Now question to 286/386 users. What kind of card this is?

Bottom card looks like a Soundblaster Pro 2. Top card is a VGA/EGA card, probably OTI-067 or ET4000AX.

Definately no...this is kinda older equipment. Remember this picture is taken out of 286 16Mhz

Who has used Paint as a bad photoshop job on that picture? 🤣

vetz wrote:

Who has used Paint as a bad photoshop job on that picture? 🤣

ME 😈 this is quick surgery in pain(t), actually this item is for sale and there was sellers name on it, so I won't use this photo without his permission, so just use it without his name, just to show what's question about 😀

It is a VGA card... My EV-673 is just like that at the back. VGA had a 9 Pin connector when it first came out. Others used it as a means to connect with other devices (don't ask me what, I've never figured it out). Some cards even did have output for an EGA monitor as well though, so it could be any of the above.

The DIP Switch is used to set refresh rates or resolution or some such... Can't remember because mine is working so I just leave it alone.

Yes, the card with dip switch will be 100% VGA, the 9pin output for monochromatic monitors and conventional 15pin VGA connector as well. I like this! Curious what's exact model of it! Other card is far from SB Pro2, I know that this 286 comes from Germany, so anyone from that country will maybe discover it easier with finding proper names to those extension cards

I'd say an ET3000 for the video card.

Second the ET3000. Only ISA card I could find on vgamuseum.info with two different D-Sub outputs and a (blue) block of DIP switches between them, see http://vgamuseum.info/index.php/component/k2/ … -tseng-et3000ax

Cirrus seem more common in European machines to me.

Going with a Cirrus 510/520 or 610/620 by the age the connectors imply. There was certainly a model with that layout, though I remember it being a red dip switch.

133MHz wrote:

I'd say an ET3000 for the video card.

idspispopd wrote:

Second the ET3000

Well done! Tseng ET3000 this is it, 512kB memory, EGA and VGA. Start like it for my scrap 286 build, because I don't have monochromatic screen right now or any 9pin to 15vga adapter..i saw somwhere on the web actually easy scheme for adapter but will be easier to buy proper card.
Anyone will try of discover name for the audio card?

HighTreason wrote:

VGA had a 9 Pin connector when it first came out.

I've never heard of VGA using a 9pin connector. Do you have any examples of this? It is my understanding that when IBM originally developed the VGA standard and the first cards, they specifically chose a more dense connector because 1) VGA signalling with V/H-sync required more than 9 pins, and 2) to prevent someone from inadvertently plugging in an analog 0.7V VGA display into a 5V TTL CGA/EGA/MDA source and frying their video hardware.

Godlike wrote:

Anyone will try of discover name for the audio card?

Hmm... too generic. Both SB 1.x/2.0 as well as SB Pro uses brackets with identical port spacing. We'd need to see more.

QBiN wrote:

Godlike wrote:

Anyone will try of discover name for the audio card?

Hmm... too generic. Both SB 1.x/2.0 as well as SB Pro uses brackets with identical port spacing. We'd need to see more.

I have a Vibra 16 with that same type of back panel, so it really doesnt narrow it down at all.

jmannik wrote:

QBiN wrote:

Godlike wrote:

Anyone will try of discover name for the audio card?

Hmm... too generic. Both SB 1.x/2.0 as well as SB Pro uses brackets with identical port spacing. We'd need to see more.

I have a Vibra 16 with that same type of back panel, so it really doesnt narrow it down at all.

CT????
@QBiN; unfortunately no pictures of inside, this auction and no specs of picture of inside

On old compaq (a real beauty - and a very smart construction....) without any life

Without drives and power...

Mainboard....

The heart of gold

and finally: tadaa (i was able to replace some power cells to get access to the bios and also replace the hdd with an other old one out of my collection , but i'm not happy yet, because the drive's parameters the bios offers does not fit exactly to the replacement-drive and i do not know, how to set them manually)

there is still work to do (additional: the floppy is not working (transmission belt is gone))

Godlike wrote:

jmannik wrote:

QBiN wrote:

I have a Vibra 16 with that same type of back panel, so it really doesnt narrow it down at all.

CT????
@QBiN; unfortunately no pictures of inside, this auction and no specs of picture of inside

I will find out after work tonight for you.

Excellent, thank you

Got a heap of LS120 disks this week at a good price. Today I transferred all the 286s 52meg hdd files to an LS120 disk using xcopy. One of a number one backup option.

Godlike wrote:

Excellent, thank you

CT2501-TDQ
I should read up on it and see if its one of the ones with the hanging bug I guess...

QBiN wrote:

HighTreason wrote:

VGA had a 9 Pin connector when it first came out.

I've never heard of VGA using a 9pin connector. Do you have any examples of this? It is my understanding that when IBM originally developed the VGA standard and the first cards, they specifically chose a more dense connector because 1) VGA signalling with V/H-sync required more than 9 pins, and 2) to prevent someone from inadvertently plugging in an analog 0.7V VGA display into a 5V TTL CGA/EGA/MDA source and frying their video hardware.

My first Vga monitor had a 9 pin D connector on the monitor end of it's detatchable cable. I suspect it was so a suitable cable could be attached to other computer types such as the Acorn A3000s.

Here's a link to 9 pin vga pin out http://old.pinouts.ru/VideoCables/9to15VGA_pinout.shtml 9 pins are all that's needed for VGA.

Also a bit of further reading http://www.dansdata.com/gz061.htm