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- From: gac2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Geoffrey A. Coulter)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: A.I.R. Motherboard
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.145728.1023@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 14:57:28 GMT
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- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
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- Hello netters:
-
- I have a motherboard I need more information about. It is made by
- Advanced Integration Research (I think), it is a 486/50, EISA, Local
- Bus, AMI BIOS. It calls itself a 486EO, and says 1992 Ver 1.1. I
- need to know if the local bus slot is VESA compatible. It seems
- possible, but I would like to know before I invest in an ATI GUPro.
- And I would appreciate a phone number if you could scrape one up.
-
- Now, the approximate age of the board puts it at the leading edge of
- the VL bus time frame; there is a handwritten number on it, 102, which
- may be its serial number; the manual was for an older model (EISA
- only), and made no reference to a local bus slot;the intermediary I
- bought it from said it was VESA compatible, but I'm not sure I trust
- them. Those are the straws I am clutching at.
-
- I have no idea what a VL bus slot looks like, but I will describe
- this, and if it looks nothing like one, at least proof extending one
- direction will exist. After a normal looking full-length slot, there
- is a little space (an inch?) and then a continuation of the slot,
- about as long as an eight-bit slot, maybe a little shorter. This
- extension has a break in it like a normal 16-bit slot, about a third
- of the way along. Sorry for the lack of clarity, but perhaps the
- diagram will help.
-
- !===============!==========! !=====!========!
-
- So, is this proprietary, or am I in luck?
-
- Geoffrey Coulter
- gac2@ellis.uchicago.edu
-