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to: JEFF GUERDAT
from: PETER LANE-COLLETT
date: 1998-02-08 07:27:00
subject: Windows NT question...

Jeff, at 07:04 on Fri, Feb 06 1998, you wrote to Peter Lane-collett ...
JG> Personal opinions aside, the FAT32 drive *is* an issue if you want to 
JG> access it from NT or if it's the boot partition (NT can't boot from a 
FAT32 
JG> C: drive).
The checkout program did not work on friends' machines without FAT32 yet NT 
did run.
JG> The video driver is also an issue - if it's not in the supported list, 
you 
JG> may not get the features you desire (maybe plain ol' VGA) unless S3 (or 
the 
JG> card's manufacturer) has a driver for it.  I would expect that the video 
JG> card is supported but wasn't available when NT 4.0 was introduced. You 
JG> can't support what isn't in existence...
Windows 95 supports the Diamond Video 3000 VRAM as a general S3 accelerated 
card. It's just that NT does not support that particular 968 chip. It was out 
long before NT4.
Regards, Peter
peter.lc@uq.net.au  ----  http://www.uq.net.au/~zzplanec
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