Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!cbnewsh!rkl From: rkl@cbnewsh.att.com (kevin.laux) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Tha extra connector on a VGA card... Message-ID: <1991Mar12.141855.484@cbnewsh.att.com> Date: 12 Mar 91 14:18:55 GMT References: Distribution: usa Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 20 In article , cac@iear.arts.rpi.edu (Christopher A. Cox) writes: > > Could someone out there please tell me what that extra card edge > connector is that is on teh top edge of most VGA cards? What can I do > with it? Just curious...one of those nasty little things I wonder about > whenever I work on the machine and notice it again, but no one ever > seems to know why. Nasty? Naw...It's the Video Feature connector. It is used to feed the VGA on to other boards that will do downstream keying as in the Sony 3081 Video Overlay board or Intel's ActionMedia 750 (DVI) boardset. It can also be used in say, portables with built in VGA monitors, as this will provide an internal connector for the monitor instead of using the external connector (and routing a cable back inside :-)). There are other uses too. -- ________________________________________________________________________________ R. Kevin Laux Email: rkl1@hound.att.com AT&T Bell Labs Voice: (908) 949-1160 Holmdel, NJ 07733 Fax: (908) 949-0959