Cedar Mill). Not the fastest thing, but it works OK and doesn't actually heat up too much.
Anyways, have a look at the pics and let me know if this is something that will work for your project.
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