Has anyone ever fitted the DTL-T14000 into there TOOL, looking for advice and pictures of where and how it fits.
I had 2 of these kits BNIB. I regret selling them, especially for peanuts. According to Sony they are not user serviceable which is bollocks (probably). IMO open up your TOOL and have a nosey as to what goes where - it can't fit in too many places one would have thought. Bear in mind though even if you managed to get the boards in there, the TOOL also needs a driver diskette which is not included in that pack and it may need other precautions taken too. Even if you then install the boards and driver you still need to software to use it too Overall it will be probably a ballache to get it operational and they do look pretty in their box. With that said if you go through and attempt this other people could learn from your journey
Now I'm jealous. I've always wanted another loose T14k for my TOOL, but never managed to find one. I eventually ended up buying another TOOL that had the emulator preinstalled, but I know quite well how it is installed (after having to disassemble the unit to fix some things inside :nod. In addition to the stuff on your photo, you need an IDE drive (that, if I remember correctly, is jumpered as MASTER) plus 4 of the usual HDD screws, as well as a free mounting space in the TOOL's HDD cage. Open your TOOL and remove the HDD cage and CPU card. Have a look for a daughter card sitting on the PS2 mainboard; it is the board the optical drive connects to, with the (PS2-branded ;-)) CMOS battery. You'll need to remove this daughter card (which I'll refer to here as the MechaCon board), so make sure you can also access the back of the PS2 mainboard by opening the TOOL from the other side as well. Remove the MechaCon board from the PS2 mainboard. Contrary to the photo, you need not disconnect the optical drive from it, just get the board off and place it somewhere safe. [EDIT]Disconnect the 3 pin cable.[/EDIT] Connect both ribbon cables from the T14k kit to the emulator daughter board. [EDIT]Also, connect the 3 pin cable to the small header near its IDE header[/EDIT], then install the board in the place the MechaCon board was in. The MechaCon board now needs to be placed stacked on top of the emulator daughter board; use the distance pieces from your T14k between the two, then use the original screws to fasten the MechaCon PCB. The board-to-board connectors on all three PCBs should just be in the correct spots :nod:. Make sure the ribbon cable from the emulator daughter card (not the IDE cable; the other one) is lying on the base board and is long enough to (approximately) reach the middle normal PCI slot. It shouldn't matter which PCI slot you use, though. Now, reinstall the CPU card. The ribbon cable should easily fit between the card and the base board. Finally, put the emulator PCI card into a free PCI slot, then connect it to the ribbon cable that should just be in the correct position. Afterwards, simply put your additional IDE HDD into the HDD cage, reinstall the cage and connect all HDDs. Make sure you connect the correct HDD(s) to the correct IDE cables. Depending on your installation, you may end up with three HDDs on three different IDE channels, so you may choose to mark your cables somehow. If you then boot your TOOL and everything works as expected, the BIOS reports an additional PCI device. (I wanted to put an image of my BIOS showing the device list here, but imageshack doesn't like it and just reported "No image has been uploaded" for the 4th time :banghead. When the emulator is recognized by the BIOS, you can then install the software for it. You need to install a package on both the TOOL and the development PC for it to work. Good luck!
Does the 3 pin cable originally connected to the MechaCon board connect to the T14K. If you interested I may have ownership of three all boxed, may be willing to swap.
[EDIT]My first reply was wrong. The 3 pin cable is connected to the emulator daughter board.[/EDIT] You got a PM.
See the blue and white cable running under the board to the bottom right, by the looks of things its the T14 boards power surply. By the looks of things its not doing much when its connected to the MechaCon board.
Oops, you are right. My fault, I didn't remember correctly and jumped to conclusions :banghead:. I'm going to fix this in the above messages, just in case...
