Looking for a cable!!! Can't find a place that sells these cables! PLEASE HELP! (Updated: w/Pic) - Fixable w WOL-cable?

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crypticlogin

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If it's for your laptop, I'm 70% certain that what your looking for is:

From Digikey catalog page (PDF), 1st page, Figure 1, 6
- Connector housing: 1.25mm housing, Molex Part #51021-0400 (measure your part and check the dimensions to be sure)
- Crimp pins: Molex Part #50058-8000
- Some 28-32 AWG wire with some thin insulation
- The $170/$450 crimping tool to get the pins crimped properly
- OR -
time, patience, steady hands, and a fine pair of needle-nosed pliers

There really isn't anything in the desktop world that uses these things so stores like Frys and Radio Shack won't stock cables with these connectors. I was looking for almost the same exact (well, I needed 2-pins) thing not too long ago. And shop around: the other electronics mail order places might carry the items at better prices and don't have some minimum order surcharge.
 

coolVariable

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I am not sure about the crimps and connectors in that catalogue ... to be honest it is hard to makle out how they look.
I fixed the cable makeshift wise for now but I still would like to buy a new cable (just to be on the safe side ....)

Does anyone have a WOL-cable that he can measure?
 

coolVariable

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Could somebody measure the connectors on a WOL cable anyhow because if they are basically the same (only 4 pins vs. 3 pins) I could just take one of the wires from the WOL cable and replace the one broken wire on my cable ...
 

d33pt

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that cable is just one end of the analog cdrom to soundcard cable.. you can just get two of those cables, cut them in half then splice the wires together...
 

coolVariable

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PLEASE READ THREADS BEFORE POSTING!!!!!!

THE CABLE IS NOT LIKE A CD-ROM AUDIO CABLE!!!

IT IS SMALLER!!!