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Matrox G200 PCI 8MB video card, quick test

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Reply 20 of 23, by dr.zeissler

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I tested G200 AGP cards before, now I got my hands on a G200-PCI and I have encountered some serious problems.

- Win9x 552 Driver works with lowres <512x384 the newer ones do not work for 320x200/320x400/400x300 regardless if windows or dos within windows.
- Using a dos-programm the fallback to the desktop leads to a blackscreen

Beside that it's a really good card.

Retro-Gamer 😀 ...on different machines

Reply 21 of 23, by Nemo1985

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I'm sorry for the bump. I just stumbled upon this card on my stash, which I also dropped accidentaly on the floor as noticeable from the bandy bracket.
I wasn't able to find any information about this card but I suppose is another model of G200 pci?
It's labelled as 832 00 rev A. it had a heatsink one of the push pins was missing so I took it off and took the chance to remove the dried thermal paste, the back side says G2+/MVP/8I
Even the dimension is bigger than the one from retro games 100.
Anyone knows if there is any difference? I will need to get a new heatsink before actually try it.

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Reply 22 of 23, by toguro123

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Looks like a Marvel G200 PCI. It featured a breakout cable which provided TV in/out and coax in for TV tunning. That Zoran chip is a MPEG hardware encoder/decoder.

Reply 23 of 23, by Nemo1985

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toguro123 wrote on 2024-09-11, 00:26:

@Nemo1985

Looks like a Marvel G200 PCI. It featured a breakout cable which provided TV in/out and coax in for TV tunning. That Zoran chip is a MPEG hardware encoder/decoder.

Thank you in the meanwhile I also found the card it's not working, unlucky...