[PLUG] Connecting UPS to desktop

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Mon Nov 25 17:58:39 UTC 2019


On Mon, 25 Nov 2019, Galen Seitz wrote:

> *If* you were to do this, one of the lowest bandwidth slots would be the
> one to use. That would be any of the three PCIe 2.0 x1 slots.

Galen,

Okay. I'm now reading about PCIe to understand the technology.

> That said, if you really have square pins on the motherboard for a serial
> port, that's the best choice. Free Geek might have the appropriate ribbon
> cable to DB9 with backplate. If not, I may have what you need. Beware,
> though, that there are two common pinouts. You should confirm that the
> square pins are present and what the pinout is.

Tomorrow I'm shutting down the system and replacing the video card and CPU
cooler. I'll check the serial port then.

Thanks,

Rich



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