Serial terminal issues

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 06/06/2013, at 22:51, Christian Weisgerber <naddy at mips.inka.de> wrote:
> Alban Hertroys <haramrae at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> The new system has a Gigabyte GA970A-UD3 board with just a serial header
>> on the board. I bought a serial connector backplate in an electronics
>> store and connected it to the board. Could the pinout be different or
>> something?
> 
> Yes.  There are two different pinouts for motherboard serial headers.


You can probably reverse it yourself if you are careful though - open one end and lift the cable out, flip it over and crimp it back in a vice then trim the excess cable with a hobby knife.

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