Nope. No dongle needed.
The 26 pin connector is for an Apple AV monitor. Kind of like the
Commodore 1084S, only with Apples usual proprietory greed it has a
different connector. Cant remember the name but it is possibly HDI-26 or
maybe HDI-45. Most of the AV Power Macs also had another card which
would take the Apple 15 pin monitor as well as having 4 S-Video ports.
With the AudioVision monitor this would allow you to use 2 monitors at the
same time, as well as sound systems perhaps. No I've never tried it.
Many people have problems with the PC card designed for the 6100. I
think Apple was just trying to do what Amiga had done long before, only
not as well. Again I would point you to the lowendmac Power-mac site and
dig thru the archives.
I have a Power Mac 7100/66 AV as well as a garbage find Apple AV. I would
guess some MS PC guy threw it out when he found it wouldn't work on his
machine. It only has the HDIxx connector. Good color and clarity as well as
sound but it only supports VGA resolution.
> >Question: There is a three-row, 26-pin port on the PC card, for some
> >external device to plug in to. What is this?
>
> Looking over the fact that it always hangs at the same place... I think
> what is happening is, it IS booted into the PC... only that 26pin
> connector is for the video dongle, and without it, you just aren't seeing
> the PC screen.
>
> There should be a cable that plugs into that port. That cable will then
> have an RGB video connector to go to a monitor, an RGB video connector to
> go to the Mac's video out port, and a PC Joy stick port.
>
> It looks like the card you have is just like all the others... without
> that dongle, the card is useless. FINDING a dongle is next to impossible
> without getting a whole new card. Some day I will have to sit down and
> pinout one of my Dongles, so that I can at least make available a wiring
> diagram for others to make new ones.
>
> >Awesome, thanks for the link! Why is the corresponding Apple FTP site's
> >folder empty then? Grrr. Made me think they'd pulled their whole software
> >archive except for patches.
>
> Apple reorganized their software archives a while back... and they made a
> total mess of things. Some stuff is located in odd places, some stuff was
> moved but links not updated... ugh... its a mess for anything in the old
> discontinued software.
>
> >One thing I noticed, dunno if it's at all relevant, but when I try to
> >click the popup menu for "Sharing" (this is in the PC Setup panel) it
> >gives me the following error message: "No PC drive letters available. Make sure
> >that "MACSHARE" has been started on the PC and "LASTDRIVE" is set to an
> >appropriate value in your "CONFIG.SYS"." I assume this is for file sharing Mac
> >data to the PC side, so at the moment I don't need to care about that
> >problem...right?
>
> Yeah, this is only for hosting a shared folder between the Mac and PC. It
> is a VERY nice feature. Basically, you assign a folder on the Mac side,
> and that becomes a drive letter on the PC side... so anything in that
> folder is read/write accessable from both worlds. But it needs a driver
> installed on the PC before you can configure it. That driver is part of
> the PC half of the installer software (I'm not sure it is available on
> Apple's web site... if not, let me know, I'll send you an image of one of
> my disks... although, you SHOULD be able to use the PC drivers that come
> with the 1.6.4 version of the PC Setup software, and those I believe are
> on Apple's site).
>
> I would expect you to see the error you are seeing right now, as you
> can't assign a drive letter until AFTER the PC is up and running
> properly, and the driver is installed.
>
>
> I would check with the person that gave you the mac, see if they still
> have the video dongle. If they kept the old monitor, they may have left
> it connected to the monitor (I have seen that done a few times... people
> don't realize the dongle goes to the computer, they figure it is part of
> the monitor and try to keep it). If you can't find one, let me know...
> maybe I can pinout one of mine so you can build a new one (anyone have a
> suggestion on the best way to pinout an odd cable? Or am I just stuck
> using a continuity tester and going from pin to pin looking to see what
> connects where?)
>
> -chris
>
> <http://www.mythtech.net>
>
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