Bob,

You are 2 days late for April Fool's Day. http://www.hardware.com is the
site of "James Lumber & Ace Hardware" a successful lumber, plywood, building
materials, and hardware supplier located in Poulsbo, Washington.

Jeff Mayem
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: PCBUILD - PC Hardware discussion List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Bob Wright
> Sent: Friday, April 03, 1998 11:33 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Number 9 PCI card vs. TXproII's onboard video
>
>
> At 02:42 PM 3/31/98 , you wrote:
> >I recently acquired a used Number 9 Reality 772 PCI video card w/4 meg
> >vram.  My current system is a TXPro II w/ onboard video that uses 4 megs
> > of my memory.
> > Has anyone had experience, good or bad, with either video adapter?
> > If so, what do you think? Should I disable the onboard and use the PCI?
> > Also, does anyone know where I can get the drivers for the Number 9?
> > Thanks,
> > Casey Marion
>
>
> The site for Number 9 is:  http://www.nine.com
> You can find your drivers there.   A great web site to keep bookmarked
> to rapidly find hardware manufacturers on the web, in case you need
> manuals or drivers is:   http://www.hardware.com    They maintain
> some excellent links.  We also have them listed on PCBUILD's link
> page.
>
> As far as onboard video is concerned, although I have not yet used the
> TX Pro II board you reference, the board I have been using to build
> new systems for the last four months has onboard video and it works
> great.   This board is the ASUS SIS97 motherboard.   It can be configured
> for 1, 2 or 4mg video using system Ram memory.   This onboard video
> has been trouble free in all the systems I have built with the ASUS board.
> It does not support advanced 3-D accelerated features, but it works well
> with secondary video cards such as PCI Video capture cards and PCI
> Television cards.   I know that the early on board video motherboards
> were problematic, but if the board has the feature to disable it using
> a jumper, you should be alright in case it fails or is not
> effective for your
> use.   Then you can add your Number9 card or some other video card.
>
> But, the ASUS SIS97 chipset provides excellent resolutions and high
> refresh rates...  and it is really inexpensive...  *wink*
>
>   Bob
>