Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:24:20 +0000
From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works!
From: "Michael Heathcote" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Today I gave the card a go in the 100CT, and after reading many posts over
the years with people not been able to get the card to work in the 100 or
110CT, I was quite shocked when it worked!
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Wow.... I'm bown away here on the dialogue about getting the Margi
DVD-to-Go card to work. Michael Heathcote (quoted above and below) indicated
that he got his up and running in Win95 with only the small hitch of having
to replace the driver Win95 loaded with the proper one that came with the
card!
Seems that was the OS the margi card was tweaked for. And I'd guess Win95
was probably the lease resource hungry of the beasts that followed.
From what Avi has been talking about, I'm not sure if he's running Win98 or
Win2000 with the card. He spoke about replacing an existing Win98 driver
with the same from Win2000... and I assumed that meant his Margi card was
working in Win98.
But from Avi's dialogues with Phillip, it sounds like he's got the card
working in Win2000, or both Win2000 >and< Win98.
So I'm extremely tempted at this point to dig my card out of storeage, set
up Win95 on my 100's 20GB HDD, and do some testing myself here. Video
encoded to MPEG-2 files would look a lot sharper than the ones I've been
re-encoding with MPEG1 compression with Tsunami.
Matt
From: "Michael Heathcote" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: Libretto <libretto@basiclink.com>
Subject: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works!
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:38:35 -0800
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:16:42 -0000
From: "Michael Heathcote" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Margi DVD-to-Go card works!
I've been a member of this list for over 6 years or more, but I have not
used my 50CT for quite a while since buying a Portege 3490CT. The main
problem of the 50CT been lack of 32 bit cardbus & USB with modern
peripherals.
While surfing on ebay last week I noticed a 100CT going for a good price
with only a few minutes left, an impulse bid and I won!
For only 87 pounds I now have a 100CT, std & extended batteries, standard
dock, enhanced dock, power supply & floppy. Well pleased! Unmodified
standard clock speed, original HDD but unfortuately only the on board 32MB
RAM...you can't have it all I guess!!!
Now a few years ago I bought a Margi DVD-to-Go card with dongle for my
Portege, but at the time I did not realise the Portege was not Zoom Video
supported, so the card has not been used.
Today I gave the card a go in the 100CT, and after reading many posts over
the years with people not been able to get the card to work in the 100 or
110CT, I was quite shocked when it worked!
Presently the 100CT is running windows 95 with only 32MB Ram running at
166MHz. What I did notice was that windows automatically loaded the
incorrect driver for the card when first inserted and did not initially
work. Updating the driver for the correct one from Margi solved the
problem.
Full screen seemless DVD playback & audio playing a DVD from my 16 bit
PCMCIA 4x Argosy external DVD ROM drive. Amazing!
Now that I know it works I am going to change the HDD for something larger
and load Windows 98SE for the USB support. Hope the Margi DVD-to-Go card
works okay under Windows 98SE!
Now a quick question. Does it matter whether I use 100CT or 110CT drives
for
my 100CT? There appears to be more drivers available for the 110CT on the
Toshiba website for 98SE.
Thanks,
Mike.
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