Yellow connector on R9000 Pro

MJOMJO Denmark New
edited September 2003 in Hardware
EDIT: Now with pictures

This question was asked in a danish newsgroup.

The card in question is a Sapphire Radeon 9000 Pro.

It cannot be a 12V connector, not on a R9000 Pro.
He has also tried plugging a floppy power connector in, it did not fit.

When the card is viewed from above, the connector is in the upper right corner.
The backplate facing left.

sapphire9000vivo.jpg

Here's a closeup
connect.jpg

I have suggested that it is a 12V connector, but that does not make any sense on a R9000 Pro.
But what else can it be?

These links with pictures of a R9000 Pro does not have a yellow connector.
http://www.tech-report.com/reviews/2002q3/radeon-9000pro/index.x?pg=2
http://www.guru3d.com/review/ati/radeon9000pro/

Comments

  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    Looks like a sound connector. Like from a CD-Rom Drive.
  • SimGuySimGuy Ottawa, Canada
    edited September 2003
    The yellow connector has something to do with the Video In/Video Out features of the Sapphire Atlantis 9000 VIVO.

    After reading a review on this card in Russian and doing a little fancy translating, it looks like that yellow connector resembles the "Linear Input" port on today's high-end sound-cards.

    Possibly the Atlantis VIVO can take a video in signal and capture the audio from it? Maybe it can output the audio signal to another audio hardware device for capture & processing?
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    It's an audio in - I have one too. When you're doing video capture from analog, how are you supposed to get sound in from the sound card to the video capture driver? Through that port, of course. You use it if you want to use ATI's WDM capture driver to capture audio instead of using your audio card's WDM capture driver.
  • MJOMJO Denmark New
    edited September 2003
    Ahh now that I think about it, it does look like an audio connector.
    I have one similar on my SBLive.
    I just couldn't figure it out.

    Thanks guys.
  • MJOMJO Denmark New
    edited September 2003
    Here is a picture of the card in question.
    It is taken by the owner himself.

    This card does not have neither tv-tuner og ViVo capabilities.
    Then why is the yellow connector still present?

    Does Sapphire make the PCB first and then decide what connectors should be fitted?
  • SimGuySimGuy Ottawa, Canada
    edited September 2003
    On Sapphire's website, the only Atlantis 9000 that shows the yellow connector is the VIVO edition.

    I'm at a loss now. :scratch: :confused2
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