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- From: gregb@manufing.dell.com (Gregory E. Blume)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: diamond speedstar 24X
- Summary: Diamond Speedstar 24X
- Keywords: diamond speedstar 24X
- Message-ID: <gregb.716421224@manufing>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 21:53:44 GMT
- Sender: news@raid.dell.com (Net News Admin)
- Organization: Dell Computer Co
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- Nntp-Posting-Host: manufing.dell.com
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- i receently invested in a new video card--Diamond Speedstar 24X (the 24X NOT
- the 24) an have been gennerally pleazed with th speed of it.. it is quite
- nice for plain jane VGA mode for the WPS.. i had a heck of a tim setting it
- up to work though and though tha i would post a note here for anyone that may
- be havin g troubles as well.
- the first prob. you will run into is whn you boot OS/2 for th first time with
- the card in the machine--you get the c000005 error upon bootup. th fix is to
- either use a dos boot disk or an os/2 boot diskette to get you in the system
- to a prompt and apply the fix for bvhsvga.dll this fix is generally avail
- able and does the job th first time.
- the next prob that yhou will prob. have is that when you try to access any
- of the extended video modes (i.e. in a VDM) such as 640x480x256 or
- 800x600x256 yo may have a loss of synch. (the screen goes all wavy).
- you can fix this by usin the utility that came on the video card diskettes
- called 24xmode.com. this utility is used to select wha type of monitor you
- are using and is loaded in the autoexec.bat file each time you open a VDM or
- go to windows fullscreen. what is reallly nice about this card \is that even
- though i am using a high color driver for windows full screen mode, i am still
- able to use individual winodwos programs in seamless VGA mode.. the best of
- both worlds! but the caveat is that if you do this you cant switch between
- programs becasue you reallly screw up the video modes and OS/2 gets really
- confused. havent found a way around this one yet. so anyone with ideas give
- me a yell. my address is gus@deathstar.dell.com thanks
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