Re: Electrolytic caps and 8 bit cards

Hello "thewises" :-)


"thewises" <thewises@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

Of course, when I heard it was not worth replacing bad capacitors, they
were talking about newer motherboards. Say my Compaq, which blew three
capacitors, would not have been worth fixing.


Why not?


It probably wouldn't work anyway, since I noticed that the
AST Six-Pak in this thing has a memory chip that's pushed up out of
the socket (one of the legs on the chip is bent). That would almost
certainly fail the memory check.



??? Bend it back, shove it back in. No big deal.

Maybe so.


If it's a DIPP or something similar, like an old cache chip that used to
populate 386 and 486 boards, it's no problem. I have straightened bazillions
of 'em. Those legs are pretty tough.

16 bit slots are compatible with 8 bit cards. This is not a problem.
Shove it in, it will work fine.

I didn't say the card wasn't compatible, I said that the CGA card would
physically not fit in a 16-bit slot because of the way it was shaped.
Why do you think that 286 and up PCs often had 8-bit slots? It was for
these cards that wouldn't fit in the 16-bit slots. Both my 386 and my
Pentium have only 16-bit slots, thus I can not put the CGA card in
either of them.


Whaaaaattt ? ¿¿ ?

If you are referring to the "16 bit extension" of the 16 bit slot, this will
be ignored by the 8bit card, and the computer. I have never seen an 8 bit
card that could not be inserted into a 16 bit slot.

If however your card has a physical appendage that would "hang into" the 16
bit portion of the 16 bit bus slot, *that* would be a problem. :-) I
assume now that is what you mean. Be interesting to see a picture of that.
Dumb design.

Now that I think about it, I have seen that.


I once saw a Pentium motherboard with an 8-bit slot. I wasn't aware that
any Pentium boards still had them (thought that 486 boards were the last
ones)


NOW THAT I would LOVE to see a picture of !!! Spectacular. I didn't know
that existed. But then, 2 years ago, when I was tinkering with Socket 4
boards ( my winter project theme that year. I always have a "theme" for
winter tinkering. :-) ) I found a Socket 4 board with VESA slots ! I
thought that was semi amazing, until I found a Socket 5 board with VESA
slots ! I still have those motherboards. Matter of fact, the Socket 4 board
is a NOS piece. Quite unique.

I should check my collection. I have at least 100+ motherboards, and might
even have a Pentium board with an 8 bit slot. Don't remember one though.....

bob


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