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Google AI has assured me the Lenovo TS140 has a proprietary 10 pin, 14 pin
and 16 pin header for the front panel connectors.

Having counted the pins several times I have 12, 2 rows of six. I do have
a connector with tails on its way from China but it would be good to get
the connectors correct while it transits Hormuz.

Anybody re-cased a TS140 and who actually knows the pinout please?
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Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
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Jeff Gaines wrote:

Google AI has assured me the Lenovo TS140 has a proprietary 10 pin, 14
pin and 16 pin header for the front panel connectors.

Having counted the pins several times I have 12, 2 rows of six. I do
have a connector with tails on its way from China but it would be good
to get the connectors correct while it transits Hormuz.

Anybody re-cased a TS140 and who actually knows the pinout please?

I looked at the PDF versions of the User Guide, the Platform
Specification and the Hardware Maintenance Manual for the TS140, and
searched on the two FRU numbers of motherboards that can be fitted, none
of them mentioned pinouts.

That sounds like prime circumstances for AI to make shit up ...

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On 20/05/2026 in message <n767shFemq8U1@mid.individual.net> Andy Burns
wrote:

Jeff Gaines wrote:

Google AI has assured me the Lenovo TS140 has a proprietary 10 pin, 14 >>pin and 16 pin header for the front panel connectors.

Having counted the pins several times I have 12, 2 rows of six. I do have >>a connector with tails on its way from China but it would be good to get >>the connectors correct while it transits Hormuz.

Anybody re-cased a TS140 and who actually knows the pinout please?

I looked at the PDF versions of the User Guide, the Platform Specification >and the Hardware Maintenance Manual for the TS140, and searched on the two >FRU numbers of motherboards that can be fitted, none of them mentioned >pinouts.

That sounds like prime circumstances for AI to make shit up ...

Absolutely, I think it did!
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Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
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Try milking a bull, you'll learn real quick.
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Jeff Gaines <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:

Google AI has assured me the Lenovo TS140 has a proprietary 10 pin, 14 pin and 16 pin header for the front panel connectors.

Having counted the pins several times I have 12, 2 rows of six. I do have
a connector with tails on its way from China but it would be good to get
the connectors correct while it transits Hormuz.

If a ship from China is going via Hormuz, it's lost.

Anybody re-cased a TS140 and who actually knows the pinout please?

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On 22/05/2026 in message <10uorpb$19a8r$1@dont-email.me> Chris wrote:

Jeff Gaines <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:

Google AI has assured me the Lenovo TS140 has a proprietary 10 pin, 14 pin >>and 16 pin header for the front panel connectors.

Having counted the pins several times I have 12, 2 rows of six. I do have
a connector with tails on its way from China but it would be good to get >>the connectors correct while it transits Hormuz.

If a ship from China is going via Hormuz, it's lost.

They put in on a plane :-)

It cleared customs yesterday and is at a sort facility in Braintree.
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Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists
or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.
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Jeff Gaines <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:

On 22/05/2026 in message <10uorpb$19a8r$1@dont-email.me> Chris wrote:

Jeff Gaines <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:

Google AI has assured me the Lenovo TS140 has a proprietary 10 pin, 14 pin >>> and 16 pin header for the front panel connectors.

Having counted the pins several times I have 12, 2 rows of six. I do have >>> a connector with tails on its way from China but it would be good to get >>> the connectors correct while it transits Hormuz.

If a ship from China is going via Hormuz, it's lost.

They put in on a plane :-)

Even better.

It cleared customs yesterday and is at a sort facility in Braintree.

Excellent.



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On 20/05/2026 in message <xn0pq00ag9t04l200h@news.individual.net> Jeff
Gaines wrote:

Google AI has assured me the Lenovo TS140 has a proprietary 10 pin, 14 pin >and 16 pin header for the front panel connectors.

Having counted the pins several times I have 12, 2 rows of six. I do have
a connector with tails on its way from China but it would be good to get
the connectors correct while it transits Hormuz.

Anybody re-cased a TS140 and who actually knows the pinout please?

Found a diagram and can confirm it works:

https://forumscdn.lenovo.com/old_attach/131461iB2D1C9EA6A53CB5D.jpg

Doesn't cover the reset switch but not sure anybody uses that since DOS.

Wanted to get this on record in case anybody else wants to re-case a
Lenovo TS140.

The converter from China seems to follow this but I'm struggling to get it working.
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Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
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It was a right bugger to get him back when he ran off.
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