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HP branded Matrox Millennium II ?

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First post, by p6889k

Posted on 2020-02-03, 19:48

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I see on eBay bunch of HP branded millennium II cards? Are these same as vanilla/retail Matrox cards? It seems that these were pulled from outdated hp computers. Visually I can’t tell anything unique about them except sticker with product number that says HP. Could it have different bios/firmware? Want to make sure there’s nothing surprising about them that would make them problematic in non HP PC.

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Reply 1 of 2, by The Serpent Rider

Posted on 2020-02-03, 20:10

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Those are not HP manufactured cards, they were just sold by Matrox specifically to HP as OEM spare parts (upgrade, customer warranty, etc). I think, only Compaq did their own Matrox cards of that era. Then again, maybe they had a contract with Matrox to manufacture Compaq branded cards for them.

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Reply 2 of 2, by derSammler

Posted on 2020-02-03, 20:12

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Not sure about HP, but the OEM cards Matrox made for Compaq had lower specs than the normal ones. In any case, they will run just fine in any non-HP system.

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