New 2000 drivers on Matrox's FTP

[everettes]

Downloading now to give them a try.

[Rags]

I believe these are just drivers that are Microsoft Certified, no named fixes in this release.

Rags

[everettes]

It might be a coincidence then. I haven't gotten the typical blue screen yet. But it's only been 15 minutes. And I'd swear it was a hair faster in UT.


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Dual PIII500, CC820, 2 x 128 Crucial PC100CAS2, 2940U2W, Seagate Cheetah,G400-32 SH, Plextor 8\20, Plextor 40Max, SBLive!, MS FFPro, Altec Lansing ACS-48, Sony CDP 520GS

[Rags]

Yeah, everettes, the 5.04 drivers are the MS Certified ones. Didn't you notice that you didn't get the warning about unsigned drivers?

Rags

[everettes]

I knew they were the certified ones. But was hoping there were a few improvements. If these are the ecact same as the last release, I'll eat my shorts. It might not be much, but something has changed since the 5.03 release.

BTW, I have my ketchup ready just in case.



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Dual PIII500, CC820, 2 x 128 Crucial PC100CAS2, 2940U2W, Seagate Cheetah,G400-32 SH, Plextor 8\20, Plextor 40Max, SBLive!, MS FFPro, Altec Lansing ACS-48, Sony CDP 520GS

[everettes]

I guess we'll know tommorrow. I've gotta go study. Two MS exams on Monday. I'll finish reading my newsgroups, then I'm off to the coffee, C-Span and books. Nice to know I'm not the only night owl. But then again I have no idea where you are. Might be early there. 1am here (EST) in Virginia.

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Dual PIII500, CC820, 2 x 128 Crucial PC100CAS2, 2940U2W, Seagate Cheetah,G400-32 SH, Plextor 8\20, Plextor 40Max, SBLive!, MS FFPro, Altec Lansing ACS-48, Sony CDP 520GS

[Rags]

Not very early here, either. I live in the mountain time zone

Rags

[franksch3]

It must be new drivers since the package is again a big bit smaller. Let's see:

The beta drivers started out at 4.2 MB like the Win 9x ones.

5.03 is 3.4 MB

and

5.04 is 3.0 MB

[Rags]

Yeah, they are different drivers. But, as I said, these are for MS Certification, there aren't any named fixes in this release...only changes to get MS Certified.

Rags

[APV]

How do you install the new drivers? simply overwrite the 5.03 or what special procedure I have to follow TIA

[Rags]

Just run the setup (as long as you are logged on with Admin Privelages).

Rags

[kewlcat]

Awright!

The new drivers fixed my UT crashes with dual processors. Can one of the beta boyz confirm whether these drivers are actually SMP-fixed?

Rahul

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Abit BP6, Dual Celeron 366@550, G400 32MB DualHead, 256MB RAM, WD26500 6.4GB, SBLive! Value.
Running Mandrake 7.0 and Windows 2000.

[APV]

thanks rags

[Rags]

Rahul,

No, they aren't the "SMP fixed" drivers. As I said before, the only changes were for MS Certification.

Rags

[Surfwienix]

the ftp-server is down :-(