[ILUG] looking for an cable - anyone know where i can get one?

[Christian van den Bosch]

Simon Kenyon wrote:
> i have a new motherboard with the serial ports on the motherboard as little 9 
> pin headers. anyone know where i can buy a cable so that i can feed that out 
> through a pci-slot plate?

Any of the usual suspects - Maplin, CPC et al - should have what you 
need. However, watch out for pinout issues; the 0.1" square-grid header 
that's presumably what's on your motherboard is numbered like this:

1 3 5 7 9
2 4 6 8 X

(where X is 10 if present) whereas the 9-pin D is numbered like this:

1 2 3 4 5
  6 7 8 9

- and there are two main schools of thought in the motherboard serial 
header pinout world: some motherboard serial header cables (and the 
headers to plug them into) are wired numerically (1-1, 2-2 etc); others 
are wired so that the cable is easier to manufacture (1-1, 2-6, 3-2, 4-7 
etc). If you have a multimeter you can work out which you have, by 
checking which pin on the header is connected to ground. This will want 
to be pin 5 on the D connector.

> please don't tell me i got the wrong motherboard - i didn't
> this is an aopen i915GMm-HFS - which is absolutely amazing

You may also find the motherboard manual tells you the pinout you need.

If all else fails, I can probably bodge something up.

Christian / cjb

http://www.cjb.ie/