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Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 15:47:55 PDT
From: Sheridan George <s-geo@usa.net >
Reply-To: scoug-help@scoug.com
To: Scoug Help Desk <scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject: SCOUG-Help: Replacement video card

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This will be long so sit down and take a load off.

As some of you know I have been having trouble with the driver for my Trident 9685 video card. It
simply locks up the system when ever it feels like it. Yesterday I installed fixpak 10 and my
computer won't even boot. It gets so far and gives a 000d trap. After several discussions Rollin and
actions that didn't solve the problem he and I agreed I should try a reinstall.

After doing a long format I installed Warp 4 (selecting VGA as the video driver), fixpak 10, MPTS
fixpak, and the TCP/IP fixpak all from the SCOUG CD (thank you). Absolutely no problems. Did an
archive (good thing, too). Down loaded the driver from Trident, installed it, and puke. Got the
driver from IBM. Puke. Reinstalled the driver several times selecting different combinations of
resolutions and color depth. Puke, puke, puke, ... . Same trap 000d.

While the Trident 9685 is very fast at 1024 x 768 x 65K when it is working, I realize the driver is
not going to be fixed any time soon. So my solution is a new video card. I need suggestions for an
accelerated, PCI video card that has stable (a relative term) OS/2 drivers.

I'm running an AMD K6-233 on an MTech M-549 motherboard that has a Super TX chip set. This board does
not have an AGP slot.

Sheridan

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