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Re: S3 805 based cards

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From: Stephan Siano
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 07:36
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In <314enh$ok7@News1.mcs.com>, rdbousqu@mcs.com (Rick Bousquet) writes:
>I have 2 Actix GE32 VL Plus video cards and I have not had any success with 
>this card running on a 50 MHz computer. Has anyone had any success with this. 
>The funny thing is that when I bought this card I had headaches getting it to 
>runat 40 MHz but managed to get it to work. It has worked flawlessly 
>since.Actix told me when I was looking at this card to purchase that it would 
>workon a DX 50 CPU without any problem, but now they say that it won't 
>work. I told them the headaches I went through just to get these cards to 
>work at 40 MHz and the fortune in long distance calls. They have basically 
>said they don't care. I said fine and I will put posts out that this is 
>basically there response and the type of support they have after saying 
>originally that it would have know problems in the future.
>

VL-cards do not work with 50 MHz. The VESA standard ends with
40 MHz, maybe you can change the local bus clock to 25 MHz (look into you
motherboard's manual). This will slow down your machine, but it may work.

Stephan
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Subject: Re: S3 805 based cards
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