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From: akm@cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Paradise Plus and 2A monitor
Summary: please add this to the FAQ list
Keywords: paradise chipset
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Date: 17 Nov 90 07:11:33 GMT
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In article <8972@pitt.UUCP> jones@speedy.cs.pitt.edu.UUCP (Randy Jones) writes:
>>I would like to point out that drivers have been available from
>>Paradise for a very long time. The latest version(s) of their drivers
>>are available from their BBS (which is actually Western Digital's BBS)
>>Paradise 415-968-1834. I have an card that uses a Paradise chipset,

>Okay, so I copied the Paradise drivers for Windows 3.0 from this BBS,
>and I can't get them to work.  I tried installing the 640x480x256 and the
>1024x768x16 drivers separately and either one gives me just a black
>screen when I start up windows.  Anybody seen this problem before?
>I have a 386 25MHz w/ 4MB, and the Main chip on my video board starts
>with WDC'89, so I assume it really is a paradise chip like I was told.
>Help.

Two things. First (and less important), the NEC 2A only does 800x600,
so the 1024x768 should not work at all.

Second (FAQ!!!), you need 512 K to get 640x480x256 or 1024x768x16

If you have only 512 K, the only mode that the drivers will support is
800x600x16.

kartik



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