Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: BREWSTER who wrote (1631)	7/3/1998 2:13:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Zeus Machine..dual monitors..Win98 Peter's idea stopped the major malfunctions #reply-5081511 . There are four settings for performance enhancement none..low..medium..full. If I choose full I have the most problems. Medium works better but still results in problems. If I choose none or low I get a message on boot MGA Windows driver not currently in use, Do you wish to prevent MGA control center from loading at Windows startup? With the none or low settings the machine seems to function. I checked the video drivers with and without the MGA Windows driver's loaded. In both cases they were old drivers MII 27-Jun-98 and the G100 30-Jan-98. The new Matrox universal drivers? ( MGA control panel?) must act on old drivers with enhancements??. With the none and low settings the video performance is horrendous. I am back in Win95 with virtual resolution. In many ways I like it better than the dual monitor setup. In some ways I like the virtual resolution with the 17 in monitor better than the setup with my new Viewsonic P815 ( nice monitor but not all +'s). The 17 in setup was four complete screens. The card does not have enough resolution capability to allow four screens on a 21 in monitor ( using my preferred resolution settings). I will remove the AGP card and try Win98 again with a single monitor setup. I can not handle slow video. I will wait for the non-beta Matrox drivers before I try again. _______________________________________________________________ i was planning on using the Matrox G100 as the secondary card in a win98 multimonitor set up too.the primary card would be an AGP 1740 that comes standard with a Millenia 400.let us know how you resolve this. thanks.brewster The Matrox G100 is an AGP card. You can not put two AGP cards in the same computer as there is only one AGP slot. Also I believe a PCI card will be the primary video adapter with current bios options. I believe the PCI bus is searched first. Zeuspaul