Re: [SLUG] Hardware problems (video)

[Jeffrey Borg <jeffrey@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi 

On Fri, 7 Jul 2000 donohueb@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Jeffrey Borg wrote:
> 
> > going back to the agp S3/Virge GX/2 4mb card I had in it before but with
> 
> sometimes with agp they are not in properly. you really have to push them
> in hard and try to see that they are all the way down into the slot. i
> know this may seem super obvious but the agp cards seem overly prone to
> problems because of the connector design. 

It wasn't that becasue the trial of Accelerated X never froze when
XFree86 froze the box!!!!!!!!!! and I didn't change a hardware setting,
XFree4.0 also froze the machine (although accelerated X was fast!)

I just wish accelerated X came in a seperate packages for different cards
instead of the $140 set for everything and nothing else, Because I
wouldn't blink to change!
 
> with pci i'd say it may be something in the bios settings regarding
> PNP/PCI. try different settings is all i can think of now. (you probably
> have already) turn on/off PNP/OS installed, turn on auto resources etc.

Tried some of it, But needed the machine back up because I wouldn't get
email otherwise!! I will try more things tonight. I already had to play
with the irq allocation because of the 4 serial ports in the machine (2
isa cards)

> also if it's possible take out any other boards that you can. one of these
> may be conflicting with the video, try a different network card, etc.

Lets put it this way the P200 with the S3 Trio card was 120% reliable in X
never had a screwup with X that has caused the whole machine to crash
freeze etc... So that's why I wanted it in this machine.


Jeff

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