Well, Well, Well, I dropped back into that 2nd hand shop, and Lo! now I have a Matrox G400 32 Mb Dual Head! And only $35 poorer! About the same price as a single head card of similar performance/vintage.

It appears to have a /DELL part number, but I cannot find any alleged 'serial number'. It also has a small fan.

I have gone to Matrox, and got the alleged Win98 driver, and looked at the 'unified' drivers, but some files seem to not want to download at moment. I will be waiting a couple of weeks to do a 'hack session' - I have a lot of minor HW twiddling to do which I have been putting off, and I will do it all at once.

Can I get extra memory to upgrade the Matrox eaasily?

I will put the drivers in an easy to find place, shut down, plug in the card, disable the onboard video in the BIOS, and let Plug and Pray find the card, etc.

Any further tips?


BTW, I am getting the 'crawlies' on the new screen (old one did it too) - interference slowly rippling up - possibly due to power line interference - we have 'hot water time switching' pulses here - some are sometimes so strong that my UPS reacts to them. I do have some ferrite clamp ons, but mayme not enough.