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The G400 with 32 RAM just landed in Singapore only this weekend.
Guess its price. USD 176 for a retail box. Don't pay too much for it.
Will use it for a new system I gonna build.
Anybody tried putting a 2nd non G400 card to work 3 monitors?
Or the 2nd card also be G400.
At 12:15 PM 7/18/99 -0400, NHBob wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: James Fulton
>To: omega-list
>Sent: Friday, July 16, 1999 10:40 PM
>Subject: Re: Dual Monitor card
> Just for everyone's info
><snip>
>It is the new Matrox G400 (32mg RAM).......(snip)
> yea Joe it's a great card if you can get your hands on it. <snip>
>Noproduction problems just new product demand.
> -=-jimmy-=-
>
>Ok, well as promised, my initial report on the G400; received a pair a week
>ago; I opted for the 8meg/channel version from thier online store, cost me a
>tad over $300 for the pair, which they shipped a week later than promised.
>The driver CD has the latest NT4 W9x drivers, so no additional downloads
>required. The documentation is really slim, however, and it appears from
>discussion w/tech support that it is not unusual for NT installations to
>require a "complete uninstall" then reinstall.
>
>I have 2 P-II/400's w/256M, 2 17" monitors. My Primary is straight, pure
>NT4SP5, PS2Ki end-of-day only, trading programs only. Secondary is
>dual-boot W98FAT16/NT4SP5, for real time PCquote if/when omega gets its act
>together. Or if TraderWare justifies being moved from system#3. Since RT
>stable omega is not here yet, G400 gets installed first on the Secondary,
>more complicated dual-boot..
>
>My first atempt was not successful, the setup program defaulted to
>installing on my internal Zip & could not be persuaded to do otherwise.
>Tech support emailed the uninstall proceedure, including registry edits,
>which worked successfully. This G400 dual monitor implementation is quite
>diffferent from the results with W98 native dual monitors: In my W98 prior
>setup, two different video boards gave me one monitor w/desktop, and a
>second monitor to which I could click&drag application windows (and of
>course a blank second monitor under NT4). In NT, the G400 stretches the
>desktop across 2 monitors, so no click&drag is necessary. Icons, task bar,
>everything is spread out. So the "x" close-winndow button is now way over
>there, in the top right corner of the right hand monitor. W9x s/b the same.
>
>In TS, multiple window displays:charts, search, analysis, tracking, etc work
>well with /view/arrange/vertical. Especially if there are 2 or 4 windows
>open, nothing straddles the area between monitors. Its great to see
>everything that's going on at once w/o constantly moving stuff around to see
>"what's under". Looks real promising.
>
>My dual-boot's W98 install of the G400 isn't yet right, will take another
>call to tech support Monday, in large part because there's virtually nothing
>in the install manual (about 1/4" thick, but its in 20 languages, so its
>about 10 pages each). I can't get second monitor to operate at the same
>1024x resolution as the primary.
>
>Clearly there's lots of versatility in G400 as referenced by the others
>here, but my only interest is trading (TS2Ki) efficiency. I like it so far,
>better than the native W98 dual monitor implementation, but it'll take a
>week of toying to see if the setup time gets paid back. If she runs a week
>w/o problems, system #1 is next.
>
>BTW, I have this thread to thank for the painful but necessary decision to
>convert to NT4. Not just for TS2Ki/TW or whatever, but for the advice that
>no significant $ s/b risked on any real-time system running W98 when there's
>a suitable & affordable alternative. Its a good move, ahh life w/o crashes.
>Lack of PNP will just force discipline in keeping configurations unchanged
>once working. No more "latest gee-whiz", games, chats, betas etc on trading
>station system.
>
>For others considering the same move, I got NT4 retail version off ZDNet
>Auction for $145; unless you know NT4, avoid the cheaper OEM versions since
>you get no free tech support from MS like the retail version gets you for 90
>days.
>thanks again
>nhbob
>
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