[Asterisk-Users] void your warranty and get a 3.3V/5V TE405P

[Tony Wasson]

Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:
> http://www.mixdown.ca/~asterisk/
> 
> The card seems to be working fine.  Don't expect warranty on it though.  :-)
> 
> Why?  Because I wanted a quad-span T1 card which worked in the high-end 
> systems I was intending it for, but that I could also keep a few in stock and 
> if the system mainboard failed, pull the card an put it in a standard PC 
> system.  I didn't want to have to stock 3.3V and 5V exclusive cards, and the 
> TE405P hardware looked like it could handle it.
> 
> I am sure that Digium goofed when they gave the card a 5V PCI card edge 
> instead of a universal 3.3V/5V one -- Hopefully their next batch of TE405P 
> cards will have a universal card edge and they will phase out the TE410P.
> 
> Again -- THIS WILL VOID YOUR WARRANTY.  It's a USD$1500 card.  if you can't 
> eat the cost of a broken card, don't do this.
> 
> Regards,
> Andrew

We did this at the suggestion of Digium support the our new TE405P 
showed up. The mainboard that said it had 3.3V slots did not.