Radius Full Page Display

[Apostrophe]

I have a Macintosh SE with a Radius Full Page Display card installed (well, it's not in right now, but I'll put it back in once I give the SE some RAM). After doing some research, I can deduce that it is used to connect to an external monitor.

Just wondering out of pure curiosity, when the SE is on with the card installed, will the card still produce heat and electricity even if there's no external monitor attached?

-Apostrophe

 

[elbaroni]

I'm not sure if this applies in this case, but I remember Arthur Naiman in an early edition of the Macintosh Bible saying that Mac II class machines would act as though there was a second monitor attached as long as there was a card in a slot.

Initially I thought (without having any actual *basis* for my suspicion) that NuBus video cards are supported at a lower level than an SE cards, perhaps therefore meaning that an SE card wouldn't turn on without the system being specifically told by driver software that it was there, but I remembered that my SE/30 recognises its video card without any software at all. My bet is that yes, it still does even when a monitor isn't connected.

 

[Apostrophe]

Ok, thanks.

What I'm going to do...that card comes in two parts: the part in the computer's main compartment, with the port on the outside of the SE, and then the part that connects to the logic board, that in turn connects to the other card. Right now I have a hole in the back of the SE where the port should go, so what I'll do is just put in the 'port part' but leave out the 'logic board part.' The 'logic board part' is REALLY tough to get in and out, so I'll just leave it out. I won't be using an external monitor anyway, so the 'port part' that I leave in will not have a charge running through it since I'm leaving out the 'logic board part.' That way, the hole is plugged with the port, and due to the lack of its connecting counterpart on the logic board, it won't produce any electricity or heat!

-Apostrophe

 

[Torbar]

Why bother taking out the card, its not like leaving it in is gonna cause a huge power draw on the SE, or alot of heat.

 

[Apostrophe]

No, I mean it's already out.

I took apart both of my SE's to pinpoint the problem in one of them (refer to my other posts in this forum) and to slide out the logic board in one of them, I had to remove both Radius cards. One is MUCH tougher than the other, and so that one, since it's already out, I'll leave out. The second one I'll screw back in so that it can plug up the hole at the back of the SE, and yet it will have nothing to connect to logic board-wise, so it won't produce any heat or electricity.

-Apostrophe