Re: Weird cards found inside Dell Dimension M233a
Posted on 2024-04-24, 07:04
Found that CL card on ebay and some German site. According to that it is ASTRA ACM-602. So far can't find any specific drivers for it 😒
Re: Weird cards found inside Dell Dimension M233a
Posted on 2024-04-22, 08:50
Those CL cards are working.... sort of :-) Anytime when one of these are in isa slot then signal from integrated vga is disappearing. When pull it out then integrated vga gives signal again. Seems like that cards are overriding signal or disabling integrated vga card. Would be great having cable …
Re: Weird cards found inside Dell Dimension M233a
Posted on 2024-04-22, 08:48
finding the pinout for the twin GD5428 card seems to be as simple as reading the datasheet for it and doing a multimeter continuity measurement. If the signals are capacitively coupled you 'll need to do it in two or more parts. page 42 , 3-10 , https://datasheetspdf.com/pdf-down/C/L/-/CL-GD542x_ …
Re: Weird cards found inside Dell Dimension M233a
Posted on 2024-04-21, 07:45
Those CL cards are working.... sort of :-) Anytime when one of these are in isa slot then signal from integrated vga is disappearing. When pull it out then integrated vga gives signal again. Seems like that cards are overriding signal or disabling integrated vga card. Would be great having cable …
Re: Weird cards found inside Dell Dimension M233a
Posted on 2024-04-21, 07:38
The dual Cirrus Logic card might be usable as an ordinary VGA card as there is a VGA BIOS ROM which likely inits one of the chips. Assuming that it is the case, then it would be a question mapping which pins are used for its RGBHV output. I suspect that card works that way or there would be no easy …
Re: Weird cards found inside Dell Dimension M233a
Posted on 2024-04-21, 07:34
Looks like a system with previous industrial use... ...top two pics are likely data acquisition cards (488.2 on the bottom one refers to IEEE 488.2) Would guess multi-chip CL cards are for some form of associated multi-monitor display, probably on breakout cables from the 37 pin d-sub connector. …
Re: Weird cards found inside Dell Dimension M233a
Posted on 2024-04-20, 00:06
The cards with the Cirrus Logic chips are multi-display adapters. GD5428 VGA controllers (with build-in RAMDAC) with 1MB each. As there was no native OS support for multi-display when this stuff was new, it will have relied on specific application software. So they might be useless as I don't have …
Re: Weird cards found inside Dell Dimension M233a
Posted on 2024-04-20, 00:05
Tripredacus wrote on 2024-04-19, 20:43: First one is Dual port RS232. Model on the card, PC248H https://www.mev.co.uk/pages/Software-Design/Serial.html There might be useful information on the opposite side of the cards. I just checked the back of the card and nothing there.
Re: Weird cards found inside Dell Dimension M233a
Posted on 2024-04-19, 07:05
Hi all, Need help with identification of some cards which I've found inside of Dell Dimension M233a. Never seen anything like it before, especially those two ISA cards with two Cirrus Logic GD5428 processors on each card and 37 pin d-sub connector ??? Also another cards which I have no clue what it …
Weird cards found inside Dell Dimension M233a
Posted on 2024-04-19, 03:38
Hi all, Need help with identification of some cards which I've found inside of Dell Dimension M233a. Never seen anything like it before, especially those two ISA cards with two Cirrus Logic GD5428 processors on each card and 37 pin d-sub connector ??? Also another cards which I have no clue what it …
Re: Did I just broke it ???? GeForce 2 GTS
Posted on 2023-07-01, 19:32
It's a quadro 3 though so its closer to a TI200. Its not as strong as a TI500 or a Vanilla GF3. What's the difference between quadro 3 and ti500 ? I found pics on Google and can't see the difference hmmm is it only bios or something ? The differene is in memory and core clock, but you can probably …
Re: Did I just broke it ???? GeForce 2 GTS
Posted on 2023-07-01, 19:14
It seems like GF3....
Re: Did I just broke it ???? GeForce 2 GTS
Posted on 2023-07-01, 19:05
Warlord wrote on 2023-07-01, 18:52: It's a quadro 3 though so its closer to a TI200. Its not as strong as a TI500 or a Vanilla GF3. What's the difference between quadro 3 and ti500 ? I found pics on Google and can't see the difference hmmm is it only bios or something ?
Re: Did I just broke it ???? GeForce 2 GTS
Posted on 2023-07-01, 18:46
Warlord wrote on 2023-07-01, 18:43: how much heat did you apply before prying it off? oh and that looks like a GF3. GF3 ? Hmmm even better. Fingers crossed its not dead or something.
Re: Did I just broke it ???? GeForce 2 GTS
Posted on 2023-07-01, 18:43
Warlord wrote on 2023-07-01, 18:43: how much heat did you apply before prying it off? That's the thing. No heat at all 😀
Re: Did I just broke it ???? GeForce 2 GTS
Posted on 2023-07-01, 18:42
I think I got gf4 mx400 but not sure about mx440. I just found this but not sure what it is but it looks really good.
Re: Did I just broke it ???? GeForce 2 GTS
Posted on 2023-07-01, 18:23
I know it looks nice and beautiful seeing it in this kind of a unique, never seen before view/condition 😁 Not very happy really but hey. Now I need to dig in my old collection of hardware and find something nice as a replacement 😀
Re: Did I just broke it ???? GeForce 2 GTS
Posted on 2023-07-01, 17:26
PD2JK wrote on 2023-07-01, 17:21: Put it back and heat up the oven. 😉 Yeah I think this one is doomed. Never seen it in this 'shape' btw. Yea, it looks nice 😀 Anyway I might try heating it back again but using heat gun instead and see what happen. Nothing to loose now !!
Did I just break it ???? GeForce 2 GTS
Posted on 2023-07-01, 17:19
Hi all, Not 100% sure but I think I just broke my GeForce 2 GTS. Tried to take glued heatsink off and...... this is what has happened.... Seems like graphics core separated from pcb ? Tell me if I'm wrong...
Re: ECS P5VX-B Rev 1.2 not working.... any ideas please??
Posted on 2023-06-24, 12:15
Put the card backwards in isa slot and that's the result...
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