playstation60 wrote:


I have a Compaq Presario 5000, and I am trying to find the wiring
diagrams for the motherboard that came with the system when it was
purchased. Somewhere during the shuffle of things the wires were pulled
off of the motherboard and now I need to reconnect them in order to turn
the blasted thing on again!

The numbers I was able to take off of the board a 0814072KA8 Uwave,
and 786K1

Any help will be most greatly appreciated.



Chance favors the prepared mind.

~Underseige 2~

Playstation60,

The CPU cooling pin, and USb connections should not be any trouble, the ones
that always give me a headache are the front panel pinout...

I just updated an older an older Compaq by placing it in larger case to
allow for better air movement, and discovered the front panel pin set up
was not as straight forward as I thought.

I used the webpage below, but the on/off or power switch in the new case did
not work... I ended up, removing the switch from the Compaq case, and
installing all the pins in the Compaq pillow block...

I tried the new case switch on another computer (ECS motherboard), and it
worked. I am not an electronic expert, but it appears that the power
switch in the Compaq must be different and not the same as a generic
momentary switch.

I did a small amount of case modification and used a glue gun to make the
original Compaq power switch fit firmly in the larger case... But this
transfer was accomplished with lots of tongue biting with my girl friend's
roommate present, but it is a working system... The new case also had two
wires instead of three for the Led light, and that works correctly per the
front panel pinout diagram...

front panel pinout 4 most compaq computers
www.angelfire.com/ex/kltsin/frontpin.html

Good Luck, I had to call upon a great amount of patience to make this simple
case transfer work... After changing the case I set about installing
windows 2000, and SimplyMepis a 32-bit Linux Distro creating a dual boot
system... Windows 2000 took a long time to install, with all the required
updates, but the Linux distro installed in about 30 minutes, including
setting up the HP printer...

JR the postman