Stewpit Indy questions <:-/ - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

12 May 2006

On May 12 2006,  3:43, Jules Richardson wrote:
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  Gerhard Lenerz wrote:
 > Thursday, May 11, 2006, 8:28:43 PM, you wrote:
 >
 >> A large card ("Newport Graphics"?) but appears that 4 RAMs (?)
 >> were not populated at initial manufacture (which suggests it
 >> is a lower-end card?)
 >
 > Newport is XL graphics. If there is free space where memory would fit
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  > then it is 8bit otherwise 24 bit. You could also
try and google up the
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   part number
(the 030-xxxx-yyy number). 
 I seem to remember that it is possible to turn an 8-bit board into a 24-bit
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  one if you fancy some surface-mount soldering and have
a couple of surplus
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  8-bit boards for the chips...

 (Pete Turnbull will know more; I believe he's got a board that he put together
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  in such a way) 
Yes, I have a couple. When I got my own card back from an upgrade, I
set about working out what was changed, so one of the techs at work
could do a few more -- we had a lot of spare Indys at the time.  You
can see the results on my friend James Carter's webpage:

http://www.jfc.org.uk/documents/indy_gfx.html

The pictures, by the way, are from James' IndyCam :-)

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York