First post, by stamasd
Does anyone here have alternate drivers for DEC/Compaq PowerStorm 300 PCI cards under Windows NT 4.0 Alpha? I tried the ones from vogonsdrivers and they don't work for me. I can install them and the installation succeeds without errors, but after I reboot I have no image at all. Blank monitor, no video signal.
At first I thought maybe the card doesn't function properly, but since then I have tried another PowerStorm 300 card and I have the same result.
The host system is a DEC AlphaPC 164 with a 500MHz 21164 Alpha, 512MB RAM, Win NT 4.0 SP6 Alpha. Fresh install, no other additions. I have tried all 4 PCI slots but it doesn't change the result. The card works in ARC (the firmware, analog to BIOS) and in NT without drivers installed; no image after NT boots with drivers installed.
I have tried another set of drivers I found on the net that were labeled as being for Compaq PowerStorm 300 NT Alpha, but those cannot be installed; they're I think not for Alpha but for x86. It's found in this file here: ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq//sp10001-10500/sp10415.exe (readme at ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq//sp10001-10500/sp10415.txt)
I/O, I/O,
It's off to disk I go,
With a bit and a byte
And a read and a write,
I/O, I/O