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  • Lenovo TS140 Tower Front Panel Pinout

    From Jeff Gaines@3:633/10 to All on Wednesday, May 20, 2026 10:59:50

    Google AI has assured me the Lenovo TS140 has a proprietary 10 pin, 14 pin
    and 16 pin header for the front panel connectors.

    Having counted the pins several times I have 12, 2 rows of six. I do have
    a connector with tails on its way from China but it would be good to get
    the connectors correct while it transits Hormuz.

    Anybody re-cased a TS140 and who actually knows the pinout please?

    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    640k ought to be enough for anyone.
    (Bill Gates, 1981)

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.14
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Jeff Gaines@3:633/10 to All on Wednesday, May 20, 2026 18:14:36
    On 20/05/2026 in message <n767shFemq8U1@mid.individual.net> Andy Burns
    wrote:

    Jeff Gaines wrote:

    Google AI has assured me the Lenovo TS140 has a proprietary 10 pin, 14 >>pin and 16 pin header for the front panel connectors.

    Having counted the pins several times I have 12, 2 rows of six. I do have >>a connector with tails on its way from China but it would be good to get >>the connectors correct while it transits Hormuz.

    Anybody re-cased a TS140 and who actually knows the pinout please?
    I looked at the PDF versions of the User Guide, the Platform Specification >and the Hardware Maintenance Manual for the TS140, and searched on the two >FRU numbers of motherboards that can be fitted, none of them mentioned >pinouts.

    That sounds like prime circumstances for AI to make shit up ...

    Absolutely, I think it did!

    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    Are you confused about gender?
    Try milking a bull, you'll learn real quick.

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.14
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Chris@3:633/10 to All on Friday, May 22, 2026 06:06:35
    Jeff Gaines <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:

    Google AI has assured me the Lenovo TS140 has a proprietary 10 pin, 14 pin and 16 pin header for the front panel connectors.

    Having counted the pins several times I have 12, 2 rows of six. I do have
    a connector with tails on its way from China but it would be good to get
    the connectors correct while it transits Hormuz.

    If a ship from China is going via Hormuz, it's lost.

    Anybody re-cased a TS140 and who actually knows the pinout please?





    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.14
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Jeff Gaines@3:633/10 to All on Friday, May 22, 2026 07:46:14
    On 22/05/2026 in message <10uorpb$19a8r$1@dont-email.me> Chris wrote:

    Jeff Gaines <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:

    Google AI has assured me the Lenovo TS140 has a proprietary 10 pin, 14 pin >>and 16 pin header for the front panel connectors.

    Having counted the pins several times I have 12, 2 rows of six. I do have
    a connector with tails on its way from China but it would be good to get >>the connectors correct while it transits Hormuz.

    If a ship from China is going via Hormuz, it's lost.

    They put in on a plane :-)

    It cleared customs yesterday and is at a sort facility in Braintree.

    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists
    or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.14
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Chris@3:633/10 to All on Friday, May 22, 2026 10:07:03
    Jeff Gaines <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:
    On 22/05/2026 in message <10uorpb$19a8r$1@dont-email.me> Chris wrote:

    Jeff Gaines <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:

    Google AI has assured me the Lenovo TS140 has a proprietary 10 pin, 14 pin >>> and 16 pin header for the front panel connectors.

    Having counted the pins several times I have 12, 2 rows of six. I do have >>> a connector with tails on its way from China but it would be good to get >>> the connectors correct while it transits Hormuz.

    If a ship from China is going via Hormuz, it's lost.

    They put in on a plane :-)

    Even better.

    It cleared customs yesterday and is at a sort facility in Braintree.

    Excellent.




    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.14
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Jeff Gaines@3:633/10 to All on Saturday, May 23, 2026 14:22:46
    On 20/05/2026 in message <xn0pq00ag9t04l200h@news.individual.net> Jeff
    Gaines wrote:


    Google AI has assured me the Lenovo TS140 has a proprietary 10 pin, 14 pin >and 16 pin header for the front panel connectors.

    Having counted the pins several times I have 12, 2 rows of six. I do have
    a connector with tails on its way from China but it would be good to get
    the connectors correct while it transits Hormuz.

    Anybody re-cased a TS140 and who actually knows the pinout please?

    Found a diagram and can confirm it works:

    https://forumscdn.lenovo.com/old_attach/131461iB2D1C9EA6A53CB5D.jpg

    Doesn't cover the reset switch but not sure anybody uses that since DOS.

    Wanted to get this on record in case anybody else wants to re-case a
    Lenovo TS140.

    The converter from China seems to follow this but I'm struggling to get it working.

    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    I've been through the desert on a horse with no name.
    It was a right bugger to get him back when he ran off.

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.14
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)