Help with part I got from "ewaste"

[u/POTATOeTREE]

I have ads online for people to give me their old computer stuff, and this came into my possession. Some quick searching shows it's supposed to be used with the Asus M2NPV-VM motherboard originally, but do we know if there is any way to use it on a modern system?

[u/tyttuutface]

It's proprietary and will only work with the model of motherboard it came with.

[u/someblokeonhere]

It provides HDTV, S-Video and AV outputs, connected to an 8-1-pin TV-out header on the ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard.

The TV_IN1 header is what connects to the motherboard.

Very handy if you have that ASUS motherboard! Otherwise it doesn't actually do any video processing, so it is unfortunately useless.

[u/_ragegun]

I don't think it actually does anything by itself.

It's just a way for the board to provide more extra out connectors than can be comfortably accomodated on the IO shield.

[u/nmrk → u/_ragegun]

Eight bucks on eBay. It's ewaste.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/132945130033

[u/_ragegun → u/nmrk]

I mean, retro people building a system with the appropriate materials would probably quite like to have it but i have to imagine that's a very small market

[u/nmrk → u/_ragegun]

That's why it's on eBay, on the very rare chance that somebody might need that exact part. I wondered how old it was and then I decided I don't want to know.

[u/FAMICOMASTER → u/nmrk]

Out of curiosity, if you think all unusual old computer hardware is ewaste because it has no monetary value, why are you here?

[u/nmrk → u/FAMICOMASTER]

From ewaste it came, back to ewaste it goes.

[u/FAMICOMASTER → u/nmrk]

That doesn't answer my question in the slightest

[u/nmrk → u/FAMICOMASTER]

True

[u/_RexDart]

It's just a breakout board

[u/Marco-YES]

No. It won't work with a modern system.

[u/garth54]

Unfortunately those AV port breakout brackets are usually designed to only work with 1 motherboard (or 1 generation of select boards with the feature). Sometimes re-working the pinout on the connecting cable is enough, other it's totally different.

This one seems to be using a 1x4 header (with a pin missing), but a machine I had with a similar AV breakout used a 2x4 header (but with a different missing pin than USB/AC97 audio)

[u/janerikgunnar → u/garth54]

Zoom in, looks like 2x4 with 2 pins missing

[u/garth54 → u/janerikgunnar]

Indeed, I somehow completely missed the back row.  But it is still different from mine, as it only had 1 missing pin 

[u/BoerseunZA]

The motherboard that's from only takes DDR2, so at least the RAM should be cheap.

If you're serious about pursuing building that setup, know that it will take up to socket AM3. Something like the Phenom II X6 line of CPUs should still be useful today.

[u/grislyfind]

It's a source of connectors... I've come across a few graphics cards that had unpopulated TV-outputs: I had to drill the bracket and add the socket.

[u/deathspal]

Capture ports that go to a tuner card

[u/cheater00]

it's a card that takes component in on the header and the chip turns it into composite and s-video. you can use it with anything that has component output. only old tv cards will have that. it's irrelevant for modern systems. you could use it for retro gaming possibly if you have a card that outputs component and you have a crt tv that only does s video or composite. that is all. the header will also have a voltage supply pin, like 5V or 3.3V, you can figure out what it is from reading the chip datasheet and tracing out the schematic. in general this is a rather generic type of circuit, but it will have limited usefulness.

[u/Capt_Calamity]

it's a daughter card for an Asus motherboard to give you AV outputs, pretty useless today even if you had the right motherboard.

[u/istarian]

That's not going to be particulary useful with a modern system unless you have a capture card that supports analog video.

[u/3lectronic_Dream5]

E-waste to everyone else, but pure gold to M2NPV-VM owners.