not sure I had ever seen anybody try this, but I want to desolder the LCD on my MX6 series from the control board.

The reason is that I want a very thin installation for the LCD, and will run leads back to the controller board to be located nearby.

Would something like 10 inches 26ga wire be ...

nope, when I tried the Mini 5pin, it worked just perfectly, and using a leftover cable and crimping the motherboard end was a lot easier to test than soldering the 4pins onto the MO unit.

However, the solder points look empty, so putting a pin in there should be easy unless it could short anything ...

mine is the TriColor MCE version. I can slide colors from All Blue to All Green to All Red, to any mix in between.

I don't get a true white, but a very bright white/blue.

If, for some reason, MO doesn't want these pics up, that is up to them.

I find it a bit odd they don't have a User manual or anything up yet, but for those interested, here are some Macros of the Typhoon "naked"

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v160/Dgephri/GX%20Typhoon/GXTyphoonbackside01.jpg ...

is this any different than the PreOrder bay inserts?

Edit: Durr, didn't check the dates.

(sarcasm) see? Not only is Ray going to work on it, but Henry uprooted him, his wife, and their 35 foster children, moved them all the way to Calgary, and is starving him until the work gets done!

FYI: I don't know if Ray is married, or has foster children, or eats...so ignore everything else and ...

I know Ray has been running LCDstudio for some time, and often responded to user requests even when it was free.

And in my experience, Matrix Orbital has been very good working on customer requests in the past.

I have seen the same thing.

I removed LCDinfo from my startup. Hopefully they get them working soon.

Mine set to the Red color (0 Green or Blue on the Configuration app)
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v160/Dgephri/GX%20Typhoon/?action=view&current=b715d121.flv

That is about 60% contrast and full backlight, running LCDstudio Winamp Visualization.

It's installed in my SFF right now, but in a ...

mine reverted to stock colors anytime LCDInfo loaded.
So I took that out of the Startup since I don't want it interfering with LCDstudio anyway.

Henry, could we get a collection going of 'Known' and 'high priority' related issues and fixes that MO is already working on?

I would say the IR/MCE issue that alentsa was asking about would be near the top of my interest list as I intend to install Vista Premium and use the MCE features, but in XP ...

In my experience, this happened on the previous Matrix Orbital (my MX2, MX5, and MX6) units whenever your particular motherboard kept power to the 5V line on the USB.

With LCDC I would just tell it to turn the backlight Off on Shutdown.

I am confident we will get Color and Backlight control in ...

I noticed the same thing, and although I haven't separated the PCBs from the mounting tray yet, I imagine it's some sort of protective mask around the IR port/mount.

This unit is attached to the faceplate alot better than the previous generation of MX units (just four bolts on the old ones IIRC ...

in Modding, my way at least, almost every warranty is voided sooner rather than later.

G-15: torn apart, voided
Revolution: torn apart, voided
8800GTX: watercooled, voided
motherboard: Overclocked, voided
CPU: Overclocked, voided

Not recommended for everybody.

good eyes, I will have to check for the 4pin header stubs on my unit. I might just solder on my own Header.

I greatly prefer motherboard internal USB and even converted a BlueTooth Mouse/Keyboard hub to run internally with the .1" pin headers.