Thanks Errius, it'll be a while before I can pony up the cash for a new cable, so that's kinda disappointing. But thanks for spotting it. I'll set aside further troubleshooting until I can get a new cable then. 😀

Here's a better picture of the card in question. This is the dual-monitor version of the card, a lot of the search results for G200 MMS come back with the Quad-monitor variant. Disappointing to learn that it's slower than an actual G200, but I don't suppose I was going to be getting the most out of …

System Setup: I recently bought a couple of Matrox Millennium G200 cards from an ebay seller, here's the card for reference . This is a dual-output variation that requires a splitter to function, which I grabbed from here . The processor I'm running is an AMD 486 DX4 100 running at 100MHz, and I …

Well since updating my motherboard BIOS, the 486 computer does boot all the way up without errors, I just can't see it happen because the card doesn't output a video signal. I suppose the thread title no longer reflects my current problem, so I'll update it. Now the problem is my Matrox Millennium …

Yeah, I've reset the BIOS. And then I somehow managed to track down some BIOS updates for the R418 over here: http://www.elhvb.com/supportbios.info/Archives/BIOS/R-S/RISE/R418/AWARD/index.html After applying the BIOS updates, the system no longer fails to boot with just the Matrox card installed. …

Thanks for the reply Fitzpatr, I thought the board may have been DOA, various utilities from the manufacturer weren't able to see the card's BIOS version. So I reached out to the seller, who sent me another for the cost of shipping, which was pretty generous I think. I just plugged it in this …

I recently purchased a Matrox Millennium G200 from eBay with the intent of putting it into my DOS/Windows 98 machine, and I've been having a doozy of a time getting it to work. My motherboard is an M-Tech R418 with no onboard video. Currently I'm using an ISA Trident VGA card, which seems to work …

Excellent! I realized I could remove the black plastic shrouding from the ribbon cable connection to the RS232 plug, and realized I could simply re-solder the connector in the correct method! Booted up the PC to windows 95 and it's alive! IT'S ALIVE! Feels great, like I've just conquered the …

Thank you! I just checked and it looks like I do NOT have ground continuity using this bracket. I went ahead and checked pin5 of the header against ground, and that pin DOES have continuity, as shown here . So I think this would indicate my board has the normal style header pinout, whereas the …

Hey there! I somewhat recently rescued a 486 computer from an e-waste junkyard and have been trying to resurrect it for some fun DOS and Win95 fun! Slowly but surely, I've been making my way through the restoration process and have stumbled upon a problem with getting my serial mouse to work that I …

@mcobit I've been lurking these forums on and off for the last few months as I've been restoring an old 486 computer. While perusing YouTube I came across your project, and found a link to this thread, and had to create an account just to say that this project is just awesome! I'd love to make one …