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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Turbo Graphic board swap?
- Message-ID: <nsnrueg@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 01:46:35 GMT
- References: <noboong@zuni.esd.sgi.com> <1992Jul27.105710.25767@news.uni-stuttgart.de> <1529ebINNr4c@agate.berkeley.edu> <2825@contex.contex.com>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In <2825@contex.contex.com> frank@marvin.contex.com (Frank Perdicaro) writes:
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- | In article <1529ebINNr4c@agate.berkeley.edu> dasilva@mies.ced.berkeley.edu (Ruieta Da Silva) writes:
- | >Does anyone know how to take a turbo graphics option board from
- | >one 25TG and put it in another 25? I hear that there are some
- | >resistors to cut, etc. Also how would you pull it out?
- | >
- | Contrary to Dave O's note, some early PIs do not have the required,
- | soldered on tapped standoffs on the main graphics board and thus
- | cannot get a turbo upgrade without a swap of the graphics board. This
- | is unlikely, but has happened more than once to me.
-
- My note was in response to *SWAPPING* the graphics boards as a unit,
- not to grabbing pieces from one board and putting them on the other.
- Since several people seem to have misread my response, I thought I'd
- better follow this up. Do *NOT* try to mix and match. Several of the
- boards and chips have rev dependencies. It may work, it may not.
-
- Of course, if you change graphics board types, you probably need
- to reinstall software to match the different type, as well (with
- 'set neweroverride'!)
- --
- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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