RE: Mark's Wild A** Vid Card

From: Mohan, Ross <MohanR_at_STARS-SMI.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 13:35:20 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.0033AD7B.20010627131150@fatcity.com>

YES!!! :-)

And
"Lila" which was wonderful ( and gave me a headache)

-----Original Message-----From: Adams, Matthew (GEA, 088130) [mailto:MATT.ADAMS_at_APPL.GE.COM]Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 2:32 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Mark's Wild A** Vid Card
 It's been 10 years since I read it, but this is the guy who wrote "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", right?
> Robert Pirsig called those "gumption traps", and they can
 make us wind > up cranky, misanthropic NT haters. (He didn't say that last part.) > > :) > >
> > -----Original

 Message----- > Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 8:27 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list
 ORACLE-L > >
> I think I came across the route of the problem
 now. > > I have in fact
 installed all updated drivers from VIA, > flashed the BIOS, > switched IRQ's for my network card (it was in the adjacent > PCI slot to the
> AGP slot) so there are no IRQ conflicts.
> > I went on to the ELSA web

 support page, and discovered that > if you want to > run a GLADIAC 920 on a Win2K box, in 1024/768 resolution, > your monitor needs > to have a 120hz refresh rate. My (Shite) monitor (a Belinea
> 102010) only >

 supports a 60hz refresh rate!! Now I'm not entirely sure > about this, and > don't have another monitor that supports this to hand to test > my theory > out - but I would think that if the card tried to overload > the monitor with
> a 120hz refresh rate, when it is set to 60 this would
 infact cause the > monitor to go in to standby to save frying the monitor? Am I right in > presuming that? > > God I hope
 so!! This card as Ross pointed out is top of the > range! Costing > ?350!! If it doesn't work after I try a new monitor (More > expense) heads
> will roll.. Not sure who's yet.. But OH BY GOD - HEADS
 WILL ROLL :) > > Thanks
 for the pointers any way guys.. I'll certainly keep > you updated on > the amount of people I blow away online in the Half Life/Counterstrike > Modification!! <G> When I get it working.. >
> Mark >
> -----Original Message----- <FONT

 size=2>> McLarty > Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 12:50 > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > >
> Hi > <FONT

 size=2>> Try checking out all of your drivers. >
> A mate of mine recently purchased a new
 motherboard and > Athlon 900, firstly
> it seemed to run like a dog, after a bit of
 looking around > he found out > that it was probably the VIA chipset, so on went the new
> drivers, seemed to >

 run better but still not happy. Reinstalled OS with the new > VIA drivers and > ram great, all except for this strange occasional lockup. > He found the cause by chance when he was moving house and fired up his > system without the modem attached. System was running very well so he > hooked up his modem to check some email and shortly later bang system > lockup. Got the new USRobotics driver for his system and last > I heard he > was rockin. >
> > Peter
> > At 08:55 AM 26/06/2001

 -0800, you wrote: > ><RANT>
> >WHATEVER you do - DON'T GO ADDING ANY NEW FUNKY
 HARDWARE!!! > > >
 >I just got a brand new ELSA GLADIAC 920 graphics card - > built on the new > >nvidia Geoforce 3 chipset with 64mb on board DDR SDRAM! (I > can hear any > >gamers going YUMMMM)!!
> > > >So - slip it in to

 my (not a year old - PIII800 256M RAM > Win2K) PC and the > >damn thing wont work - it switches video modes to go in to a > game and turns
> >the screen in to stand by mode (NOW THERE'S A
 BLACK SCREEN > FOR YA!!)!! > DAMN > >THING!! You then have to physically turn the machine off!! > Support in their > >infinite wisdom told me to upgrade my 4in1 drivers for the > chipset(VIA),
> and > >flash the

 BIOS(AWARD)! Not a very inviting solution - as a > BIOS flash, if > >gone wrong, will fry your BIOS chip, meaning that you'll need a new >

  >motherboard! They then go on to tell me they won't support

> this. Call up PC >

 >support - any they won't support it either! >
> > >So there I am raring to get my hands on
 the ultimate PC > gamer experience,
> >and decided to do as they recommend - I updated my
 VIA 4in1, > and flashed > the > >BIOS - and guess what - the f*$^&r STILL WONT WORK!!! I installed the > NVIDIA > >driver - nope.. Installed the Win2K SP2 - nope.. try to > tweak the settings
> >for screen res etc. - nope.. Made sure that there
 were no > conflicts with > >IRQ's etc. - nope.. > >
> >And at this very moment - IT STILL WON'T
 WORK!! > > >

  >DON'T GO THROUGH THE HASSLE!!! > >

> ></RANT> >
> > >Totally off-topic I know as you wouldn't
 dream of playing games on a > >database server - but I needed to vent a little there - I've > spent hours on > >this last night!! And will later I suppose.. > > >
 >Any graphics experts out there? PC support etc.? > > > >Mark (Gonna go and cry now) Leith > > >
 >-----Original Message----- >
 >dgoulet_at_vicr.com > >Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 03:22 > >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > >
> > >HUMM, Our last unscheduled Unix
 down was due to the local > power utility
> >whereas > >the last

 unscheduled down on NT was due to the "Blue screen > of death" (Ok, > >so
> >the screen is Black on 2000). <FONT
 size=2>> > > >----trim----
> > > >--
> >Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: <A
 target=_blank href="http://www.orafaq.com">http://www.orafaq.com
> >-- > >Author: Mark

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