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Subject: Re: Matrox Meteor and PPRO problem found 
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Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 09:57:23 -0800
From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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>From The Desk Of Mark Tinguely :
> >  So far the matrox meteor hard crashing the system is isolated to 
> >  440fx (Natoma chipsets) based motherboards.
> 
> I could get Neptune based PCI 90 Mhz Pentium system to crash with the meteor
> if I was capturing and viewing on the same machine.
> 

Good point. I forgot about the Neptune chipset and possibly the Orion
chipset. The story with the Orion chipset is that you have to tweak
the CPU or the PCI chipset to increase the PCI bus speed.

No news yet on a fix for the saa 7116 and 7196 based video capture boards.

	Amancio