From: cmenser@nyx.cs.du.edu (Charles Menser) Subject: Re: How to get rid of your Diamond Speedstar 24 Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 03:10:24 GMT
In article <1992Jul22.232501.27215@sinkhole.unf.edu> shite@sinkhole.unf.edu (Stephen Hite) writes:
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> I ordered the HIColor and I got the DS 24. I called back High-Tech USA
>in the Computer Shopper and here's how the conversation went:
>
>Me: I received the wrong graphics card from you. I didn't order the
> DS 24, I ordered the DS HIColor with the 15-bit RamDac chip.
>
>HT: ...but it's a better card.
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>Me: ...but I'm not running DOS, I'm on Unix using X and the proprietary
> nature of the card makes it unsuitable for my purposes (namely, to
> drive X386).
>
>HT: ahhh, okay...
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>Me: I really don't care about the high color feature, so why don't we do
> this...I understand you have the Orchid Prodesigner IIs. This will
> fit my needs. Give me an RMA number, I'll send you the
> DS 24 and you send me the OP IIs and we'll call it an even swap.
Is this the EISA version of the Orchid? If not, is the EISA version an
ET4000?
>
>HT: sounds good.
>
> Well, what I lose is the UPS ground to send the DS 24 to them and I want
>them to send me the OP IIs UPS blue (about $7), so I lose $10 from the
>original deal. I blow ten dollars hitting 2 large buckets of golf balls
>at the driving range so I can live with this. ;-)
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> I got e-mail from several people already saying that they've tried to
>get information out of Diamond Computer about setting the clocks on
>the DS 24 and they've gotten the cold shoulder.
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> In summary, try to get a swap for the Diamond Speedstar+ or the
>Orchid Prodesigner IIs (very common card for vendors to carry and the
>ones from '92 have an 80 dot clock according to the X386 mode database).
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> Good luck to the ones trying to figure out how to set the clocks or
>disassembling VMODE and porrting the vital parts to GAS.
>
> There /is/ a HiColor version of the Orchid Prodesigner IIs but I'm
>too chicken to get this one for fear of there being something funky
>with that as well (then I'm back to square 1).
>
>Steve Hite
>shite@sinkhole.unf.edu