okay, every video card I've had has these little pins all over them, like I'm supposed to plug in some great external hardware to it, but I don't know what! Can I plug a ribon into this and into something else and make some use out of it?
Need more info.... what kind of card? If its too old, it my be jumpers for setting IRQ, DMA, etc. Modern cards are Plug 'n' Play and usually dont have such things for setting IRQ's and such.... !Advice! DONT plug anything in it until u know what it does, I may explode and take out the nieghborhood
Need more info.... what kind of card? If its too old, it may be jumpers for setting IRQ, DMA, etc. Modern cards are Plug 'n' Play and usually dont have such things for setting IRQ's and such.... !Advice! DONT plug anything in it until u know what it does, I may explode and take out the nieghborhood sorry for the double post......
i think i know what you mean. theyre usually test ports that the manufacturer uses to test the cards before packagaing and shipping. they may well plug a ribbon cable into these pins and their hardware wil then display some de-bugging information which tells them how the card is operating and if it has past their quality control tests etc etc.
Could be all sorts of things...there have often been connectors, which changed over the years... Example....my 1991 Western Digital 1MB graphics card (yes, western digital made graphics chips in those days, and 1MB was a LOT) also had parallel I/O and IDE controller on it (motherboards didn't have them in those days). So that's what the connectors were. My 1997 Diamond Fire and Appian Jeronimo cards have small ribbon connectors on to connect to MPEG decoder cards, for MPEG playback. Only 3dfx Voodoo 2 cards had connectors for SLI. Most of what people will have seen will be MPEG connectors probably.
/me examines gf2s yep these have got them on . . . /me attempts to look at gf3 that is in use i give up to much cooling stuff round there to seeif there r pins but guessing from the top of it id guess there r pins on it
Ive always wondered the same thing too, until one day i was fixing a clients system and saw he had two video cards, and they were linked together with that same set of pins.. weird setup.. -scoob8000
that means theyre linked in SLI...for example, a pair of voodoo 2 cards will work together when linked in SLI. It means that one card draws on line on the screen, then the other card draws the next line on the screen, and so on... its a form of parallel processing, in theory you should get twice the performance this way
but only the voodoo2 could do that (afaik) and u cant get dual agp ports on a pc so what r they 4 now? i think u can get tv tuner boards 4 some cards and mpeg decoders 4 others
yeah those and like i said before, most of them are test ports that the manufacturer uses to probe the card for debugging etc
hers something not to do my french friend trieed connecting a tv tuner card to his gf2, he didn't have the right cable so his clever idea was to use an old ide cable to connect the 2 together. ooopsie, it fried
