Searching for manual/jumper settings for Spea V/ Mercury (V4.10) ISA Bus \ VOGONS

Searching for manual/jumper settings for Spea V/ Mercury (V4.10) ISA Bus

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First post, by Marco

Posted on 2024-04-12, 08:44

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Dear all,

I am looking for a manual for above mentioned card.
I could just find sth for VLB / PCI versions but not for the ISA version.

Someone out there with more luck? Thanks a lot

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Reply 1 of 4, by dominusprog

Posted on 2024-04-12, 14:37

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The jumper is most likely selecting between color and B/W output.

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Reply 2 of 4, by Marco

Posted on 2024-04-12, 17:10

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I tried them out. No B/W. Having one disabled leads to fully broken picture no matter which video mode. It even seems then sensitive to isa bus speed as it increases the pixel errors. Having this one enabled all ok. The other switch no idea since no noticeable change.

The only jumper seems to be factory default. As soon as I change it the system won’t boot

Reply 3 of 4, by Nelson68k

Posted on 2025-03-07, 19:51

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Hi, my SPEA Mercury has a defect (very hot) BIOS IC. Does anyone have the bios file?

Reply 4 of 4, by Predator99

Posted on 2025-12-19, 09:37

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I got the same card as on the picture on the top today. The card on the picture seems to be very corroded, no surprise it does not work?

I have dumped the BIOS, note its only 256 k and doubled in the file.

Quadtel S3 86C928/Bt485 Enhanced VGA BIOS. Version 2.13.02
Copyright 1987-1992 Quadtel Corp., A Phoenix Technologies Ltd Company.
V7-MERCURY BIOS version 4.01
Copyright 1993, SPEA/Videoseven
08/19/9308/19/93

The attachment V7 Mercury ISA 4.01.rar is no longer available

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