First post, by feipoa
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I have been having the most difficult of times getting an ATI FireGL X1 256M APGro card working. I have had 4 cards in total. The test boards are a Tyan dual Tualatin and a Supermicro dual Tualatin.
1st card - screen shows artifacts straight away at power on, but can still view BIOS, DOS and Windows.
2nd card - doesn't show any artifacts at power on, but after about a minute in Windows (with drivers installed), artifacts start to appear. Over the course of a few minutes, the quantity of artifacts on the screen increases.
3rd card - the screen stays blank at power on, however I can hear the computer booting to a floppy, the HDD, etc. If I use a DVI to VGA adapter, the card will display the first second of the screen when it comes to life, e.g. the point just before memory count starts. However, the screen stays frozen on that screen and the computer continues to boot with this frozen screen.
4th card - exactly the same outcome as the 3rd, except I have to give the fan a little kick with my finger to start spinning.
Cards 1/2 are from the same source. Cards 3/4 are from the same source, but not the same as cards 1/2. It is interesting how cards from the same supplier exhibit similar behaviours. Are there slight variances in OEM versions of these cards? I was under the impression that all of these were Dells, that is, only DELL had the AGPPRO FireGL X1 in 256M.
Does anyone have any idea what is going on with these? Has anyone been able to get one of these cards working? I suspect there isn't a compatibility problem because card #2 worked just fine, albeit with some artifacts after time. It was able to run 3DMark2001SE just fine.
Cards 1&2 had been returned. Cards 3/4 I still have in possession. Why do I want one of these cards? From a historical perspective, I think it would be neat to have at least one working AGP PRO card in my ultimate dual Tualatin setup.
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