Reply 20 of 73, by Tiido
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PLCC is lot easier to deal with than the QFPs I had to mess with. It will be very easy to solder a wire to a pin and very easy to clear out any bridge (desoldering braid/wick makes it super easy). Lacking a pad like on my Trident cards makes things incovenient, I had to shove a wire directly to ISA slot, but if there is a pad (that isn't connected) it will be very easy to solder a wire to its top as seen here : http://www.tmeeco.eu/BitShit/FlashAndSRAMcart.jpg
That BIOS function makes things mech easier, just got to know what particular INTx line your card is connected to and hope there aren't other cards signalling ints there. Each slot changes order of the INTA/B/C/D lines so depending on what slot your card is in the PCI INT assigment will change. i.e one slot has ABCD order, second slot BCDA, another CDAB and then DABC and things start over and some cards will then share INT line at that point. Another option would be just to use the IRQ that BIOS assigned if it did. The assignment should stay static as long as no new hardware is added, though this won't help with any software explicitly wanting IRQ9.
MIDI or other sound stuff sitting on IRQ2/9 will most probably intefere too...
T-04YBSC, a new YMF71x based sound card & Official VOGONS thread about it
Newly made 4MB 60ns 30pin SIMMs ~
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