greetings, earthlings
we have now taken over your radioooo.....

   hello Dave.

 answering a msg of <joi 10 iunie 1999>, from Dave Gillett to All:


I have just bought a G200...

 DG>   I use one with the VA-503+, which I believe is using MVP3.  Early
 DG> G200s
 DG> got very hot, and even my later one seems to run warmer than I'd like.
 DG> I'm seriously considering adding a heatsink to the *back* of the card.

Mine seems to be manufactured around august 1998 (altought I bought it
brand-new, sealed, from a local store!) and it is really hot. But hence the
card was designed to work at this temperature, I don't think this could be a
real problem, and definitely not a choosing criteria.
 DG> an hour of inactivity.  It appears that lately, if it does this, the card
 DG> jumps to some frequency that my poor MultiSync 4FG monitor can't handle,
 DG> and power off is the only recovery.

If you have an Award BIOS (I don't know about AMI) you colud try changing in
the Power Management section the Video Off Method. There are several options,
including "Blank Screen". That should be supported by any monitor :-)

 DG> drivers from Matrox's site and will be installing them.  [Matrox seem to
 DG> be better than most video card makers at issuing revised drivers and BIOS
 DG> updates for their cards, even for models that are 2-3 years old; these
 DG> often provide performance improvements rather than bug fixes....]

Well, Matrox is well-known for putting quality first, that's one of the reasons
I decided to go for it. It cannot be compared under any aspect to the no-name
S3-based boards I have tried before.


Miron.

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