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Possible Micro Xceed card?

snuci

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I snagged this SE/30 off of eBay with a video problem (there is no video).  The back shows a possible Micro Xceed card but it is unlikely to have the internal gray scale.  The I think, maybe the gray scale CRT board fell off of the CRT neck.  Wishful thinking. 

A question I do have is if the board is enabled (as the switch indicates), does this blank out the screen and redirect video output to the output port of the video card?  Maybe that's why the screen is blank?

Any help is appreciated.

Xceed Mac SE30.jpg

 

Crutch

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Someone here will be able to identify that board from the photo I’m certain.  I can’t, but I can tell you that if you have a Micron Xceed Color 30, it will support both internal and external video at the same time (also it doesn’t have a switch like that, at least mine doesn’t).

 

ArmorAlley

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I have one of those (well, the back panel anyway) and mine is an XCEED SE/306-48. It's not of the magic 3 cards required to support internal greyscale.

I haven't tried mine out yet but since there is no internal port for video, I assume that you can either view the external monitor or view the internal B&W screen in the SE/30.

 
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BadGoldEagle

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I wonder why it would have a switch on the back if it couldn't do internal greyscale. Were Micron too cheap to make two backplates?

 
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Bolle

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This is the backpanel from a SE/306 card.

No internal grayscale on that one. The switch on the back is to tell the card if you have a monitor connected or not as there is no sense circuit on the card to detect a monitor.

The internal screen will always be on no matter if you have a monitor connected to the card or not.

If it doesn’t come on on the SE/30 you bought you will have a different problem with the logicboard or analogboard/screen.

 

snuci

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This is the backpanel from a SE/306 card.

No internal grayscale on that one. The switch on the back is to tell the card if you have a monitor connected or not as there is no sense circuit on the card to detect a monitor.

The internal screen will always be on no matter if you have a monitor connected to the card or not.

If it doesn’t come on on the SE/30 you bought you will have a different problem with the logicboard or analogboard/screen.


This is exactly what I was looking for.  Thanks for the replies.  I guess I have a new project on my hands.  

 

snuci

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Just to close this off, it was an Xceed SE-306/48 card.  Video was not working because the board on the CRT neck had fallen off and the glass tip on the CRT neck broke so the CRT was bad.  I was able to replace it woth spare parts and the SE/30 works great.  Have not tried the card yet but I am sure it's fine.

 
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