confirmation of uselessness re: motherboard eDP port

Mar 17, 2025 Last reply: 1 year ago 3 Replies

ASRock seems to be the champion of motherboards with gimmicks. This mini-ITX desktop PC motherboard:



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has an eDP port for connecting a laptop-like display to the iGPU, ostensibily for mounting a side panel display _inside_ the case to show through the window on the case, as the cool gamer kids do.



This associated product seemed to be on the market for 5 minutes but seems to be discontinued, or never actually fully went to market in the first place:



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The port on the motherboard is 40 pin but accepts an 88441-style male plug, not directly compatible with common eDP laptop panels I don't think. And comparing the pinout in the mobo user manual they've used a variant this standard 40 pin eDP pinout:



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but the pin assignment is reversed top-to-bottom. Also as I understand it eDP doesn't have any standardized way of controlling backlight brightness there are a couple ways of doing it and one would have to probe the motherboard port to find out which method is being used it and then either find a compatible display or implement one's own backlight control hardware.



That is to say I just want to make sure they really worked to make this port useless without their bespoke hardware so I don't have to waste any more time thinking about interesting things one could do with an internal eDP port if they hadn't done that, thanks!


Do you have one of these?

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Why not?

Not made in AMERICA!!!

Also water cooling desktop PCs is kind of silly and those fashion of enclosure seem mostly for the kind of people who would buy audiophile stuff and put extreme camber on their car's wheels.

Right. I usually buy ASus, I already regret my decision with this one. Independent of its quirky hardware layout its got some BIOS quirks that are less fun

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