Gregory's ServerTHE PINOUT IS FOR THE POWER CABLE
NOT THE POWER CONNECTOR ON THE LAPTOP
meaning:
1. it's mirrored
2. I may have just reverse-volted it and let the magic smoke out
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Pulled everything out. It's a small computer! This is everything but the keyboard, hard drive, floppy drive, and screen. apparently instead of having a "POWER GOOD" pin like ATX PSUs do, they went for the opposite, where they have a pin that tells you if the power is sus *amongus noise* someday when I have money again I'm getting me an inspection microscope with HDMI out so I can do better close-up pictures of these things. Do they make smelloscopes? wait ZOOM, ENHANCE! I don't think it's supposed to look like that (Amusingly, I'm listening to Well There's Your Problem in another tab) the question is: what the fuck is this thing? the label has been sadly... exploded. I think it's either a MOSFET or a very small voltage regulator?       @foone I came here to ask if anywhere it specified which view that pin out was 😅  @foone This is why I usually connect ground to the shield of a DB connector. Still not foolproof |
yeah, I borrowed someone who has... nosmia? Whatever the term for "has a sense of smell" is. It's got Magic Smoke Stank now.