Donavon West at HomeServerHacks.com just published a step-by-step MEMORY UPGRADE TUTORIAL for the LX195. The memory is upgraded to 2gb; the upgrade should only 3-5 minutes from the looks of it.

LINK: http://www.homeserverhacks.com/2009/04/upgrading-memory-in-hp-mediasmart.html

From Donavon's pictures, ... it looks like there is a 26-pin connector on the motherboard. I wonder if this is a KVM connector?

Looks like the same troubleshooting connector as in the EX series.
I am sure the cable will work here as well.

Just looking at the unit: How sweet would that have been:
2 mounting slots for 2.5" hard drives. You can get the 2.5" drives up to 500MB now. So if this was really a "unit for the budget concious customer", that option would have at least allowed for an internal upgrade to unlock folder duplication features.

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As you can see, this was much easier than the original upgrade. With practice, I bet you could do the entire upgrade in less than 30 seconds, but you should probably take your time.



actually 30 seconds:D

Hey guys. This is indeed the same connector and my Gen 1 cable works just fine. However the USB keyboard does not working during a POST so I can't get into the BIOS. Unfortubately I didn't order the one with a keyboard/mouse port.

Does it have the same jumper as the EX48x? I can test when I pop the case on mine in the next day or so.

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I've taken a high resolution photo of the LX195 mainboard and a picture of the VGA connector attached at Home Server Hacks:

http://www.homeserverhacks.com/2009/05/closer-look-at-hp-lx195-mainboard.html

Alex, I haven't tried the jumper yet as I had no luck on the ex485.

Thanks for the picture, it does look like there are a few jumpers on the board we can try out, I hope to get some time to do that this weekend.

FYI I had no problems with either USB or PS2 keyboard with the BIOS unlock jumper on the EX48x.

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