I bought a CAT5 crimp device and a pack of connectors and coloured latches and make my own to the correct length.
Does push the eyesight to the extreme though :-)
As for the miscreant HDMI cbale though, there is ver little space above and below the socket but nothing in the same level . I might try a 90 degree adaptor which is cable-tied to the Mboard if there is space.
OTOH The mboard and Win7 Pro 32 will be 7 years old in June so I might start to think about what its replacement will be.
You can easily get any colour and length of those on Ebay without having to make them yourself.
What pisses me off is the thickness of the HDMI plugs means you actually can't use one in a graphics card where the motherboard has the graphics card on the very top slot, if your case has an indented back. Most MBs have them at the top, and most fancy cases are indented. So the majority of high spec machines cannot be used for HDMI. Total failure of design!
This *is* uk.d-i-y though, and I can make them immediately.
I bought a crimp tool to fit an RJ45 on the other end of a cable that had to go through a wall (to save having to drill a larger hole to take the RJ45 as well as the cable). And I never managed to make it work: the plug never made proper contact with all the wires simultaneously. I followed the instructions very carefully, but eventually gave up. My dad got a larger masonry drill, drilled a bigger hole through the brick wall (*) and the job was done!
(*) In his house, even the internal walls are brick.
Just how urgently do you need one? I have a handful of spares of each length anyway, and when I get to only 1 or 2 left, I buy another pack.
There are at least two forms of RJ45 plug and crimp tool. It sounds like you used the wrong plug for the tool - or vice versa.
And you have to get the 8 leads splayed out in the correct colour order (!) and cut straight so they all push into the plug to the same depth.
Also remember to get the plug the right way up.
Yep asll of that. I think we wasteed about 50 crimps before we realised that we had the wrong tool, and then had crimping we had about 5% failure as well
I told the boys to stop wasting company time and buy them pre made
BTDTGTTS... I had to borrow a tester.
Andy
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