Re: XGA208 with 832x624 Released (Windows NT)

UZnal wrote:
So at this point it's probably safe to say that XGA-2 is _definitely not
supported in the Server 720.

A lot of things are possible on MCA.

Posting from the 760E again, the OS/2 box took another dump. It's time I dug through the pile and replaced that dodgy hard disk. Looking for a 4-Gigish narrow SCSI, but I could make do with one of my FW drives and a converter.

Anyway, I pulled the XGA-2 from the 720 this afternoon and plugged it in to the 95A. She fired right up and 208nt recognized that the system has two XGA-2 adapters with no fuss. Couldn't figure out how to get an image on the second monitor, however. The system was running from the primary adapter at instance 6.

Back in 720 land again, I reinstalled the Diamond Stealth PCI video card and tried it again. Still could not get NT to admit that it has anything but a generic VGA adapter installed. But the system (and NT) was definitely running on the Diamond Stealth card.

Since this thing likes Cirrus so much, I decided to put in a reworked Cirrus SVGA/A from our friend the Baddog. Configured fine, NT found a Cirrus adapter and gave me 800x600x64k - on the planar video adapter. I can't seem to get it to fire from the SVGA/A in an MCA slot, no matter what I try.

For the life of me, I can't seem to get this machine to operate properly from a video card in an expansion slot. Oh well, at least the planar video doesn't seem to flicker at 800x600.

-Jim


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