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From: vanmick@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com (Van Der Beek Michael-Leo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Mentor & Trident VGA cards - which one is the best ?
Message-ID: <70006@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com>
Date: 8 Apr 91 02:05:18 GMT
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Hi,

	I too have a trident 8900 1Mb card, I don't have any problems with
it only that it has problems with a SCSI card, solved this with a switch
on the card. No graphics problems so far, I run Windows 3.0, Newwave, OrCad,
Word for Windows and tons of other games no problems. The only grip I have
about the card is that the ROM is 32K (don't know about other cards), when
I shadow it (using AMI video shadow option) it uses up another 32K of I think
Himem, so less memory for drivers and TSR, not that I have many TSR programs
to load.

	There are many drivers for many packages. I think there are about
4-5 drivers for windows 3 alone. This means that there are several resolutions
to choose from. Windows 2.x has another set of drivers. I am not using any
driver from this range for my windows and still windows works fine. Though
I think 1024x768x256 is a wee bit to small to comfortably use on a 14" monitor.
Maybe a 16" or greater would be better.

	Well, I hope that helps. If you need more info on this card, please
feel free to ask me.


Michael