First post, by WhatANerd
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Hey everyone. Ok, so I have two 486 systems, both using VLB graphics. One of them uses a Diamond Viper Pro with 2MB of RAM, and I am able to use 16 million colors at 800x600. The other uses a SIIG (CL5429-86Q) that I just upgraded from 1MB to 2MB of RAM. I've verified that the system can see the newly added RAM, but I do not have a 16 million color option at 800x600 resolution with this card - the highest I can get is 64K at 800x600.
The SIIG manual actually says that the maximum of 2MB will only allow for 64K colors at 1024x768 (instead of 256 with 1MB). I get the same results using MS-DOS/W3.x, Windows 95, and NT 3.51. Actually, in NT I cannot get more than 256 colors at 800x600.
What's the deal? Why can the Viper do it with 2MB while the CL5429 cannot? Is there a BIOS setting I need to look into? I don't get it.
- x86: Tandy 1000RL (HD+768K), Tandy 3000HD, 486DX33 VLB, 486DX50 VLB, Packard Bell Force 1998CDT (Pentium 133)
- 68K: Mac Plus 1MB (early), Quadra 700 (2), Quadra 950, Quadra 650
Clock multiplication is too new for me, as you can see!