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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