First post, by AjaxIronside
Hello!
I recently installed a Trident 8900D onto my IBM PS/Valuepoint 433SX/D - so far I've got the thing booting with the standard Windows VGA driver as well as the Windows 3.1 SVGA 800x600 driver, both in 16 colors. But any time I try any of the options for 256c, I get a garbled mess of colors. On some of the modes, you can see after restart that the mouse is a rectangle of random colors that you can tell is moving around. In other modes, I'm getting something akin to a Magic Eye that doesn't respond to anything. Restarting the computer and selecting VGA drivers from Windows setup gets me back to a normally responsive 16c resolution - but the whole reason I bought this card was to enable 256 colors on my computer.
The documentation that came with the card is garbage - it's a single sheet that poorly describes jumpers, but only for a different model of card than the one I have. I am using an newer-than-the-computer LCD monitor if that makes any difference. Photos of what the computer looks like at 800x600 16c and then with 256c activated below.
I'd appreciate any help!