On Sunday 22 September 2002 09:28 pm, you wrote: > S3 Virge can be a nightmare on Windows systems. The company that > produced them is out of business. There are still drivers archived, > although choosing the correct one must be done carefully. You probably > will be o.k. updating for Win98 or maybe even Win98 SE as long as you're > using Win95 drivers (Win98 and SE were expensive bug fixes for Win95) > ... but I wouldn't try it (--from personal experience) on WinMe, Win2K > or WinXP (these are listed for others who read this) because the > available drivers either can't be installed successfully (windows > doesn't recognize or use them) or they crash the card. > > Have you considered changing to a more mainstream card? > > Erik <SNIP> I remeber in about 1996 or 7 (maybe 98) S3 had a program for resellers and repair centers that advertised that S3 would not question and would automatically give an RMA number and a new (equal memory, different chipset) videocard for any virge based card as an effort to be rid of this card. the flyer I saw about it came from a distributor (I think it was Merisol) that had the "headline" "help us purge the Virge".
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