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First post, by digitaldoofus

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Just bought a Gravis Ultrasound ACE, but has only 512kb memory and I'd like to upgrade to 1024kb. Anyone here in VOGONS have any spare chips that will upgrade a Gravis Ultrasound ACE's memory to 1024kb?

PS: While I'm at it...I don't have a User's Manual for my ACE. Does anyone know where I can download a .pdf copy of the ACE User's Manual? (I really like reading the docs for my sound cards)

Thanks for any help.

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Reply 1 of 14, by digitaldoofus

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With a "cult" following like the UltraSound has...you'd think the owner's manuals would have been committed to .pdf files somewhere on the 'net, wouldn't you?

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Reply 2 of 14, by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman

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I actually tried, but haven't found one. This page is quite comprehensive, but manuals are only available for GUS Classic and GUS Max.

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Reply 3 of 14, by digitaldoofus

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Thanks for the link -- I had not seen that site.

I remember back when "Gravis" soundcards division actually had its "active" place on the web with updated info and drivers, etc (but I only had their joysticks, not any of their soundcards at the time). Too bad I wasn't more forward-thinking, else I could have archived a lot of their files and materials. Of course I also wasn't very cautious about backing up my files back then, so one of my historic hard drive failures would have probably resulted in their disappearance anyway. 😖

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Reply 4 of 14, by Kippesoep

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I have one of those cards... including the original disks and the user manual. I'll see about scanning it to PDF for you.

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Reply 6 of 14, by Kippesoep

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I'm afraid you may be disappointed. The GUS ACE came with a manual, but it was identical to that of the regular GUS and GUS MAX. Nowhere does it even mention the ACE. I've included the PDF from the driver CD.

The only thing that was really ACE specific was the Installation Guide, which was a single sheet of paper that was folded in three. I've included both a foldable version (if you print it to both sides of a single sheet of paper) and a linear version, which can simply be read through on screen.

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    GUS ACE Manuals.zip
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    ZIPped file with 3 PDFs: the User's Guide (not ACE specific) and 2 layouts of the Installation Guide for the ACE.
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    Fair use/fair dealing exception

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Reply 7 of 14, by Kippesoep

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A quick check reveals the manual to be bit for bit identical to the one linked from the site Kreshna linked to 😖

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Reply 8 of 14, by digitaldoofus

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Thanks, that's *still* great! As long as I've got what Gravis included for the ACE owners, I'm happy. 😀

I won't be installing for another two or three weeks (got lots of "projects" going on right now), but hopefully it won't be quite as difficult getting the ACE up-and-running as some of the other models of UltraSound.

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Reply 9 of 14, by aleksej

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digitaldoofus wrote:

but hopefully it won't be quite as difficult getting the ACE up-and-running as some of the other models of UltraSound.

Much easier in fact. 😉

Reply 10 of 14, by digitaldoofus

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aleksej wrote:
digitaldoofus wrote:

but hopefully it won't be quite as difficult getting the ACE up-and-running as some of the other models of UltraSound.

Much easier in fact. 😉

@aleksej: Did you have any difficulty finding the 1MB upgrade memory for your ACE?

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Reply 11 of 14, by digitaldoofus

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UPDATE: In hopes of obtaining the correct 512K memory chip , I have purchased a (2MB) Diamond Stealth 64 Video 2001 card (S3 Trio64V+), which I read online may have the correct chip for my "1MB" UltraSound ACE upgrade.

I won't know if it's got the right chips until I receive it, of course. 🙄 But at worst, I'll have another highly compatible vintage video card for one of my retro-rigs!

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Reply 12 of 14, by Robin4

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@digitaldoofus

Is your memory upgrade working on you ace?? Iam looking also a memory upgrade chip.
I found this one:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Hitachi-General-Purpose-D … #ht_2629wt_1297

But i dont know if its the good chip with the right voltage.. I think you need an 3.3volt chip. On ebay is 5 volts chip i think.

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Reply 13 of 14, by digitaldoofus

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Is your memory upgrade working on you ace?? Iam looking also a memory upgrade chip.
I found this one:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Hitachi-General-Purpose-D … #ht_2629wt_1297

But i dont know if its the good chip with the right voltage.. I think you need an 3.3volt chip. On ebay is 5 volts chip i think.

I ended up using the memory upgrade chips from another Gravis card, and just put away the Trio card into my collection, so I don't know for sure if the chips from the Trio would have worked.

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