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Introduction
I am testing an Orchid Kelvin 64-ISA VGA card. It uses the Cirrus Logic CL-GD5434 chip. It has 1MB of RAM onboard, and this is upgradeable to 2MB. I understand that it is important to upgrade the card's RAM, to get the most out of it. I tried to do that, and my failure at doing this is documented below in the "Questions" section.
1) Link to the Windows 3 driver. Filename is K64-14.ZIP. I found it here (mpoli files).
Notes
1) The included kinstall set up program is for use with the Orchid Kelvin 64-ISA VGA card. It's version 1.4. However, I don't know if it is the final version. It also includes a couple of DOS utilities.
Questions
1) Solved, please see my next post below. I tried to populate the two empty RAM sockets on the card. I was not successful. The card still tells me that only 1024Kb of memory is installed. The information on all of the card's chips say -
Info seen on the "factory supplied" soldered chips:
NEC
42S4260-70
9423MEO13
Info seen on the "add on" socketed chips:
9312 A USA
MT 4C16260DJ
-7
I guess the socketed chips are not compatible with this card. I have spotted some other chips on ebay, here. The information on these chips say:
NEC
42S4260-70
9341MU500
The second line (42...) info seen on this ebay advert's chip is identical to the "factory supplied" soldered chips seen on the card. My guess is that buying these would be a good idea, and these "add on" chips will likely work. However, they are not cheap. Can anyone find anything cheaper, please?
2) I couldn't find a Windows 95 driver for this card on the internet. I wonder if one was written for it? I installed the card on a Windows 98 system, and I was able to load a "generic" Cirrus Logic driver from the Windows 98 CD-ROM. However, I prefer to get the manufacturer's driver, because the drivers found on the Win9x CD-ROMs are "bare bones" drivers, and include nothing extra to mess about with. Does anyone have a Windows 95 driver for this VGA card, please?
3) With the "generic" Win9x driver installed for this card, the graphics on the screen look "washed out" and too bright. Is that something to do with a colour and/or gamma correction problem? If there was a specific driver available from the manufacturer, perhaps it would address this issue? However, as a second best resort, perhaps there is a "full featured" win9x driver available, for the CL-GD5434 chip I could try? Does anyone have one, please?
The card