Re: Video Cards, Advise and Going Wacky

["Dave Emmerson" <dave@xitroneurope.com>]

> Dave, what does "the rest of my custom system" consist of, with which the
Matrox cards were incompatible?

Sorry, I omitted to change to 'plain text'.

It's an ASUS A7V 133 Motherboard, 900MHz Athlon (massive tower heatsink with
2 cooling fans), BT Speedway ISDN internal modem, SMC EZ 1211TX 10/100
Network card, LG DVD, Liteon CD-RW, 2 x Fujitsu HDDs at 8 and 20Gb, and 1 x
IBM-DTLA HDD (40Gb, 7200RPM). No audio, and usually an Adaptec 2944 or 2940
SCSI controller for whatever I'm currently writing a driver for - hence no
SCSI disks, so that I can't prevent the OS from accessing its drive when I'm
testing buggy code. The HDDS are in 5 inch carriers with external cooling
fans fitted. The PSU is low-noise (approved for AMD CPUs), 350W.  768 Mb
PC-133 SDRAM by a well-known brand which I forget (can't read them without
shutting down and removing one). WinNT2000 with all SP and security fixes
applied up to date. Oh, and the ATI AGP video which works fine at 1280 x
1024 x 32bit :-)

D.

Dave Emmerson wrote:
FWIW, I found dual-head Matrox cards to be totally incompatible with the
rest of my custom system (no on-board video), repeatedly freezing it solid
after an hour's use. I'd taken care to keep the area around the boards'
cooling fans clear, and the inside of the case was cool. I eventually binned
them in disgust and bought cheaper ATI cards which have been perfectly
adequate. Your mileage may vary. D.
--
Tom Prescott
Original Fine Art Digital Prints



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