Intel 486 stuff

[swampdonkey]

Hi all,
I have an intel 486 computer. It has a 25mhz cpu and 32megs of ram on a UM 486V AIO motherboard. I actually have the manual! The computer also has a 250 MB hard drive with windows 95.
Currently, I have installed an old S3 2meg video card that is inserted in 2 ports, and isa, and what seems to be a smaller isa type port. There are no PCI slots on the motherboard. I have a Diamond Stealth 4 MB video card that was installed on my 200mhz pentium 1 before it shorted out. Now, the video card still works, but it is a PCI card. My question is, is there anyway I can use the card with the 486? Is there some kind of isa to pci adapter?
Any suggestions?

thanks,
~swampdonkey

[swampdonkey]

not sure if this should be in the video card section.....

[GaryRouth]

I've never heard of such an adapter. Even if such a strange thing ever existed, I can't imagine it would improve things over the current 2mb S3 card. A 2mb video card is pretty good for a 486.
. . . Gary

[. . . of course, if someone gave you another 486 motherboard with an early version of the PCI bus (I had PCI on my 486), that would let you use the Diamond :) ]

[glc]

Is the port in question a standard ISA port (black) with a brown extension - making for a real long card? If so, that's VL (Vesa Local) Bus, and every bit as fast as a PCI card. Keep what you have in there.