What do PCI boards do?

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Someone listed a Prometheus PCI board he's selling on ebay on the ImageFX discussion list, and I looked at the stats he linked to. But I have a question about PCI overall, since it's a board that can go in my A3000.

What kind of cards go on a busboard like prometheus?

Does it replace the daughterboard currently in the A3000D? Or does it attach to the daughterboard?

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amije wrote:
prometheus is attached to the daughterboard, so you need an a3000T or an a3000D in tower. you can add pci vga as voodoo, soundblaster 128 or live, realtech network card, probably but not sure yet cheap usb card (depends on the openpci software).
in general, prometheus have some dma problems so not all cards working ok with it. recently e3b has been in charge to update the firmware and solve dma probs. post

Ah, well, I have the A3000D, so thanks for saving me some trouble. I was wondering how that would fit in that case! :-D

Are you saying that you can use regular PC cards like soundblaster or VGA, or are they specifically made for the PCI board?

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Currently it lets me use a cheap voodoo 3 video card and a $10 8039 based nic card to browse the internet over broadband using miami TCPIP. It also supports Voodoo 4,5 and S3 VirgeGX cards. (Not VirgeDX) There is a firmware update being worked on that will allow other DMA based PCI cards to be used.

[color=ffa500]Wow!![/color][/i], that's such a neat concept! The possiblities!!

The drivers are on Aminet, I assume. :eureka:

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What a great discussion. It's amazing what you can learn. :popcorn: