Good thing I have a place to rant. didnt know about this forum until I read the survival guide..
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I am tired of waiting around for drivers :)
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I am tired of waiting around for drivers :)
- Box 1:
- dual-boot OS'es: Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional , Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition
- Case (chassis): P.o.S. $35 mid-tower.. (gonna get a new full-tower soon, any recommendations?)
- Video card: Matrox Millenium G400 Max
- Monitor: Hitachi SuperScan Elite 751 (CM751)
- Sound card: Sound Blaster Live! Platinum
- Speakers: Cambridge SoundWorks DeskTop Theater 5.1 DTT2500 Digital
- Motherboard: Abit BP6
- CPU: 2 x Intel Celeron 366 OC'ed to 550 = 1.1 Ghz (;-)
- Memory: 128MB pc133
- Keyboard: Microsoft Internet Keyboard
- Mouse: Microsoft IntelliMouse with IntelliEye
- Hard drive: IBM Deskstar 34 GXP (27gb)
- Printer: Epson Stylus Color 440
- Ethernet card: 3Com EtherLink 10/100 PCI For Complete PC Management NIC (3C905C-TX)
- Floppy drive: Teac 1.44MB
- CD-ROM drive: Plextor UltraPlex 40max
- DVD-ROM drive: I/O Magic MagicDVD 8x
- CD-R drive: Panasonic 7502
- SCSI controller: Diamond Fireport 20
- Scanner: UMAX Astra 2200 (SCSI)
- Modem: SupraExpress 56i Sp V.90
- Webcam: Logitech QuickCam Express
- Box 2:
- operating system: FreeBSD 4.1
- CPU: Intel Pentium 60
- memory: 32 MB
- hard drive: Quantum Fireball 1 GB
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Glad you could have a peek at it and turn what was a bad thing into a good thing Yeah, they lag on drivers sometimes but other times they are fairly consistent. Be patient my friend.
DaveLadies and gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice.
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Sometimes there are no driver updates for weeks or months. Other times, we see 4 drivers in 2 weeks.
But they never hit the weeks/months dead-zone without at least having stability on the drivers.
I prefer this to nVidia's tactic of releasing a driver every 3rd day which is horribly broken in some new way, fixes most of last week's bugs, but crashes the computer 50% of the time anyway.
That's no good. Heh.
- Gurm
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Mr. Cold, I sugest you buy the latest S3 chip whenever that will come onto the market. Fortunately you can't, since S3 graphics division is sold to VIA, and they will now only make integrated sh*t.
I once bought a Hercules Terminator Beast... I think Hercules was one of the best, of not the best board maker on the market at that time. Man, did I HATE that chipset afterwards. S3 used the Savage3D as a public alpha-chip test. The drivers NEVER got completely fixed, because it had hardware design flaws. The Savage4 was the 'final' version of the Savage3D chip.
Moral of the story:
If you once had an experience like I had with the savage3d, you will never rant, complain or anything about matrox again in such a way.
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Mr. Cold, I'm proud of you.
Welcome in!!!
Keep the faith, boys... the end of the tunnel may not be too far off...
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HollyHolly
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NVidia doesn't release drivers every few days. They're "leaked."
There wasn't an official release between October of last year and a week or two ago.
There are serious questions amongst nVidia users about "leaking" and intentionally but unofficially releasing drivers without taking any responsibility for them.
Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net
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