On Mon Aug 8 21:25:17 BST 2016, Christopher Havel wrote:
@ David -- by my eyes, that actually looks to be an incredibly nice, clean, and tidy production. I have a spare motherboard (ignoring busted audio jack and one questionable USB port) for my trusty ASUS 1000HE netbook. I was thinking of desktopping it until I saw just what a mess it would be simply hooking up a power button... the power button PCB connects to the motherboard with a tiny flat flex cable (FFC -- the little white fiddly cables in laptops that like to tear) and the pin pitch is frightening, at best... never mind rigging in a new cooling solution, since the original "heatsink" is the keyboard underlay! And so on.
I think I may have been a bit harsh on the old beast. Samsung did a pretty good job of integrating everything on the motherboard. It's just a shame that they had to include everything except the kitchen sink. It's not like I have to deal with multiple boards strung together with cables. The board, once extracted, is self-contained.
May I ask how you handled that very issue (power button) yourself? Is video out automatically handled by BIOS or did you have to twiddle something...? Is it still hooked to the old battery? etc.
The power button is a simple push button at the top-right of the motherboard. The top part of the board was covered by a panel with a grille that sat on top of the fans and plastic covers for each of the buttons (Internet, e-mail, user and power). Video out is handled by the BIOS. I haven't connected the battery - the board doesn't seem to need it. I also left out the CD/DVD drive because I think it no longer works. Oh, and the speaker outputs aren't connected to anything. I think I unplugged the soft-modem at some point in the distant past.
You can email me off-list if Luke gets ornery ;) but I'm rather curious as to the full implementation and all.
I'll risk it for now. ;-)
Really, what you see in the pictures is all there was to it, unless you want to see pictures of the inside of the case. The only thing I added was the black CompactFlash adapter that plugs into the IDE slot. Feel free to ask me more questions privately if you want.
David