What kind of card is this?

[LadySlinger]

I have a card that is the same size as a PCI slot, but does not have any breaks during the point of insert (its one long piece of plastic).

I need a new computer that'll take it.

Thanks!

 

[gbaughma]

Can you post a picture of the card?



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[LadySlinger]

Here is a picture if it

 

[edfair]

From the picture it isn't anything to go in IBM PC compatibles. Everything PCish has cuts to clear the shroud.

You may luck out and have it seen by somebody that has used what appears to be of propriatory manufacture.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[LadySlinger]

Umm...it was in a PC Machine. I tried looking on the mother board to find out which slots they were called (you know how PCIs are marked PCI 1, PCI 2, etc), but there wasn't anything.

 

[kmcferrin]

OK. What printing is on the card itself? Just by looking at the size of the chips, the way they're connected, and the connectors at the bottom edge of the card it looks fairly old. It's definitely not AGP, doesn't look like ISA or VESA. I can't recall what MCA looks like.

What does the card do? What does the output on the back (it looks like it has an output on it) look like? What's connected to it?

 

[LadySlinger]

The 2 bigger chips in the upper right hand corner say "OKI Japan M82C54-2. The other chips al are GS I22, 9533, 9407 9436, 9316, 9538, 9527.

The white piece of paper at the bottom is actually a label that says

"Optical Beam Position & Power Measuring System Ver: 3.01. PN.13PSL001 SN.L200

 

[vacunita]

Could you take a Picture of the Slot in the current machine that the card plugs into?

What operating system was the machine running, If it was any POST win95 Windows, it might have some info in the Device Manager about the kid of slot it is.

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[LadySlinger]

The card was in the slots to the right of the screen. It fits nicely into the front portion of the slot, leaving the back portion opened.

 

[vacunita]

Well i'll be, correct me if I'm wrong, but those look like run of mill, ISA slots. I suspect its a particular kind of ISA card that does not require the additional slot space.

I suppose a standard ISA expansion card should suffice. As newer MOBOs no longer have built in ISA slots, to my knowledge.

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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.

 

[gbaughma]

Yup. ISA slots.

That card is an 8-bit ISA card. (thought it was... verified when I saw the inside of the computer).



Just my 2¢
-ARRGH! All my clothes are wrinkled! Oh, the irony!

--Greg

http://parallel.tzo.com

 

[edfair]

Agreed that it is an 8 bit ISA card based on what it plugs into. It looked like the card was continuous from bus to bracket but I see now it is a reflection of the flash from whatever is underneath.

It looks like you are dealing with something like a FIC2003 card, Pentium 1, up to 200mhz, 3 PCI, 4 ISA slots,
INTEL chipset. Can't see the memory. You'll probably need to buy a used board off ebay or from an upgrade shop.

And it probably is an AT power supply. That would fit with the time frame of the board.



Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[LadySlinger]

Thanks everyone!

Yea, sorry about that, I have a glass desk.

Hmm...OK I think I know what I need to do now. I was hoping to upgrade the computer (from Windows 95), but since that card is the only one we have rather than the USB version of it, I think I"ll just add a USB card to the machine.

This started because the printer died on them and the computer doesn't have any USBs...so I figure I would upgrade. Oh well...

 

[felixc]

The card you are mentioning is a custom-made ISA card, for an industrial usage. Are you using this system for desktop usage? What do you connect to this card?

 

[edfair]

So now to the next questions:

Printer problem or parallel port problem?

And what kind of printer? Can you find another with a parallel interface?

The reason I ask is because special applications often do data dumps to hardware ports. And the card is waving a red flag about a special application.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[LadySlinger]

A USB printer is fine. We have a couple of laptops that connect the card (yes for industry usage - it's custom made) through a PCMCIA slot and use a USB printer.