Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!decwrl!ogicse!pdxgate!eecs!erich From: erich@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Erich Stefan Boleyn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: '030/'040 Duality (multiple motherboards) Keywords: motherboard old cube Message-ID: <1875@pdxgate.UUCP> Date: 6 Mar 91 22:06:36 GMT References: <1991Feb25.022505.19878@cbnewse.att.com> <1872@pdxgate.UUCP> Sender: news@pdxgate.UUCP Lines: 33 Found some loose ends in the last posting... erich@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Erich Stefan Boleyn) writes: >SUMMARY: > Note: don't get the NBIC chip (or don't connect it), so that > they won't try to interact on the bus... Don't know about the NBIC chip... I read this from an old posting, I'll wait until I get my old cube (should be here in a couple of days). > 4) Either: make a monitor connector and hope that not having the > soundbox will be OK (which had some evidence to suggest it), but > not being able to plug in a keyboard to it again after turning > it on without interrupting the system, or > use a soundbox and make a keyboard connector with a > powerkey on it... this also should allow you to connect a > keyboard to it if you like (?) while its still running. Problem: using the power key powers up the whole machine... will powering up one of the two motherboards be enough (I assume trying to power up both would be confusing to the poor power supply). > Erich "I haven't lost my mind; I know exactly where it is." / -- Erich Stefan Boleyn -- \ --=> *Mad Genius wanna-be* <=-- { Honorary Grad. Student (Math) }--> Internet E-mail: \ Portland State University / >%WARNING: INTERESTED AND EXCITABLE%<