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cs30841
01-24-2001, 02:36 PM
I dont know if they make these or not but i have a old cga monitor and would like to see if there is a card out there that i could get to get this working as a monitor on my 486 Compaq Porsignia VS. im using this a a gateway/firewall for my home network. it has i think ISA slots but im not sure. they are long and brown and the modem that is in it chips face up. i think it might be EISA but i dont really know. but i was wondering if there was any thing i could get to put in there to get this monitor working.
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Well, I pretty much dislike ebay most of the time for buying, and can't see spending $12 for a CGA card, but here's a last resort option. http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1210157130
You can probably find someone selling an old 286 at a garage sell or a thrift shop or something that would have one too.. Or, someone on LNO might have on, you should ask there ... oh yeah, this is LNO
cs30841
01-25-2001, 09:44 AM
Would that card work in my box? It doesnt say what type of card it is. im new to hardware stuff. like i said the slots in this thing are long brown and the card that is in it has pins not the normal looking stuff that just slides in.
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FoBoT
01-25-2001, 10:56 AM
ISA EISA and VESA LB slots can all accept ISA cards.
any cga video card you find would probably be ISA, although i guess if you found the right museum, you could get a VLB or EISA CGA card, but i doubt it
that being a compaq my guess is you are describing a VLB slot, but when you say it has pins on the "sides" i am not sure
can't be MCA because only IBM did that
this site
http://venus.spaceports.com/~canada/webhq/database.html
has many diagrams of different mobo's
see if you can find something like what you have and let us know
[This message has been edited by FoBoT (edited 25 January 2001).]