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[IndexPhinger]

My friend from telus (who shall remain nameless) has given me a new 2wire router and a Thomson TelusTV box.

I wasn't very interested in the 2wire router, I just added it to my wifi farm (an experiment to see which channel goes farthest)

but that aside, I was tinkering in the thomson, I found several Computer related components.

1, it has an 82801 PC Chipset, IDE and Compactflash (it has a 64, but I transferred the contents and upgraded it to 128)

It has 1GB Of Ram on hynix BGA Chips.

An ICS Clock generator... a Jtag port that suspiciously looks like the one on my old P4 Dell.

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Its clearly running some flavor of Windows CE.

The problem is, the heatsink is soldered to the board and I dont want to wreck this machine, so I'll look up as many part no.s as possible

Edit: it still works and has service! but my ISP doesnt support NTP (it may just be my configuration but oh well)

EDIT!: Its running a Intel ULV Celeron M@ Possibly 1.0+ghz! I'm thinking of modifying it to run XP


Its capable of VGA! (mine even has a pin header but I have no spare VGA cables to hack up.)

Also Serial!


MOAR EDITS!!!
I've googled this box and i can hack on

2 more USB 2.0 ports
PS/2 mouse & keyboard
Mini PCI slot

and the hard drive just needs a power adaptor I can build out of an old CD rom audio cable!

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Edited by IndexPhinger, 11 April 2009 - 05:20 PM.

[Aghaster]

That's awesome! I'm quite sure your guess for the JTAG port is right I guess you could install Linux on it.

[IndexPhinger]

That's awesome! I'm quite sure your guess for the JTAG port is right I guess you could install Linux on it.

I need some help reading german as theres a guide and babelfish is horrible

EDIT: NVM IT BOOTED INTO ITS OWN WINDOWS CE

its just downloading the current bios from the net then it'll reboot and It'll run in standard PC mode.

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Edited by IndexPhinger, 08 April 2009 - 09:55 PM.

[R4p1d]

I would make a home file server out of it, that would be nice.

Speaking of pci slots, I finally got in parts for my aspire one, and I just got done soldering the mini-pcie slot down, how ironic.

Edit: By the way, do you mean ide cable when you said cd rom audio cable? Or did you mean a regular 3.5mm jack?

Edited by R4p1d, 08 April 2009 - 10:12 PM.

[IndexPhinger]

I would make a home file server out of it, that would be nice.

Speaking of pci slots, I finally got in parts for my aspire one, and I just got done soldering the mini-pcie slot down, how ironic.

I was going to make a Portable Game System/NAS/Video Streaming Device since its got plenty of USB and the bare essentials to play movies.

[Aghaster]

I would make a home file server out of it, that would be nice.

Speaking of pci slots, I finally got in parts for my aspire one, and I just got done soldering the mini-pcie slot down, how ironic.

I was going to make a Portable Game System/NAS/Video Streaming Device since its got plenty of USB and the bare essentials to play movies.

Buy game controller adapters for your favorite console and install an emulator with all the games

[R4p1d]

Make it a home media server, you could use it for games too, like all your favorite classic consoles.

[IndexPhinger]

I would make a home file server out of it, that would be nice.

Speaking of pci slots, I finally got in parts for my aspire one, and I just got done soldering the mini-pcie slot down, how ironic.

Edit: By the way, do you mean ide cable when you said cd rom audio cable? Or did you mean a regular 3.5mm jack?

uses one of the white ends for power...

Edited by IndexPhinger, 09 April 2009 - 01:20 AM.

[R4p1d]

I would make a home file server out of it, that would be nice.

Speaking of pci slots, I finally got in parts for my aspire one, and I just got done soldering the mini-pcie slot down, how ironic.

Edit: By the way, do you mean ide cable when you said cd rom audio cable? Or did you mean a regular 3.5mm jack?

uses one of the white ends for power...

Ah, ok.

Do you know what video chipset it has?

[IndexPhinger]

I would make a home file server out of it, that would be nice.

Speaking of pci slots, I finally got in parts for my aspire one, and I just got done soldering the mini-pcie slot down, how ironic.

Edit: By the way, do you mean ide cable when you said cd rom audio cable? Or did you mean a regular 3.5mm jack?

uses one of the white ends for power...

Ah, ok.

Do you know what video chipset it has?

INTEL 854 Graphics, which I presume to be a modded intel810.

[IndexPhinger]

I put a preliminary VGA hook up in for a bit, it runs at 720x480 and is quite clear, I'll assemble a full one once I get more scrap parts.

[IndexPhinger]

I have recently aquired 5 more of these! 3 more 1100's, this model

and 2 IP1000s which are msntvs

[thepcdude]

Damn doood! Nice

[IndexPhinger]

Damn doood! Nice

My network doesnt support asking for the time from NTP otherwise I think they'd boot!

The 7segs are AC so thats why they looked messed up in the pic.

The bottom one is my first one and doesnt have its compactflash in, I'm still tinkering in it.

the top two have an older firmware and no buttons/display otherwise they're somewhat the same.

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Edited by IndexPhinger, 11 April 2009 - 04:26 PM.

[IndexPhinger]

Ooh! the older models look even more fun man, I see actual pads for a FULL SIZED PCI, VGA, a Molex, IDE, More USB, several 5v and 12v connectors...

and the Bios seems to be more hackable than ever

And the cool thing is, my girlfreind found a compatible motherboard we can use to flash the hacked bios onto my machines with

The older models run on a P3 @933mhz, and the black ones run at possibly 1.4ghz on celeron Ms.

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Edited by IndexPhinger, 11 April 2009 - 05:21 PM.

[thepcdude]

And the cool thing is, my girlfreind found a compatible motherboard we can use to flash the hacked bios onto my machines with

.....what?
O_O
You have been blessed child. Blessed.

[Cryptik Hex]

Dude, this looks incredible! I don't know why I took so long to look at this post! I'm thinking of hunting one of these down on ebay. I've been wanting to explore hardware hacking for a while, and this is just irresistible!

BTW: thepcdude is totally right. ftw.

[R4p1d]

Dude....I am so jealous...

[IndexPhinger]

Dude....I am so jealous...

here, this is the modded rom based on the Intel Consumer Electronics Firmware Development Kit which can load windows/linux...

I havent the computer to mod the BIOSes yet but I can go get it soon

You can snoop in it, open it in wordpad

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Edited by IndexPhinger, 11 April 2009 - 10:19 PM.

[R4p1d]

Dude....I am so jealous...

here, this is the modded rom based on the Intel Consumer Electronics Firmware Development Kit which can load windows/linux...

I havent the computer to mod the BIOSes yet but I can go get it soon

You can snoop in it, open it in wordpad

Those would make awesome home servers.