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From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
Subject: Re: Serial terminal issues
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 13:21:34 +0000 (UTC)
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Alban Hertroys <haramrae@gmail.com> wrote:

> The new system has a Gigabyte GA970A-UD3 board with just a serial header
> on the board. I bought a serial connector backplate in an electronics
> store and connected it to the board. Could the pinout be different or
> something?

Yes.  There are two different pinouts for motherboard serial headers.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de