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Voodoo 3 3000 "digital video port"?

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First post, by Hamby

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So I saw this Voodoo 3 3000 boxed on ebay at what I think is a good price (shipping's a bit much), and on the back of the box I saw a picture of the card with captions pointing to and describing the various attributes of the card... and one line pointed to a set of pins at the top of the card that I thought all vga cards, even ISA had, and said "digital video port"...

So what is that exactly? Is it for connecting to another Voodoo 3? Is it for connecting some special DVI type output plug? Is it for connecting to an LCD display?

or is it just an unimplemented set of pins?

Reply 1 of 4, by rasz_pl

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VESA Advanced Feature Connector https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_connector
This video card connector used for?

https://github.com/raszpl/FIC-486-GAC-2-Cache-Module for AT&T Globalyst
https://github.com/raszpl/386RC-16 memory board
https://github.com/raszpl/440BX Reference Design adapted to Kicad
https://github.com/raszpl/Zenith_ZBIOS MFM-300 Monitor

Reply 2 of 4, by BinaryDemon

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Some Voodoo3 models were starting to experiment with using a DVI output, googling seems to show most of these were Voodoo3 3500 series but doesn’t seem like it was fully DVI compliant (DVI-A?). Could it have been one of those models you were looking at?

Reply 3 of 4, by rasz_pl

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BinaryDemon wrote:

Some Voodoo3 models were starting to experiment with using a DVI output, googling seems to show most of these were Voodoo3 3500 series but doesn’t seem like it was fully DVI compliant (DVI-A?). Could it have been one of those models you were looking at?

3500 is not dvi https://www.vogonswiki.com/index.php/Voodoo_3_3500_VGA

https://github.com/raszpl/FIC-486-GAC-2-Cache-Module for AT&T Globalyst
https://github.com/raszpl/386RC-16 memory board
https://github.com/raszpl/440BX Reference Design adapted to Kicad
https://github.com/raszpl/Zenith_ZBIOS MFM-300 Monitor

Reply 4 of 4, by BinaryDemon

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Ah P&D, I couldn’t remember the alternate digital output specification. I bet OP was looking at one of these models.

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