Recent content by jasperman

Thanks for the reply JDW. I believe evanboonie's start of a VRM replacement has the pinouts for the connector but need to reinstall Kicad to check.

Any suggestions for the best way to test an original VRM board? I have two replacements now for my “magic smoke” VRM I posted a bit ago. Should I look for shorts on the connector voltage pins in case there is a short on the motherboard? Or any way to test a board in isolation? I’d rather not...

A mystery! What adapter(s) are you using and what exact DVD drive did you replace it with?

My VRM in a second cube I have is pretty toasty. Some bad soldering reflow and C3 is blown. This was in a cube I just picked up and magic smoke appeared from somewhere when I plugged it in. Is there a guide to test these somehow or troubleshoot bad components? Or does someone rebuild these? I'm...

Yes. 9 in master and DVD in slave - DVD does not show up. 9 in slave and DVD in master - DVD does not show up. I verified that the master/slave pin on the 9 enclosure does change it's device ID in "More Info" but somehow blocks access to the DVD which is weird.

Do you have a suggestion that is known to work? My #8 item is a 2.5” IDE to MSATA enclosure so nearly the same as an IDE SSD I would think. And for some unexplained reason it blocks access to the DVD-ROM. i don’t believe there are any 3.5” IDE SSDs(???) so you will need a 3.5 to 2.5 adapter...

This is a pic of various hard drives and adapters I've tried with my cube over the past month or so. Here's a writeup I did for another site: I picked up G4 cube about a month ago with no hard drive. Here’s my saga for getting an SSD to fit in the limited space with the original cable and...