If you do get Colorgraphics, here are a few hints that will save you some trouble. Their documentation is less than ideal...
- Some machines will boot-up on display 4, not display 1. On these machines, the order of the displays is reversed. That is, 4=1, 3=2, etc. Guess what - mine is one of those machines! I hooked a monitor up to display 1, and all I got was a video BIOS message.
- You have to have each channel connected to a monitor at boot-up, or you cannot use that channel. That is, you can't just hook one up after the machine has booted.
- Ditto, switching between analog and DVI. You can't switch back and forth after the machine has booted.
- There are two controller chips. On initial bootup, the machine will boot on BOTH displays on one controller chip. The other two will show a video BIOS splash screen.
- Plug and Play may not automatically recognize the card the way it should. You probably should ignore the plug-and-play messages in any case - they will only get you in trouble. Go into Device Manager and you should see one VGA adapter working properly, one VGA adapter with a yellow exclamation mark, and two "display controller"s under "Other devices" with a yellow exclamation mark.
You need to change the driver for the VGA displays to "ColorGraphics Xentera GT" and for the "display controllers" to "ColorGraphics Xentera GT secondary". Use "have disk" and load them from the CD.
- If you are unable to get a Windows screen after loading the drivers, go into the "X" menu at boot-up and set it to "No" for "resource adjustment". The default is "yes", and may not work on all machines.
I'm quite happy with the card (though I don't have 4 monitors yet - still waiting for 2 more Samsung 213Ts) but not at all happy with their documentation. |
