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From: a516@mindlink.UUCP (Jordan Melville)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Windows 3.0 Driver for ATI 1024 card?
Message-ID: <3527@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 12 Oct 90 20:48:10 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> kevinc@cs.athabascau.ca writes:
> 
> Msg-ID: <365@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
> Posted: 13 Oct 90 20:17:40 GMT
> 
> Org.  : Athabasca University
> Person: Kevin Crocker
> 
> I just received my supposedly ATI VGA WONDER card to find that it was
> one of those ATI VGA 1024 cards with only 256K on it.  I talso came
> with four HD disks full of drivers and some even for W 3.0
> 


The ATI VGA 1024 is just a VGAWonder without the mouse port.. (that was what my
interpretation of it was at least)

> kevinc@cs.athabascau.ca writes:
> Problem:  nothing but the invocation of Windows 3.0 in regular VGA mode
> (640x400x256 or 640x480x16) works worth a damn.  The card is getting so
> hopelessly confused it is comical.  I tried out the new Fractint
> program just to see what's what and in any high resolution mode the
> screen flickers and jumps as if I had live cell automata dancing
> around.


That would be your monitor, not the card. Make sure that your monitor can
handle the resolution that the card is outputting.

Jordan.

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