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andymoz
13-01-2018, 02:26 PM
Here's an unusual motherboard I haven't seen before .Has a momentary switch near Prom(which already had a socket) Might have been a special developers board? Or is this common?

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See photo.

Darren King
13-01-2018, 05:29 PM
It's a reset switch. Give it a press :)

viewer
17-01-2018, 05:52 PM
Does it do anything special?

Darren King
17-01-2018, 09:51 PM
By itself no. Just resets the TiVo without pulling the plug. Can be useful if you are looking for some bootstrap code or something that happens on startup.

andymoz
18-01-2018, 12:28 PM
Hi Darren,
Apparently it was an early test unit supplied by Hybrid TV in Sydney,hence the pre soldered socket and reset button.

Darren King
18-01-2018, 04:41 PM
Yes they would have been playing around with things. I put a button on a couple of mine a while ago when testing.