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- From: tad@wrq.com (Tad Marshall)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Subject: Re: Installation adveNTures with NT
- Keywords: Speedstar 24x, ET4000
- Message-ID: <1iadpfINN2lg@shelley.u.washington.edu>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 22:30:07 GMT
- Article-I.D.: shelley.1iadpfINN2lg
- References: <1992Dec27.194412.12748@netcom.com> <EBROWN.92Dec29120203@bud_light.kodak.com> <47888@ogicse.ogi.edu>
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- In article <47888@ogicse.ogi.edu> rogere@ogicse.ogi.edu (Roger Ellingson) writes:
- >In article <EBROWN.92Dec29120203@bud_light.kodak.com> ebrown@tap.kodak.com writes:
- >>
- >>The ET4000 drivers do work for the Diamond Speedstar 24. That
- >>is what I am using.
- >>
- >Could someone point me to where these et4000 drivers are located?
- >I think I have tried all et*.* sys and ts*.* dll files on both
- >July and Oct releases of NT and have not been able to get a
- >24X to run at high res on Oct NT.
- >
- >Are the correct drivers the Oct NT ET4000.sys drivers?
- >Is it still necessary to copy files to vga.sys and vga.dll?
-
- The Diamond SpeedStar 24 and 24X use different accelerator chips. The
- 24X uses the Western Digital 90C11 (I may have the model number wrong,
- but this is close), not the ET4000. The October CD doesn't have any
- driver for the Western Digital chip.
-
- On a goof, I tried using a Compaq driver for the WD chip in their new
- (ProLinea?) machines and it mostly worked in 800x600x16 mode, though there
- was a lot of funky looking video noise on the screen. I was unable to get
- the Compaq driver to drive the SpeedStar 24X at 1024x768x16 -- it looked
- like the monitor wasn't syncing up right, though it's a 5FG and can sync
- at pretty high rates.
-
- Bottom line -- you are stuck in VGA mode on your 24X until someone makes
- a SpeedStar 24X compatible driver.
-
- -- Tad
-