Re: Micron Pentium Pro/Imagine 128 problem

Well I too have been plagued with trying to reach Number Nine Tech support. The problem is that your Imagine 128 has 2 MB of RAM when running with a proper driver to enable it. Otherwise (like in DOS, OS2, linux, etc...) it uses its VGA emulation chip with only 512k of DRAM. I found this out when I wanted to run Xwindows on linux... I thought I'd be cool with 4 MB VRAM but then suddenly I only get 512k of RAM. Bummer, huh? Oh yeah, Duke3d and the rest of the cool DOS games run kind of lousy also.

My recommendation? Take it back. Get a Matrox Millenium card. They are fast, have good driver support, and work excellent in most any OS.

Good luck.

Oh, yeah. If you get through to those guys at Number Nine, tell 'em to return my phone calls. It's been over 4 months now.

Pstu_at_sierra.net wrote:

>The video board that came with the machine was a Diamond
>Stealth 3d. It has no OS/2 support, so I returned it.

Good... Death to Diamond.

>I then installed a Number Nine Imagine 128 PCI with 2MB
>VRAM. It claims to have OS/2 support, but if I run
>it in any mode other than 640x480 VGA (ugh!) I get a lot
>of random hoizontal lines on my screen that look like echos
>of other video lines.
 

>There is also something funny about the way the video drivers
>install. When I go to selective install, it says my primary
>video driver is VGA. I then select the Number Nine stuff,
>and proceed with the installation. After reboot,
>the horizontal lines appear and if I return to selective install
>it says I've got VGA installed.
 

>Does anyone have any ideas about this?
>Do you know if my Micron just won't run OS/2 with
>high resolution graphics? Or is there something special I
>have to do to get the Imagine 128 board running?
 

>As for customer service, Micron just says they don't support
>OS/2, and Number Nine hasn't returned my calls (its been 2 days).
Received on Sat Aug 17 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST