On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 03:05:31PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > > Next up for evaluation in my PWS 433au will be a non-ATI-branded > Radeon 7500 by PowerColor (slogan: "Best game card in the world"). > > Jay et. al.: is there anything special about the officially blessed > 3X-PBXGG-AA other than the $319 price I found at one on-line store?
Only the guarantee to work with Tru64 and VMS... ;-} It IS an OEM'ed card from ATI, but don't think there's anything special in the BIOS. > I expect the video BIOS is fairly crucial depending on the OS, and > I *have* seen the reports of problems involving non-ATI-branded cards. If the SRM console can get it successfully through its BIOS emulator and into console text mode, you should be OK. > In spite of that, I'm giving the PowerColor card a try because I got > it (will have it early next week) for approx. $300 less than the Compaq > version :-). I've had good luck (pre Xorg 7.0) with a VisionTek 9100 (R200 chipset, which sadly appears unavailable lately), but IIRC all my 7500's are the OEM'ed version. I think some folks have had success with 9250's, but also pre-7.0. --Jay++ --------------------------------------------------------------- Jay A Estabrook HPTC - XC I & B Hewlett-Packard Company - ZKO1-3/D-B.8 (603) 884-0301 110 Spit Brook Road, Nashua NH 03062 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
