[SOLVED] What on earth is this miniature mobo that i found?

[turbo_goat]

I was tearing apart a prebuilt i bought a long time ago for the 2080 that was inside, and used the guts to build a second pc for my gf....came across this three months later whne cleaning up my office:

anyways its here, what can i do with it? why on earth is there sata power AND data??

help me use it ! i have so many cables and pc stuff lying arounjd i could plug in,

I ripped apart a prebuilt i purchased a while ago, and just found this part- it was not using the sata powerr or data, and seemed to run the led's (or at least act as a hub). Why not the actual mobo?

why on earth is there sata power AND data?? its not a hard drive...right...?

thanks for your time,
~Turbo

 

[drea.drechsler]

can you get numbers off that PQFP?

 

[turbo_goat]

will do right now!

ok if you meant does it carry voltage, yes.

if you meant the printed material;...its so small, but heres what i made out:

"NuVaToN
nuvaton 125Lkc2ae"

 

[turbo_goat]

next line

"2714b0412
02BFA"

theres one thing more in the right corner but i think i pulled an eye muscle

 

[jojesa]

Could you take a better quality image of both, front and back.
It looks like a LED SATA powered controller card with a USB header for the software that controls the lighting.

 

[kanewolf]

My guess is some kind of RGB controller. If you crop just the silkscreen logo and do a google search on that, it is the HP Omen logo.

 

[drea.drechsler]

The QFP looks like it could be a Nuvaton microcontroller chip. They are used in all sorts of devices when they need a low-cost programmable controller...especially IoT devices. The numbering is a bit wonky though...possibly because of mis-reading, possibly because it's a custom or semi-custom device based on a stock item.

A programmable RGB controller sounds plausible except...why SATA data too? And are there that many different kinds of RGB lighted things all needing those different and strange headers?

Can you look on the board for an FCC ID number? That can be searched if it has one.

 

[turbo_goat]

The QFP looks like it could be a Nuvaton microcontroller chip. They are used in all sorts of devices when they need a low-cost programmable controller...especially IoT devices. The numbering is a bit wonky though...possibly because of mis-reading, possibly because it's a custom or semi-custom device based on a stock item.

A programmable RGB controller sounds plausible except...why SATA data too? And are there that many different kinds of RGB lighted things all needing those different and strange headers?

Can you look on the board for an FCC ID number? That can be searched if it has one.

 

[turbo_goat]

looking on the back helped haha...will close after one mmore thing...what can i do with it? got mountains of pc stuff, would love to make something unique or creative. maybe sata portablwe ssd converter to make backlights behind monitor?

set up a start up botton that is somewhere cool and not on the pc might be fun.

 

[jojesa]

You might be able to use for lighting but I don't know if you will be able to control it....since is a proprietary RGB controller for the HP Omen Obelisk, you might need their software to control it (HP Command center).
This is how it looks inside the HP computer.

 

[turbo_goat]

The QFP looks like it could be a Nuvaton microcontroller chip. They are used in all sorts of devices when they need a low-cost programmable controller...especially IoT devices. The numbering is a bit wonky though...possibly because of mis-reading, possibly because it's a custom or semi-custom device based on a stock item.

A programmable RGB controller sounds plausible except...why SATA data too? And are there that many different kinds of RGB lighted things all needing those different and strange headers?

Can you look on the board for an FCC ID number? That can be searched if it has one.

my guess would be that since it was a prebuilt, they didnt want you using anytyhing except bizarre pin loadouts that you probably could only get from, them. The obelisk was supposed to be (i guess is still with a 1080 instead of a 2080 for the same price...) the "prebuilt you could upgrade" and i gotta say, introduced me into the pc world in a way that makes me wonder how i lived without them. i bet they had plans that this would be the nintendo of prebuilt pc's, and intended to sell things that exclusiv ely work with it.

btw it works without the sata cable

I bet

 

[turbo_goat]

You might be able to use for lighting but I don't know if you will be able to control it....since is a proprietary RGB controller for the HP Omen Obelisk, you might need their software to control it (HP Command center).
This is how it looks inside the HP computer.

appreciate the time you took for lookiing up that picture!

i actually used this and got the light bar from the obelisk to work in other cases, so ty. Its absurdly bright haha, makes corsairs look like my wimpy mystic light rgb

 

[drea.drechsler]

looking on the back helped haha...will close after one mmore thing...what can i do with it? got mountains of pc stuff, would love to make something unique or creative. maybe sata portablwe ssd converter to make backlights behind monitor?

set up a start up botton that is somewhere cool and not on the pc might be fun.

The back helped...that name block especially! Also it's obvious the SATA data isn't connected to traces, so they use the whole connector block only for the power. Makes sense if you're an HP and buy those things by the boatload.

In addition to the RGB LED lights it could control other things too...and of course there will need be a way to get the control signals and data into the board. So that helps account for the several interconnects maybe.

and no FCCID number so this must not be a device that requires one.