The flat blade always works one way or another. The risk is always that the
wrong pair of pins gets shorted and the motherboard gets completely hosed.
That's why I tend to favor annotated images of boards, diagrams, tables and
charts in manufacturer documents. You see, I have this inbred phobia about
burning out motherboards, especially when they belong to someone else on my
repair bench. And yes, I get computers for service all the time to clean up
the mess the owner made by disconnecting all the wires. I also see all kinds
of stray motherboards here... Ben Myers
On 24 Jul 2006 13:51:49 -0700, "" <> wrote:
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>Ben Myers wrote:
>> To answer my own question, after searching for "Evo 310" manuals on the HP web
>> site, I downloaded the "product manual" for the Evo 310, c00283275.pdf. The
>> front panel is shown in a picture. I used Adobe Acrobat to view the document,
>> of course, and blew it up to 400% of actual size. Then I captured the screen
>> showning the blown up image of the front panel connectors, with a legend that
>> shows the use of the important wire pairs.
>>
>> Gee, I'm glad HP makes this sort of thing ever so easy... Ben Myers
>
>I've always been fond of the flat blade screwdriver method of finding
>the power and reset pins.