Aye, in my opinion UPS are money-grabbing scumbags. If there's an option when ordering a product from an international vendor I will ALWAYS go with a company that doesn't use UPS. Their brokerage charge is a complete joke.

l8r,
Det

I don't think it's MS. This happens during or shortly after the bios post. Basically...my motherboard must be doing this...it's way before a boot device is chosen... Is there a way to lock the display for a short period of time after power up? If I can locate the character that is being displayed is...

Nope, the startup screen appears as intended if the serial cable is disconnected before power-on.

...and Cypher, thanks for the nice words about the case. :-)

Hi, I'm having a bizarre problem happen with my VK202-25. On bootup two weird characters are added to my startup screen a short way into the boot process. You can see them in the piccies of my case in the gallery. I've double checked the startup screen and it's defined correctly. It has been suggest...

bUnit: VK202-25
Case: Coolermaster ATC 210
Difficulty: Moderate

Here's my latest project. The VFD is mounted via 4 bolts glued to the back of the faceplate.

Currently this is aircooled...next stop watercooling.

l8r,
Detritus

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I was pointed at this thread by Henry (cheers! :smile:). I'm trying to build a relay circuit for my VFD so that I can use it to power a couple of cold-cathodes on and off. I think I understand the diagram (3rd). You've got a diode wired in parrallel with the fan. A 4.7k resistor wired in between the...

I'm the proud owner of a shiny new Matrix Orbital VFD (VK202-25). I'm hoping to use the VFD as a mod bus to power my cathodes and any other misc lighting in my new case. Unfortunately the GPOs don't produce enough power to do that and I'm reliably informed (thanks Macroman!) that I need some sort of...