>Thanks Bro. Follow the 8500 boards thread of the last few days. Look around
>for blank spots on the board as Jeff W. advised me to do. I have an odd 8500
>board, but it seems to be legit.
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>All the best,
>R.A. Cantre
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Where are these blank spots? at the back of the four vram slots?
There's a patch of mobo around 4" square with no chips there but I don't
see any outlines except for one between the VLSI and the Bt9055 Ramdac.
>The $77D.28F2 chips are labeled
>341S0168 through 341S0171. The 7500, 7600 and 8500s I've seen all
>use the F2 ROMs. And I've seen some of the F2 ROMs installed on
>7200s as well, strangely enough.
The roms are definitely F2....
>To answer his question from a later post, not quoted above (I'm on
>digest) look on the top of the board. If it's a 7500 or a 7600, near
>the center back of the board there will be two outlines for chips
>with no chips installed. If it's an 8500 the chips are installed.
>If they're not installed it's a 7500 or 7600. That's the only
>difference.
Are they the VLSI chips?
Pete
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