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- Jan 1, 1970
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Matt said:There is that... but $25 for an adapter is a lot cheaper and easier than
an hour or more of my time to pull all the cards, remove the board,
desolder one fuse, find an appropriate replacement, solder it back in,
and reassemble everything, and pray that that was the actual fix
You don't have to use a fuse, just jumper it. The fuse is there because
of stupid UL requirement, where they are worried that a short in the
keyboard cable will heat the cable up and start a fire. When I worked at
a motherboard company, we didn't use a fuse for countries where the
safety agency didn't require it. I couldn't believe that is was actually
any cheaper to put in a jumper than a fuse, but it saved about 3 cents
per motherboard, and we were manufacturing hundreds of thousands of
boards per month.