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On 06/06/2013, at 22:51, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> =
wrote:
> Alban Hertroys <haramrae@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
>> 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?
>=20
> Yes.  There are two different pinouts for motherboard serial headers.


You can probably reverse it yourself if you are careful though - open =
one end and lift the cable out, flip it over and crimp it back in a vice =
then trim the excess cable with a hobby knife.

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
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