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How much memory is it on this ET6000?

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First post, by brostenen

Posted on 2017-03-03, 14:02

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So. I recieved that ET6000 that I bought, and I had to do some soldering work.
Change a cap, and solder some components back into place, and behold, it
is working without any trouble. Gives 66.6 in 3d-bench 1.0 on a 5x86-133.

What struck me, is that with all memory populated, it reports 2mb.
I thought it was 4mb, so I need to ask if it is reporting the wrong amount.
I hope that there is nothing wrong, and it is indeed 2mb all in all.

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Reply 1 of 3, by sprcorreia

Posted on 2017-03-03, 14:16

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Each 908 chip is 1MB. 909 is 1.125MB. Total should be 4.25MB but maybe it doesn't like to be mixed or still has some fault. You can try to remove the modules and check the card.

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Reply 2 of 3, by kixs

Posted on 2017-03-03, 14:18

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You have two chips (MD908) with 1MB and another two (MD909) with 1.125MB. Total = 4.25MB. Although ET6000 can use maximum of 4MB.

Requests are also possible... /msg kixs

Reply 3 of 3, by brostenen

Posted on 2017-03-03, 14:24

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Hmm.... That might be what is wrong. I will try and remove those two chips and see what will happen.

By the way... I would not recommend an ET6000, to someone wanting to build a good 486/P1 machine.
As I understand it, it is not 100% DOS-Compatible, and it is making those vertical spaghetti lines.
66.6 might be good, might be bad. I still think that CL-5446/Trio64v+/Virge-325 are better cards.

EDIT:
Yeah.... Googling the card with image search. None of the cards have mixed memory chips.
100% confident that I did a good job on soldering after all. Bringing this card back to life.

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