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  • cbman
    Super MURCer
    • Mar 2001
    • 1136
    #1

    Gigabyte G400?

    Hey all.. I am on my new occasional part time jobs first day (filling in for the owners of one of the local computer stores when they are away)and I was browsin some ordering books they have and in the gigabyte one there is a GA-MG400 (Matrox G400 SH) available in 16 and 32MB varieties.. and at the bottom of the specs it says Gigabyte Mobo Required... anyone in the know about this (Someone else making boards on the MGA-400 Chip? Or just OEM Boards doctored up by Gigabyte..???)

    PS... its on a blue PCB? pretty cool lookin.. LOL...

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    [This message has been edited by cbman (edited 26 March 2001).]
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    • Kruzin
      Jeepin' to the grave
      • Aug 1999
      • 6527
      #2
      The Gigabyte G400 cards have no BIOS on them.
      The video BIOS is built onto the Gigabyte motherboard.
      These cards will only work on specific Giga mobos, and nothing else.
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        • Ant
          Administrator
          • Aug 1999
          • 2375
          #3
          These are freaky cards, I believe the G400 BIOS is actually resident on the motherboard hence the requirement.

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            • cbman
              Super MURCer
              • Mar 2001
              • 1136
              #4
              Talk about dancin with the devil eh...

              What next... a sound card with the speakers built onto the mobo as a requirement... LOL... oh yeah..laptops... *grin*

              Still its pretty interesting...

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                • Ali
                  MURCer
                  • Sep 1999
                  • 718
                  #5
                  Hey a graphics card with BIOS on the mobo. A bit of a fusion isnt it?

                  Ali

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                    • Pace
                      Super MURCer
                      • Feb 2000
                      • 3414
                      #6
                      Nope, that's more like fission
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                        • cbman
                          Super MURCer
                          • Mar 2001
                          • 1136
                          #7
                          Maybe it was an accident... the techs were working on the documents in the lab... they went and got some Tim Hortons Coffee and the clumsy oaf spilt it on the papers... effectivly covering over the bios section... Gigabyte... not wanting to catch some flak from Matrox decided to try to decypher the soggy mess and it ended up in pieces and instead of reading... the cards bios must be updated to work with the gigabyte board it read "the updated cards bios must be with the gigabtye board to work it"

                          Grin... too bad that don't fly because the probably don't have Tim Hortons over there.

                          LOL



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                            • Ali
                              MURCer
                              • Sep 1999
                              • 718
                              #8
                              Here is a review of it if you want.

                              Checking your browser
                              http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1156


                              Ali

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                                • cbman
                                  Super MURCer
                                  • Mar 2001
                                  • 1136
                                  #9
                                  Hey Ali... Thanx... I was looking for that... its amazing what you can find if you look hard enough (or at least in the right spots...)

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                                  Lenovo Ideapad S10e, 2GB, 500GB, 10", OS X 10.5.8

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                                    • JackYi
                                      mini MURCer
                                      • Nov 1999
                                      • 60
                                      #10
                                      Pretty cool deal being that I got a Gigabyte mobo.
                                      If it had DualHead, I should had got that one instead of the G450 I own now.

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