UtterDisbelief
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Update 2
One crazy aspect of the MetallicGear Neo Mini v2.0 case I used is that there is no reset button and no cable or hole for one. Aside from the power button on the top the only other button is for cycling through the the built-in RGB LEDs behind the front panel, and that's down next to the front USB ports. A weird design choice.
So I set about making my own.
As I'm using an eSATA backplate to allow me to boot other drives if I want to, I decided to drill a hole in this to accept a small momentary push-button, here under the Graphics Card Display port:
Then I bought a packet of front-panel extension cables. As luck would have it the distance between the two pins on the end of the cables was much the same as the distance between pins on the switch, so soldering was an easy job. To neaten things up I used heat-shrink to disguise the join. The white braiding matches my internal SATA cables too, maintaining the theme.
The switch was from an electronics store - 7mm diameter hole needed. The cables from Shakmods, an online (and ebay) seller of many useful braided cables.
Finished heat-shrink:
I have already bought a round cable eSATA back-plate, which will look better as it is also black, but not yet done the drilling again. Later.
Once plugged into the motherboard front-panel header, all works as hoped and now all those tests I get wrong can be escaped from using this button rather than the power switch.
One crazy aspect of the MetallicGear Neo Mini v2.0 case I used is that there is no reset button and no cable or hole for one. Aside from the power button on the top the only other button is for cycling through the the built-in RGB LEDs behind the front panel, and that's down next to the front USB ports. A weird design choice.
So I set about making my own.
As I'm using an eSATA backplate to allow me to boot other drives if I want to, I decided to drill a hole in this to accept a small momentary push-button, here under the Graphics Card Display port:
Then I bought a packet of front-panel extension cables. As luck would have it the distance between the two pins on the end of the cables was much the same as the distance between pins on the switch, so soldering was an easy job. To neaten things up I used heat-shrink to disguise the join. The white braiding matches my internal SATA cables too, maintaining the theme.
The switch was from an electronics store - 7mm diameter hole needed. The cables from Shakmods, an online (and ebay) seller of many useful braided cables.
Finished heat-shrink:
Once plugged into the motherboard front-panel header, all works as hoped and now all those tests I get wrong can be escaped from using this button rather than the power switch.
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