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May 08, 2010 Rating POST Tester Card by: Support Hello SPONGETRUCKER, Now that is a tool I haven't seen in a long time. I have one somewhere in the closet that I did use on occasion when a motherboard wouldn't start up. I would surmise that both of your testers need to be inserted in a slot. How ever they are proabably the old 16 bit slot cards, not PCI cards. Compare the cards to a slot, if the card connectors are wide (about 3/32 of an inch) then they are too old to use in a modern motherboard. If they are about 1/32nd of an inch wide and the card looks like it has 32 to 64 connectors on a side they may be PCI cards. Normally the POST card would display a digit for each step of the POST when you powered up the motherboard. If (from memeory of the one I have) the LED display started to blink on a number then the POST had failed at that step. The number of the step had a coresponding alpha numeric expination the comes with the documentation such as number 101 - 'the memory logic low line has failed.' The card I have also has four led lights, two red, one amber, and one green. The green, amber, and one red were 5+, 12+, and ground. When lit then the voltage and ground were correct. The last led that was seperate from the other three was red and it was the power to the card led, when the card was powered then it was lit. The only thing I can suggest is to do a search for the manufacture of the devices. I doubt that they are listed on the web, never know. Then again someone may have put the documentation up on a web site and never removed it. Good luck with your card testers.

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