Thanks for using my affiliate code, as I told you via PM, the cooler will be in the mail tomorrow.

Should be in and out at customs, I'll mark it as a gift with no value, they don't care, works like a charm.

Haven't had a prob yet, I sent some older cards to Goldleader in the Netherlands, he told me customs there were ridiculous, but the cards zipped right through.

Okay, I'll be firing it out in about an hour or so, like I said, I'll PM you a copy of the receipt. Couple pics here to show you the diff between the CO cooler and the GT. Yeah, the CO cooler doesn't actually say "CO", but the diff is obvious.
 
Those are the original thermal pads for the RAM, you should probably change them, I didn't, I knew my VF-900 was coming so I just slapped some AS5 on them until it got here. BTW, the GT cooler was "slightly modified" to fit my wife's old 6600GT, but she didn't like the "noise".
 
They changed the fan location on the CO so they could cover the RAM.
 

 

Okay, it's on the way, I'll PM you a copy of the receipt, let me know when you get the cooler.

Hi all,

The latest info, found out, in regard to using the 7600GT in my T5730 ThinClient.

It turns out HP didn't use standard wiring pin-outs for their PCIe 16x slot.

I found this out when trying to use the PCIe 16x extender, flex-cable riser adapter I purchased.

I thought the new riser was defective, making the system stop booting, and stopping the drive from spinning, but, after the really great company selling it sent another one for free to try, (even one more expensive, made better) it still didn't work.

This puzzled me, so I compared the pins on the standard PCIe 16x to this new riser, and the riser HP gives with their PCI expansion Kit, for taking their PCIe slot and making a PCI 32 sot.

That's when I noticed the ground pins didn't match-up to the PCIe standard pin-outs.
That means signal lines were also in the wrong place. Lucky me the mobo didn't fry.

DELL did a similar thing with the power connector on one of their motherboards.
If you didn't use their power supply, any other PSU would fry your motherboard.

The company selling the standard PCIe 16x riser extender, with the correctly designed pin-outs, was nice enough to put-up with my perceived problem with their product, without question.

You may want to see what they sell. You can't do wrong dealing with them, and I found out they have a rating of 100% perfect on those online rating sites.

No surprise, seeing how they treated this issue.
they're at ... MicroSATAcables .com
(remember to remove the space in that URL address)

They sell more than these adapters.

Anyway, all the other mods done work perfectly...

The new replaced CPU (2.4GHz Turion 64 X2 Dual-Core, TMDTL68HAX5DM)
Installing the new 192watt 16 Amp 12vdc PSU (I have pictures of this mod)
The 320 GB 2.5 inch Hard Drive (using the new F to F 44-pin cable)

Soon to be installed second RAM memory socket in the space opened for it on the board pattern.

So, ... if anyone has the schematic for this T5730 Thin Client, I'd like to see it's wiring on the PCIe 16x slot, I may try making a riser card for it to attempt the installation of the 7600GT again... It should work if the pins go to where they're supposed to go on the card.

:-)

And I do have the ability to make circuit board designs, so it's not a dream. :-)

Hi dhemke,

If you're referring to the EU054AA riser, it may not actually work with my PCIe slot.
The mobo that goes into may actually have a PCIe slot wired to the correct standards.

It looks like they're saying it goes into another model HP computer ...
HP Compaq dc7700

I did a google search for that EU054AA part and came up with this site selling it for $90

www .serversupply. com/HP-COMPAQ/ACCESSORIES/RISER%20CARD/Desktop/EU054AA.htm

(remember to remove the spaces in the URL ... I can't wait until I can post links without doing this)

All I'd need to make my own riser card adapter, is the pinouts of the T5730 PCIe 16x slot, to compare to a standard PCIe 16x slot.

Nice find though ... :-) ...
During my search, I found this same thing selling at "memory 4 less" for $224 ... Yeah ... :-) memory for less huh? Ha ha !

www .memory4less. com/m4l_itemdetail.aspx?itemid=27335803&partno=EU054AA

When I received the T5730 system, and the PCI Expansion Kit, the kit came with a PCIe x1 riser card, in addition to a PCIe to PCI 32 riser, ... I have that one, but I can't find where I put the other one.

Not that I'd be able to use it with the 7600GT , but I may have gotten an idea of the custom HP wiring on their PCIe slot for the T5730 mobo.

I'm still looking around the house for it ...

Hey Dave, that does sound better.

Yeah, HP is of no help. I wanted to buy the schematic, or full service manual, but they don't have it.

I finally got the HP rep to admit HP doesn't make anything themselves anymore, and pays other companies to customize a design they already have available, to HP specs.

They don't even do any component level repairs on their products, 'cause they don't even have the schematics or parts to repair the devices they sell, and just swap boards or other parts to "fix" the thing for their customers.

Nice HP techs ... Huh? ... I'd never buy HP again.

If I can find out who (what company) actually made it for them, I may be able to get some info from them... If they didn't sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement with HP.

Oh yeah, DELL ...

They went so far as to customize a different wiring for the 20-pin power supply connector on some of their mobo's, so when a customer tried using any standard PSU , other than the DELL brand, the motherboard would get fried.

Yeah... Nice DELL brands....!



Then DELL would say ... "it's now out of warranty, you used a non-DELL PSU on it"

Thanks for looking.

I'm surprised with all the members here, and all the techs on this site, there are none with this info.

These Thin Clients aren't as popular as I originally thought.

I didn't mean to sound like "sour grapes ranting"

I was just making a statement, but now that you've explained the "deal" here, I can understand the situation.

Should I post in another area, if anyone knows the pinout or has the schematic?

Or not bother there too?

I don't want to step on any toes.

And, to make clearer, my statement in the other post, ... I wasn't referring to the EVGA techs.

Just the members, in general, who have technical knowledge.
But now I know this thread area is limited regarding people viewing.

OK
I posted the question in the General Discussions section.

Now ... To wait for a reply!

:)

DUH...!
I just noticed you said "General Hardware" not Discussions area
So I put one in the hardware area too.

I hope the mods won't ban me for that!

I know ... I was just being cute...!

dhemke

Yur too old to be cute LMAO.

not if i still look young

NewestUser
Soon to be installed second RAM memory socket in the space opened for it on the board pattern. 

Hi,
Nice work with the mods!
I'm very interested in the RAM mod, i use the T5730 as a NAS (FreeNAS 8) and it would not hurt with some additional ram.
Do you know the max amount of ram you can fit to this board if you use 2 sockets? I know 2 gb work in one socket but does it support more then 4 gb total? 
 
I think i found the right socket at at this place (can't post links yet, so you need to copy and paste):
 
w w w.foxconn.com/NWInG/search/Product_Details_Report.asp?P_PN=AS0A426-NARN-7F&P_type=Device-to-PCB connector&P_Family=Memory Connector&P_Series=DDR II SO DIMM Connector&searchTypeID=4
 
( DDR II SO DIMM Connector: AS0A426-NARN-7F)
The only problem now is to find a place to buy it from, that offers shipping to Sweden. From where did you buy your socket?
 
/Johan