#Diamond Viper
09-Sep-95 16:17:54
Sb: #190020-#Diamond Viper
Fm: Tim Krego, [pro.image] 74513,747
To: Ralph F. Frantz 71534,3133
>I really appreciate this info. So you got your P9000 based Viper to run
(not in vga mode) in high res/high color mode.<
Yes, I had to use the vga driver until I installed SP2. I'm not talking about
the boot options that allow you to choose vga mode, I mean not selecting a
video driver when installing NT.
>If you could just explain what the NT3.5 Service Pack 2 is and where I can
obtain it I would appreciate it.<
NT 3.5 SP2 is various bug fixes and upgrades for NT 3.5. If you have NT 3.51
you don't need it. Since the NT 3.51 Workstation Step-Up is only $19.95 I would
suggest upgrading, then you won't need NT3.5SP2. There is an NT3.51SP1 out now.
Using NT3.51 allows you to install the Win95 Shell.
The Service Packs are on the MS ftp server or in the NT forum on CIS. Since
they are pretty big (8MB) I don't think you would want to d/l them from here.
>The bios on my Viper PCI was 3.10 and Diamonds first suggestion was to
upgrade to the latest (3.13) which I did.<
I think my bios is 1.09 or 2.0x, I can't remember, but it is old. Yes, the PCI
or VLBus shouldn't make a difference.