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07-15-2004, 10:12 PM
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Intel 486 stuff
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 |
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07-15-2004, 10:15 PM
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not sure if this should be in the video card section.....
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07-16-2004, 04:28 AM
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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  ]
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07-18-2004, 11:12 AM
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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.
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