what is this component?

Mr_S · 1 Feb 2010 at 16:30

Can anybody tell me what the component is on this intel D945 board that the arrows point to please?

http://i988.photobucket.com/albums/af7/sharpe49/40475_frontcopy.jpg

Thanks

IAmATeaf · 3 Feb 2010 at 09:41

Can't really make the component out, can't you get a better/closer picture?

Mr_S · 3 Feb 2010 at 17:01

OK here is a bigger pic of the component

http://i988.photobucket.com/albums/af7/sharpe49/d945gtp_lgcopy.jpg

Thanks

Mr_S · 5 Feb 2010 at 07:22

PhillyDee · 5 Feb 2010 at 08:03

Hmm, what an odd looking thing!
I have no idea, Is there a code next to it identifying what it is. Oh, and thats a BTX board isn't it. What do you need to know what the component is?

Datamonkey · 5 Feb 2010 at 08:17

Looks like some sort of light sensor to me.

Mr_S · 5 Feb 2010 at 13:32

The board I have seen it on is an Intel D945gcz, yes it is a BTX board.

I have several of these I look after and this component on quite a few seems to be opening up where you can see it's in two pieces.

I will have a closer look at the board for a code

Ricardox1 · 5 Feb 2010 at 14:43

Looks abit strange, never seen that before

gazzamcg · 5 Feb 2010 at 15:42

It's a little camera.

Big brother is watching you.

xb8browney · 5 Feb 2010 at 15:45

Chassis intrusion header ?

chipps101 · 5 Feb 2010 at 23:21

diagnostic led maybe ? never seen anything like it on a board before :confused:

PhillyDee · 6 Feb 2010 at 01:24

Perhaps some sort of temperature/moisture probe, its a plastic cover for something, but nothing I have ever seen!

ghop · 6 Feb 2010 at 01:31

What a weird board! Can't think of any reason why the CPU socket should be twisted round like that, especially as the mounting holes are still in the normal place

I honestly can't make out what it is, but then again even on my own motherboard there's lots of things which I have no idea what they are.

COYS · 6 Feb 2010 at 01:40

Strange board. What rocessor does it take?/

ReaVerUK · 6 Feb 2010 at 02:30

OK so i'm bored @ work. Not in exactly the same place but it's only a block diagram so it may be the part B in the diagram although it'll be the strangest i've ever seen if it is.

Intel D945GCZ Motherboard Manual extract

DavyBoy · 6 Feb 2010 at 02:46

I just googled the frequency number that is next to that thing, and it says it's a Crystal Oscillator?!?

32.768kHZ

Google that.

::edit::

Google Image shows up things that look kinda similar to:

MagicBoy · 6 Feb 2010 at 02:53

ghop said:
What a weird board! Can't think of any reason why the CPU socket should be twisted round like that, especially as the mounting holes are still in the normal place

I honestly can't make out what it is, but then again even on my own motherboard there's lots of things which I have no idea what they are.

Traces are a more even length to the northbridge?

BTX was all about airflow management. We had some IBM machines with BTX boards at work, but they gave up after about 12 months when no-one else was making them.

arknor · 6 Feb 2010 at 03:07

mikewebb said:
Strange board. What rocessor does it take?/

thats not wierd, i got one of these in the garage
http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/7822/be6.jpg

slot 1! lol from when cpu's sloted in like gfx cards

its got a p3 633mhz cpu in it to so not even that ancient.

DavyBoy · 6 Feb 2010 at 03:13

^^

I remember when I first properly got into building my own PC's, my friend had the slot A AMD system which was the same idea as that mobo basically.

His chip ran at 700MHz iirc, and he could clock it all the way up to 950MHz!!!

.Simon · 6 Feb 2010 at 03:48

xb8browney said:
Chassis intrusion header ?

It's this.