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Upgrading Mainboard in Lecroy DDA-3000 (aka WavePro 7300a?)
sixtimesseven:
Currently I'm looking at an Asus mATX P8H61: https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P8H61M_LX/specifications/
I like it because:
- I have a unused i7-2600 and a i5-2400 in storage
- Lots of old DDR3 RAM
- Specs list a RGB LCD interface It's listed in the specs but I do not see it in the manual or on the board, hmm
darkstar49:
Using a standard mobo will force you to use an SDVO board, either AGP or PCIe, i.e. ADD- or ADD2 (I think all Lecroy SDVO cards were AGP).
And maybe I'm wrong, but the WR6K needs a 'legacy' PCI slot for the interface card, which the mentioned Asus board doesn't have...is this different for the WP7K ??
I've been using BCM boards in WR6K (like the RX67QV) and Kontron (KTGM45), but industrial mobos with legacy PCI are becoming harder and harder to get. :-(
(just like SDVO cards, when using 'standard' mobos). I've no experience with PCIe to PCI converters (for using the interface card with PCIe-only mobos).
Last but not least, the USB chip (Cypress) on the front panel has serious issues with recent mobos (USB 'incompatibilities') on the WR6K, but I think that is different on the WP7K.
sixtimesseven:
--- Quote from: darkstar49 on December 18, 2019, 08:15:39 am ---Using a standard mobo will force you to use an SDVO board, either AGP or PCIe, i.e. ADD- or ADD2 (I think all Lecroy SDVO cards were AGP).
And maybe I'm wrong, but the WR6K needs a 'legacy' PCI slot for the interface card, which the mentioned Asus board doesn't have...is this different for the WP7K ??
I've been using BCM boards in WR6K (like the RX67QV) and Kontron (KTGM45), but industrial mobos with legacy PCI are becoming harder and harder to get. :-(
(just like SDVO cards, when using 'standard' mobos). I've no experience with PCIe to PCI converters (for using the interface card with PCIe-only mobos).
Last but not least, the USB chip (Cypress) on the front panel has serious issues with recent mobos (USB 'incompatibilities') on the WR6K, but I think that is different on the WP7K.
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There are different PCI interfaces? They are not backward compatible like the PCIe 1,2,3 etc? The Asus board does have listed 1xPCI but I have not looked at the specifics. If so, what a pain... |O |O |O Is there something specific to look out for?
APG is only needed for the graphics as I understand it? So I'll circumfent that with a hdmi-ttl adapter to drive the orig. NEC display... As I understood it, the touchstone APG card will not work with any other bios than the D865glc anyway?
darkstar49:
--- Quote from: sixtimesseven on December 18, 2019, 08:32:07 am ---There are different PCI interfaces? They are not backward compatible like the PCIe 1,2,3 etc? The Asus board does have listed 1xPCI but I have not looked at the specifics. If so, what a pain... |O |O |O Is there something specific to look out for?
APG is only needed for the graphics as I understand it? So I'll circumfent that with a hdmi-ttl adapter to drive the orig. NEC display... As I understood it, the touchstone APG card will not work with any other bios than the D865glc anyway?
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well, there are different versions of PCI (33mhz, 5V, then 66mhz, 3.3v), but cards had different notches to prevent mixing things up...
But again, the Asus link provided points to a mobo that does NOT have a native PCI slot.
SDVO is a 'standard', but you're right saying that many BIOS's do not support it... having some ADD(2) card alone is only half the way to a solution, hence my preference for industrial boards with an LVDS connector.
sixtimesseven:
--- Quote from: darkstar49 on December 18, 2019, 09:35:00 am ---
--- Quote from: sixtimesseven on December 18, 2019, 08:32:07 am ---There are different PCI interfaces? They are not backward compatible like the PCIe 1,2,3 etc? The Asus board does have listed 1xPCI but I have not looked at the specifics. If so, what a pain... |O |O |O Is there something specific to look out for?
APG is only needed for the graphics as I understand it? So I'll circumfent that with a hdmi-ttl adapter to drive the orig. NEC display... As I understood it, the touchstone APG card will not work with any other bios than the D865glc anyway?
--- End quote ---
well, there are different versions of PCI (33mhz, 5V, then 66mhz, 3.3v), but cards had different notches to prevent mixing things up...
But again, the Asus link provided points to a mobo that does NOT have a native PCI slot.
SDVO is a 'standard', but you're right saying that many BIOS's do not support it... having some ADD(2) card alone is only half the way to a solution, hence my preference for industrial boards with an LVDS connector.
--- End quote ---
Ok, I see. There seem to be different sub-versions of the mobo and I linked the wrong one, sorry: https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P8H61M_LE_R20/specifications/
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