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From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
To: Cyrus Rahman <cr@jcmax.com>
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Subject: Re: S3 video cards
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On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 03:52:56PM -0400, Cyrus Rahman woke me up to tell me:
> > I have just changed the videocard once again in one of those machines to
> > an old Diamond Viper PRO video (P9100 based) and it hasn't failed yet, in
> > fact I'm writing this in a xterm on it....
> > I have a wierd feeling that these boards don't like S3 cards, all the
> > others we've tried where different vinatage S3 boards.
> > Well we'll see what happens, but it hasn't that stable with any of the
> > other cards...
> > Anybody else seen problems with S3 cards ??
> 
> After extensive testing, we concluded that S3 cards (and all derived
> chipsets, at least as of one year ago) don't address memory over 64mbytes
> correctly.  So they do trash your os if you install them and use X.
> 
> We tried all sorts of variants last year, and called the manufacturers of
> various S3 cards to see if they had new bios's for their boards to fix the
> problem.  They advised us that it wasn't their fault, because the chips
> themselves were defective and they couldn't work around it.

I don't think so.
This machine has 72 megs of RAM and a S3 video card, and I'm raising and
lowering no less than 23 windows at the moment...
*mutter* Silly Compaq that it is....   *mutter*
This machine was on closeout in August '96, so it falls under that one
year ago.


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