Moving my Dell into an Aspire X-Navigator

fatenabu1 · TweakNOOB Joined: 01 Dec 2004 Posts: 2

Hello,
I was told to start a new topic so here it goes. I have moved my Dell motherboard and such into a new case as my topic suggest. The only problem we are having is hooking up the jumpers on to the board. Unlike most mother boards the jumpers on my Dell motherboard are on my front USB I/O board near my head phone jack. I have an actual ribbon running from my LED lights/power/reset switches and such to my Jumper area. It is a normal jumper area, it is just not labled. I can get my new case to work if anyone knew the labeling of the jumpers or if it mattered what I plugged into where. I have a Dimension 8200 P4 2.0, the power supply is ATX btw. They just put the jumpers in a strange place. Thanks for your time guys if you have any reply send me and email or post. My email is fatenabu1@hotmail.com ( I am more likely to see the email)

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Sally · UberTweaker Joined: 31 Mar 2004 Posts: 1158 Location: WA

The first question I would ask would be "why????"

The second comment I would make would be to just get a different board...b/c you need it.

Ok, enough being a wise ass. If it is a ribbon as you say, then life sorta sucks. I don't think that Satan uses standardized color schemes. Honestly, I would say that you need to follow the ribbons conductor by conductor and figure out which are LED's and which are buttons and so on. Goodluck!
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Sally · UberTweaker Joined: 31 Mar 2004 Posts: 1158 Location: WA

ooo, also DO NO CUT AND SOLDER.....you don't have to!

As long as the conductors are lined up across from e/o, you may be able to get away using the case's connectors next to e/o. Also, if the wires connect @ the top of the connector as opposed to the front (perpendicular to the pins that they connect to) then you can actually disassemble the plug. Each wire and the metal conductor from inside the plug is modular and standard (IF Satan decided to do his that way too). You should be able to remove the conductors and arrange them in the correct manner in the plug from the DELL. Confused? PM me.
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JayDubya · Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 2:29 am Post subject:

I think the best bet would be trying to find the motherboard maker and model. Try to find a series of letters and numbers between the pci slots. From there, we might be able to find a motherboard manual that shows just where each jumper should go.
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Ham_fisT · Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 2:34 am Post subject:

I tried that with mine,, sally (I did this about 6 months ago), the pins on the board were WAY smaller, and too close together so taking apart the connectors from the new case was out of the question
but, mine didn't use a ribon connector, either

fatenabu1, is there any way you can post pictures of the cable / pins in question?
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JayDubya · Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 2:41 am Post subject:

I had a similar problem with a compaq case and a chaintech mobo. I just shorted two pins until the computer started up. Hacked out the switch and hooked it up. None of the led's or reset switch work. The USB jumpers, fortunately, were the same.
Any which way, there might be some hacking to do. If you find the motherboard model, that should help out alot.
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meobius · Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 8:05 am Post subject:

what are you doing for powersupply?
i know dell often uses proprietary powersupplies, and some times, they reverse the pinout on the 20pin atx connector

often with dell, you have to change, board case and psu at the same time.
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Hoedizzy · Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 7:22 pm Post subject:

As Sally has metioned....Dell = Satan...enough said.

chef · TweakNOOB Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 187

Opps, fatenabu1 I posted a reply to the other thread concerning your question. Basically I went through this and found it to we WAY to much of a headache to transfer everything. I just built a new comp, slowly though.

Xal · Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 4:38 am Post subject:

Dell =

Disgusting
Expensive
Lame
Long-outdated

Not worth the effort transferring it. But hey if its all you got what else can you do? Good luck dude. Maybe the mobo manual will have the pinouts for ya.
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