Invisible wrote:
> Actually, I have three of them. And you know what? They're all slightly 
> different...
> 
> If I compare any pair of boards, there is a difference. So it's not like 
> one board is different to the other two, they're ALL different!
> 
> - Boards B and C have two RAM chips on them. Board A has bays for two 
> chips, but only one is present. (All three boards are spec'd as "4 MB".)
> 
> - Board B has a different brand of RAM chip. (But *all* the boards have 
> different *models* of RAM chip.)
> 
> - Boards A and C have pins on the AGP connector which aren't connected 
> to anything. But on board B, those pins are physically missing rather 
> than just unconnected.
> 
> - Board B has less writing printed on it between the two RAM chips. The 
> actual components mounted there appear identical, but just fewer markings.
> 
> - Each board has some kind of 3-pin component with what looks like a 
> heat sink soldered to a very large metal pad on the board. Oddly, only 
> two of the three pins are connected to anything; the middle pin is cut 
> off at the base. On boards A and C, there are three metal pads on the 
> board that end in rounded tips, and the middle one appears to be a 
> continuation of the large pad the heat sink is soldered to. But on board 
> B, there is a gap between the pads the pins are soldered to and the 
> circles at the end, and there is no middle pad (but the circle is still 
> there).
> 
> - Some of the code numbers on both the S3 chip and the Holtek chip are 
> different on each board, while others are identical. (I'm guessing these 
> are serial numbers, or at least revision numbers.)
> 
> - Hello, I didn't notice this: Board B says "SP368G REV:2" on it, while 
> the other two boards say "SP368G REV:3" on them.
> 
> So there we are. *Clearly* I have too much free time...

...business as usual, eh? :-} Some things never change...

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