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First post, by tanasen

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Today I went retro hunting to a technical school and found this particular PCI video card. I inserted it in my win98 pc and was recognised as a PCI VGA adapter, but I couldn't get a signal out of it, so it must be some kind of video accelerator. I cannot find any info about this card anywhere or any drivers, so this is where I need your help. I suppose it must be compatible with Pinnacle Studio 9 or previous versions.
https://imgur.com/a/O0dNO

PC1😜 III-S 1.4GHz, GA-6VTXE, 512MB SDRAM, Albatron FX5900XTV 128MB, SB Live! 5.1
PC2😜 III 800MHz, MS-6178, 256MB SDRAM, 3DFX Voodoo3 2000 PCI, Creative CT4810
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Reply 1 of 3, by weldum

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Maybe is a capture card of some kind, you could try in a XP or Win2000 machine and see if it gets some driver installed, also you can use some hardware identification software like Aida64, HWinfo or SiSofware Sandra to try to see what card do you have

DT: R7-5800X3D/R5-3600/R3-1200/P-G5400/FX-6100/i3-3225/P-8400/D-900/K6-2_550
LT: C-N2840/A64-TK57/N2600/N455/N270/C-ULV353/PM-1.7/P4-2.6/P133
TC: Esther-1000/Esther-400/Vortex86-366
Others: Drean C64c/Czerweny Spectrum 48k/Talent MSX DPC200/M512K/MP475

Reply 2 of 3, by Baoran

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Most likely has some kind of industrial use . Perhaps it is used to run some special display and doesn't output signal that normal displays understand. If it has an FCC ID, it could be often used to find out it's purpose.

Reply 3 of 3, by tanasen

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Update: I used SiSofware Sandra and found out the product id
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Then I downloaded the Pinnacle DV/AV 32bit driver installer and also used the DriverMAx utility but nothing worked. I've also contacted with Corel and they told me this product is unsupported and sent me a list of all available Pinnacle drivers for older products http://cdn.pinnaclesys.com/SupportFiles/Hardw … /readmeHW10.htm
I will try the Studio Deluxe version 1 and Studio DC10Plus drivers but I know that this is far fetched. At the same time I'm also searching for a copy of Pinnacle Studio (for xp).

edit: I tried the above drivers and nothing worked. Also installed Pinnacle Studio 9.3 but didn't have any compatible embedded drivers.

PC1😜 III-S 1.4GHz, GA-6VTXE, 512MB SDRAM, Albatron FX5900XTV 128MB, SB Live! 5.1
PC2😜 III 800MHz, MS-6178, 256MB SDRAM, 3DFX Voodoo3 2000 PCI, Creative CT4810
PC3😜 MMX 200MHz, SY-5EAS5, 128MB SDRAM, Diamond Monster 3D, Diamond Viper V330, ESS 1868F