If you have SB Lives in those PC, you need a specific SB Live drivers to prevent the crashes. Also, keep the Matrox cards in 32 bit mode for all of their screens to help prevent crashes.
____________ Brian Guralnick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Wiseman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 4:30 AM Subject: Re: [PEDA] Good Dual head video card combination for Protel. | | | On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Bob Wolfe wrote: | | > Steve, Your source for danger??? Just a question how it was determined | > it was really dual proc that causes Matrox dual head problems. | | All I can offer are some datapoints, since I never got a solution. | | I've had 4 twin-CPU machines, from P-90 under NT3.51 (I think, it was a | while back) to my current P3 under Win2K, and Matrox cards from Millennium | to various G400s. The machines have been variously unstable - crashes | after various times, from minutes to hours. For all machines, running | them as single-CPU from the BIOS, or using other video cards, they'll run | for weeks. The crashes can be subtle, like random redraw defects and icons | getting confused (along with genrally weird behaviour), or glaring, like | instant machine lockups. | The problem is, while Matrox do make my favourite video cards - the best | DACs, and nice tweakable resolutions, I've got work to do, and I can't | spend weeks chasing bugs, or rebooting 5 times a day. A later mail | suggests that I ditch the twin-cpu boxes, and get a separate box for | Specctra - This is on my shopping list - as you say, PCs are now insanely | cheap, but, since the only real justification for this is that I get | sharper pixels on my main machine, it's got to wait behind 'real' work, | since my currnet solution does get the job done. | | Steve | | | * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
