CompuServe Thread

Hi, Nik. I'm still having grief trying to configure 3DS3 and my Matrox MGA Impression 3Mb VL board. It's running on a 32Mb 486/66 clone, and I'm using the VIB3DS driver that I downloaded from here (1.0.5.P1). Here's a copy of a message I posted a couple days ago in Matrox's section of the GRAPHBVE Forum: > I installed my copy of 3DS v3 in mid-November and started leaving messages > in GRAPHBVEN after I was unable to configure the software. I've also been > asking on the ASOFT Forum. The last exchange Dave White [MGI] and I had, > he told me he had the same settings as me and had no problems; the only > difference was that he was using the 807.2 BIOS and I was still on > 807.0… but it's gotta be something else; I received the 807.2 BIOS chip > in the mail on 5 February, have just installed it, and it made no > difference whatsoever. > The software and the dongle are installed. Here's what happens when I try > to configure the driver: > 1. I enter 3DS VIBCFG from the DOS prompt. The config program name screen > and then the actual configuration screen appear. > 2. At Main Display, RCPADI is listed as the driver type. I press enter and > select Vibrant from the list. > 3. I tab to the graphics board field, press return to open the list of > boards and choose Matrox MGA Impression (3Mb). > 4. I choose the first item on the list, 640×480 16 colors,VGA. Then I test > the video mode. It displays perfectly. But I want to use a different > resolution and colour depth. > 5. I go down the list and select 640×480 256 colours and test the video > mode. > Result: haywire display for a couple of seconds, and then a black-screen > and lockup. This happens with every other resolution and colour depth. > I have no idea why I can't configure this setup, as you [Dave White] tell > me it should work. I am not loading MGAVESA.COM or RCMGA.EXP… should I > be? I wouldn't have thought so since each of those has its own display > type to config for. Nik, I heard back from Dave White yesterday and the only thing he could suggest was a memory conflict and that I should try booting with no CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC.BAT. I tried this, and once again, it made no difference. I'm stumped… I've chosen exactly the board I have from the list of boards in the Vibrant setup, and it won't accept anything but plain VGA. Do you have any ideas for me??? Dave