What is this card?

Jordan97 · 29 Jan 2012 at 17:56

I got a very old computer, and after dissasembling it I found this card:

Now, I have no idea what this is. Could anyone shed some light? :confused:

It has one 26 pin black connector and a sticker next to it saying "Index-Scan-In"

Cleeecooo · 29 Jan 2012 at 17:59

something for a printer?!

Looks like something from a 17 year old Dell I had

Deception · 29 Jan 2012 at 18:02

Looks like a Parallel PCI Card from those pictures. Mostly used for old printers.

Jordan97 · 29 Jan 2012 at 18:03

It might be! My Nan works in Morrisons and this was the computer that powered the photo machine. They've just had them all upgraded now though.

When I opened it up, the dust was so thick you couldn't even see the colour of the cables!

EDIT: Just looked at some pictures of PCI Parallel cards and they all seem to have 2 rows of 13 pins. Mine has 2 rows of 9 and 1 of 8.

Reaper 392 · 29 Jan 2012 at 19:50

did Raymond Lin take that second photo

back on topic i have literally no idea what it could be

Justintime · 30 Jan 2012 at 03:50

26 pin serial, bo idea what for.

weird_dave · 30 Jan 2012 at 07:15

Can you take a clear pic of the front of the board, at least get the part number of the big chip

Hagar · 30 Jan 2012 at 10:35

Could be

Pinnacle or similar AV card.
Proprietary scanner, projector interface card.

Jordan97 · 30 Jan 2012 at 15:46

Reaper 392 said:
did Raymond Lin take that second photo

back on topic i have literally no idea what it could be

Not sure who he is so unsure whether to be offended or not!

Sorry, haven't got a good camera, but after looking at the chip, it appears to be a video decoder.

It says:

CONEXANT
Bt848AKPF
VIDEO DECODER
BN5402.4
0018 KOREA

stulid · 30 Jan 2012 at 15:48

Something for CCtv?

Werewolf · 30 Jan 2012 at 15:49

In that case it's probably the interface for some sort of CCTV or specialized video camera (possibly something like a Photoshop).

weird_dave · 30 Jan 2012 at 19:29

Plug it in and see what windows calls it