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If the monitor is 365-1095,  365-1112, 365-1160 and
the rev on the 1645 is <04 then the monitor sense code is
not decoded. Try Powering up and then removing and
reconnecting the video cable. If this solves it then you have
an old rev CG6.


Craig Dewick wrote:

> In <6qr54h$3ik@newsops.execpc.com> Paul Hanson <phanson@execpc.com> writes:
>
> >I received a SS1+ today with a dual Sbus framebuffer Sun Part Number
> >501-1645  Can anyone identify this card?  I am guessing it is a CG6 with
> >4mb... It has 32 memory chips.
>
> Hi Paul, that's a dual-slot cg6 framebuffer.
>
> >Problem  .... When I power up the system, the video output on the
> >monitor is a very small grid pattern or checkerboard multi color (kind
> >of like the houndstooth interior cloth in a 69 Camaro), and doesn't
> >appear to change... No wording is recognisable on the screen...  Could
> >this be the wrong sync to the monitor?, can it be changed? Is the video
> >card junk?
>
> What monitor are you using? A standard Sun monitor?
>
> >I threw a CG3 card in the SS1+ box and everything powers up fine (the
> >other framebuffer was removed at the time).
>
> It's probably the framebuffer then. Both the cg3 and the cg6 output
> identical video signals, so the monitor should work with both, although I
> don't know if cg3's abd the early cg6's use monitor sense codes.
>
> Regards,
>
> Craig.
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