Connect the monitor to Thecus N5200 without soldering (lifehack)

In ancient times, NAS Thecus N5200 NAS was bought for 36,000 rubles ; He attracted the opportunity to combine nas and a router in one device. On board there were a wan port and 4 lan ports + the ability to collect a raid of 5 drives. The device itself did not justify itself in terms of the nas function, it does not see 3 Tb hard drives, the slow speed of operation with several streams (less than 10 MB / s). And it was decided to put ubuntu on it. It seems that the process is not complicated, opening the case shows that inside a regular computer, the presence of two usb ports allows you to stick usb-cdrom and a keyboard. The main problem is that there is no video output, but I’ll tell you how to get around this in this article.


Initially, apparently they were planning to get the vga output all the same, but they didn’t do it so that they didn’t put the ubuntu (it is possible on some models). In the picture we see a sealed hole for vga.



We open the back cover.



We remove the case.



We see the non-soldered vga connector, at first I thought to buy the vga output and soldered it myself, but my hands still couldn’t reach.



The type of connector is on the back.



We take the vga cable



and we disassemble it with a screwdriver and duckbill. We



insert into the non-soldered connector



Front view



Next, stick the keyboard and cider and get a regular computer, go into the BIOS, select the boot from usb-cdrom and put ubuntu in the minimum configuration. You can upgrade a mini-ide flash drive from 128 to 512 MB, in general in Russia this is not a problem to buy.

Two pictures of Thecus entrails for the curious.