Thanx for replying (I was beginning to wonder if I had broken a forum rule or something)
As for the SmartBoard cable I caved and bought a new one. Upon comparison the only difference I could find was a .1 volt boost in my cable so IDK
In my search I have stumbled across reworking forums...
a friend gave me an averatec 2300 series laptop that was busted. it charges the battery and when i press the power button the power light comes on and the CD drive can be opened and spins up with a disc in it but nothing else turns on no fan, no built in screen, no attached monitor,or other...
unfortunatly i don't have an official power supply. is there any kind of testing i can do. oh and when i pluged into the board i measured the voltage across all the poart pins on the board and every other one starting with #1 had 8 volts to it (using the 9v power supply) not sure if this helps.
firstly hello.
second my problem is i bought a smartboard 580 (touchscreen dry erase board) at an auction. it came with nothing doing some digging i found a schematic for the cable required to connect the board to my computer: http://www2.smarttech.com/kbdoc/186" now i have tried to make this...