Need help identifying this Micron Xceed card

[candoit]

Can't tell exactly which model it is. My guess is that it's a Color30 or a MacroColor30, but I don't know how to tell just looking at it. Any help appreciated.

FCC ID is F5R0369, P/N 250 - 0369 - 010 rev. D

 

[JDW]

I posted a similar question recently (go to that thread, then search for JDW -- it's my 2nd post).

My intent was to learn how to spot a card that would function in the SE/30 as a grayscale setup. Sadly, no one would answer me as I had hoped.

It never ceases to amaze me just how much interest there is for video cards that even the most savvy among us know so little about!!

8-o

My guess is that you could have an Xceed Color 30. I based this on the B&W drawing on page 1-3 in the Xceed Color 30 manual. It looks quite similar to your card.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

My intent was to learn how to spot a card that would function in the SE/30 as a grayscale setup. Sadly, no one would answer me as I had hoped.

It never ceases to amaze me just how much interest there is for video cards that even the most savvy among us know so little about!!

8-o

Yep! There's such a huge variety of Mac Video Cards that it's really hard to get a handle on it. IMHO, it's because of all the different interfaces Apple went thru and all the workarounds that mfrs had to come up with to get around Apple's intentional limitations at the mid and lower ends of their product offerings.

Though I expect it's not a lot better on the PC Side of things, especially in their PDS era! )

 

[wally]

 

[cangrande]

Here is a flickr set of my (since sold) XCeed Color 30HR, which looks like the one in question. Micron bought Xceed at some point, it looks like.


JDW, if I'm remembering correctly, Micron/Xceed made a bunch of SE/30 video cards, only some of which could use the greyscale adapter, and the thing to look for is the second multiprong connector on the card. See the white 10-pin connector on the bottom center of the card? (Second photo) That's what the greyscale adapter attaches to. The black one to its right connects the external video plug which replaces the knock-out at the back of the computer. If the card doesn't have the white one, it is external video only.

Sadly, that SE/30's capacitors died right after I took the screenshots above, and I haven't had time to fix it yet. Though I just had to replace the faulty capacitors in my iMac G5

so I'm in practice now, at least

 

[candoit]

So I can take for granted that the card I posted in question is an XCeed Color 30HR, and that the white 10-pin connector is for a greyscale adapter?

Somewhere on line I saw a post by someone that made their own greyscale adapter with a clear schematic and instructions, but can't find it. Anyone know if it?

Thanks again.

 

[Gary_W]

I have this site in my bookmark list:

http://sites.google.com/site/micronxceed/

On it I noticed I even got a credit for the PDF's I made of the manuals. That wasn't too long ago, so it is being actively updated.

Let us know what they want for one of those!

Gary

 

[candoit]

Well, it's been about three years and I've done nothing with the card, and I don't think I will be. In fact, it's still resting on the dark foam shown in the photo.

Suggestions on what to do with it welcome.

 

[JDW]

Since it has been three years and since you've done absolutely nothing with the card, rather than letting it sit in a dark closet for all of eternity, I would suggest you consider one of two courses of action. You could consider building your own grayscale card to see if it would function properly with your PDS video card, giving you internal grayscale on SE/30. The second alternate is for you to part with the card; although the value of the card would be lower than one fully tested and known to actually function perfectly.

 

[wally]