Compaq Contura Aero - the chipsets

The Aero's motherboard and the chips

further informations about the chips

• the CPU
  
  Yes, the Aero is INTEL-inside and the CPUs are SX so they should be upgradable. In fact nobody has done this up to now (only at the 1st of April 1997 :-)). Some companies offer this kind of upgrade for the Aero, but I do not think they have done it yet.
• the 4MB RAM on the motherboard
  
  The 8 RAM chips are all 1Mx4bit, for example of the type KM44C1000CLJ-t or HM514260ALJ7.
• the video chip and its RAM
  
  The video RAM is always 256k x 16bit = 512kB, the chip can be a MT4C16257DJ-7L, a TC514260BJL-80 or a HM514260ALJ7 for example.
  For further information on this chips please take a look at my video page.
• the PCMCIA controller
  
  According to the Linux FAQ for the Aero, one of the VLSI chips is the PCMCIA controller and it is a clone of the Intel 82365 chip. It should be the 82C146.
• the BIOS
  
  The flash-BIOS is 8 x 128kb = 1MBit. Sometimes this chip is placed in a PLCC-socket
• all the other chips
  
  Sorry, at the moment there is no information available on the other chips. Feel free to find out more.