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| I mean any GPU can work,it's whether there is a BIOS/vBIOS incompatibility. Impossible to know ahead of time. |
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| Very strange. Yet the video card sees it. When starting the PC, you see something. I can also see the bios. Yet when I try to start windows, it doesn't start, black screen.
I remember having another video card, much older. That as soon as you turned on the PC, immediately black screen and made the beeps. But with the ATI at least I can see the bios! I don't, I understand, I don't understand. |
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| Sounds like it is fine in the low resolution text mode for the POST screen, but is struggling to load higher resolutions. |
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| I'm sad. So I will not be able to know if there is a better video card than the matrox mystique 220, compatible! Because now the point of the question is compatibility! |
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| Probably a video card for computers around your era will be better fitted with Voodoo2 etc.
This video says it is usable in Pentium 1.
Edited by stingraze 2022-07-25 2:58 PM
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| To be fair, I have had a new computer motherboards as GPUs do exactly the same because either the BIOS or vBIOS didn't like the other... but I could contact the manufacturer and they'd work out which needed fixing and fix it
It could be bad luck, or it could be a chronic problem in your 1999 (? ) BIOS firmware that makes it unable to place nicely with PCI 2.2 cards. |
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| Quote stingraze - 2022-07-25 2:33 PM
Probably a video card for computers around your era will be better fitted with Voodoo2 etc.
This video says it is usable in Pentium 1.
Unfortunately, I don't physically have room to insert another card. |
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| Quote C:Amie - 2022-07-25 3:20 PM
To be fair, I have had a new computer motherboards as GPUs do exactly the same because either the BIOS or vBIOS didn't like the other... but I could contact the manufacturer and they'd work out which needed fixing and fix it
It could be bad luck, or it could be a chronic problem in your 1999 (? ) BIOS firmware that makes it unable to place nicely with PCI 2.2 cards.
It could be! pity that the support no longer exists! |
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| Quote C:Amie - 2022-07-26 12:20 AM
but I could contact the manufacturer and they'd work out which needed fixing and fix it
You mean fix it now, after all these years?
Time for opensource driver for Windows.... if such a thing exists for old devices.
You know, I checked the prices for Voodoo2 cards, and they are ridiculously expensive. You can buy a modern GPU with some of them! Edited by stingraze 2022-07-26 2:11 AM
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| No, I was referring to new hardware. |
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| Oh I see. |
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| Quote stingraze - 2022-07-26 2:09 AM
Quote C:Amie - 2022-07-26 12:20 AM
but I could contact the manufacturer and they'd work out which needed fixing and fix it
You mean fix it now, after all these years?
Time for opensource driver for Windows.... if such a thing exists for old devices.
You know, I checked the prices for Voodoo2 cards, and they are ridiculously expensive. You can buy a modern GPU with some of them!
The Voodoo2, must be coupled to a graphics card. As I said, I have no physical free slots.
However I have a 3DFX interactive ATC 2465. But I can't use it. I have no free slots. Edited by NarakuITA 2022-07-26 10:42 AM
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| I see...
The Wikipedia lists a lot of early GPUs from NVIDIA on the top section, maybe pick one from that?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_uni...
There are some like STG-2000, Riva 128 which I'm not familiar with since my GPU was from GeForce.. Edited by stingraze 2022-07-26 2:33 PM
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| Again I come back to what do you want to do with it. If you only want to display 1024x768 @ 32-bit colour and don't plan on playing any games newer than 1997 because it will be a 2D system. Why bother!
If however you want digital display connectivity, any chance at playing new games or higher resolution screens / multiple screens. Then it is different. |
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| It wouldn't have been bad to try some more recent games.
Then with the more powerful video card I can see videos better, and much more smoothly.
The only time I got the card to work, I tried watching a video, and I noticed the difference. |
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