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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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