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Re: Can I use a US motherboard in my European Apple IIe?



Yes absolutly , the power supply will be 220v  without pbm the output are
same than US power supply.
I use many US Apple as is.
If the worst cas you take a converter 220/110 and it's ok too

"Knut Roll-Lund" <kr-lund@nogarbage.online.no> wrote in message
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> Well, I'm asking this because it might be a solution to my RGB problem.
>
> If I get a US IIe motherboard and put this in my European IIe I will get
> 60Hz video, is this the only difference apart from the aux port being in
> a different place? Will the powerplug fit? Are the voltages supplied by
> the European powersupply be the same? Anything I haven't though of?
> (yes, yes, yes, no I think)
>
> So, why...
>
> I got an RGB card, the digital Apple RGBI card (made by Video-7) see
> previous threads. I have tried several monitors without much success.
> The best result was with a CGA 5153 monitor. I had to invert the sync
> (composite sync applied to hsync in the CGA) but apart from that it is
> just to match pin to pin on the from the 15pin of the Apple to the 9pin
> of the CGA. The problem with this CGA is that even if it is a european
> monitor it does 60Hz and the picture rolls with the 50Hz signal form the
> Apple. If you like http://home.online.no/~kr-lund/a2e-cga.avi links to a
> small 1.7MB film of the CGA test result. So if I change my motherboard
> to a US one I will get 60Hz video and the CGA should work.
>
> If I could get hold of the proper monitor or even an analog monitor that
> is suitable I wouldn't need to do that but it seems that these are hard
> to come by and those that still have such hold on to them. Even a CGA
> monitor is pretty impossible to come by, and yes - I hold on to mine (I
> sometimes use it with a PC-AT clone with a CGA card).
>
> Knut