What do I do with this LCD????

[TheFro]

I have an ATX case with an LCD in front which I don't know what to do with. I think it might have been used to show the speed of the processor. I was wondering if there is any way to get it to do something like show the speed or temp or something?

 

[Jalapeno]

Does it look like THIS?

 

[bacillus]

wonder why they called it a nurse?

 

[TheFro]

It's built into the case. I took it apart and it's hooked up to either the reset switch or the turbo led. (weird) On the back it has a bunch of pins like the ones on the motherboard for reset, power, speaker, etc. Are there any connectors on any motherboards that I can connect this to and how?

 

[Jalapeno]

How big is it? Do you have a picture by any chance? This sounds like a strange item...

 

[jamesbond007]

Sounds familiar to me. I bet it has either two or three 0's to display the LCD, right? Yes, that's used to display the CPU speed. I bet is an older case because newer cases don't usually come with those. I used to know a friend who had a LCD thing like that on one of their old 486 machines. It was 66Mhz and used two 0's to display the number "66". I would think that your LCD would be hooked up only to a motherboard that supported that feature. On my friend's board, there were a series of jumpers he set to display the 66. Basically, it's useless unless you take it out and use it for something else.

 

[TheFro]

I'll have to get a digital camera to get photos and take apart my case. It'll take me a little bit.

 

[Jalapeno]

jamesbond007, I thought by the time ATX cases came along that "feature" was long gone - I could be wrong though...

 

[pbrain]

i think it's just an led to display the processor speed. the only ones i know have the display 188, so could only show speeds of up to 199. it think i saw these on same somewhere, maybe compgeeks? trash, if you ask me.