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Well, that was entertaining.
I ordered a new keyboard and a couple of USB extension cables for the studio, figuring I would need them to finish the rewiring. They came today and I went downstairs to work on this, but I had had a revelation since placing the order:
I could move the computer to the opposite end of the console.
More to the point, I could move the computer to the opposite end of the console where the computer monitors sit *if* the Thunderbolt cable would reach. And it *does*. Not with a lot of excess length, but the cable reaches, so all things became possible.
After dinner, I crawled underneath the console and started removing cables that were no longer needed. Really long DVI cables, network wiring, PS2 keyboard extenders all came out and were tossed into a pile. USB cables were pulled out from where they were, untangled, and fed through slots to come out at the other end of the console. A USB 3.0 hub was discovered (gleefully!) among the debris, which meant that there were now a metric ton of USB ports available.
And when I wired it all up, things worked. I had to fix up the touch screen on the appropriate monitor, but that's not unusual. It turned out that the main monitors in the studio weren't working because the plug to the subwoofer had loosened just enough that it wasn't getting power, but once that was plugged in, they went back in business.
Before doing all this, I installed the old Firewire card in the new machine which will -- if I'm reading the documentation correctly -- allow me to continue to use the old Firewire UA Satellite Duo for a while longer. We'll try wiring that up later. And I also have a pair of cheap computer speakers that I need to wire into the computer proper and see if I can get them to work.
But it looks like things are working. Now it's just clean up around the edges.
I ordered a new keyboard and a couple of USB extension cables for the studio, figuring I would need them to finish the rewiring. They came today and I went downstairs to work on this, but I had had a revelation since placing the order:
I could move the computer to the opposite end of the console.
More to the point, I could move the computer to the opposite end of the console where the computer monitors sit *if* the Thunderbolt cable would reach. And it *does*. Not with a lot of excess length, but the cable reaches, so all things became possible.
After dinner, I crawled underneath the console and started removing cables that were no longer needed. Really long DVI cables, network wiring, PS2 keyboard extenders all came out and were tossed into a pile. USB cables were pulled out from where they were, untangled, and fed through slots to come out at the other end of the console. A USB 3.0 hub was discovered (gleefully!) among the debris, which meant that there were now a metric ton of USB ports available.
And when I wired it all up, things worked. I had to fix up the touch screen on the appropriate monitor, but that's not unusual. It turned out that the main monitors in the studio weren't working because the plug to the subwoofer had loosened just enough that it wasn't getting power, but once that was plugged in, they went back in business.
Before doing all this, I installed the old Firewire card in the new machine which will -- if I'm reading the documentation correctly -- allow me to continue to use the old Firewire UA Satellite Duo for a while longer. We'll try wiring that up later. And I also have a pair of cheap computer speakers that I need to wire into the computer proper and see if I can get them to work.
But it looks like things are working. Now it's just clean up around the edges.