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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (1687)	7/11/1998 1:31:00 PM
From: GrnArrow	Respond to of 14778

Looking for opinions on cards for multimonitors w/ win98. I'd like to add two pci cards into my Dell computer so that I can have 3 monitors going while displaying RTIII, browser windows, and irc. So I really don't need a card powerful enough for high-end gaming, but it should be able to display (preferably) thousands of colors at high resolution (at least 1280x1024). Anybody using, or heard of, cards that are reliable under win98 multimon? I've seen a lot of S3 Virge DX w/4MB cards advertised at auction sites. Seems you should be able to get one for around $30-$40. Anybody have any experience with these? Any opinions/advice are welcome! Thanks, Mike

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (1687)	7/11/1998 8:52:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Back to the KOT (keep on trucking) drive concept. Recent experience and thoughts... Recently I had to produce "clean" NT 4.0 and Win 95 environments for product installs, which are driving us crazy in our latest product cycles. I had to have NT and 95 systems which I could test installs on, and which I could easily return to pristine state because something in our install is blowing away various portions of 95 or nt or office 97 or multiples of these. SO in the ZP mode, I copied clean versions of installs of 95 and NT to a backup hard drive (I have plenty of hard drives in my system), then installed Office 97, then copied those, then installed products under development. During this process I had to revert a couple of times (nothing to do with my products, I'm happy to say, but rather to do with failed attempts to solve my earlier reported SCSI CD problem). Sure enough, try a hardware install, blow it, hell with it, copy OS (from a different OS boot), reboot, voila! back in business. In this respect, KOT works perfectly. BUT I have two levels of backup of two OSs which uses major part of 1.6 gig drive. If I want more levels, price becomes prohibitive. If I backup an OS version, I either make a new level or replace an old one. Experience tells me that troubles often don't show up soon enough to stop me from backing up over the last good old one unless I make a lot of copies. At 2-3 hundred mb per whack, that means I'm back in the decide-what-to-write-over business. As soon as I'm in that business, I know I will fail. So that's what keeps me interested in the smallest possible OS backup idea. I think the optimum solution lies in between. KOT is valid for immediate disaster recovery, but it will not replace incremental OS backups for latent disaster recovery (my name for the disasters you did but you ain't found out about yet). Speaking of disaster recovery, I told my wife I'd be out 40 minutes ago, so I must run ... Spots