Has anyone ever tried an Expert3D lite or an XVR-500 in a Blade
1000/2000 66MHz PCI Slot?
Do they work?

Why the Expert3D lite manual recommends not to install in PCI slot 1
(66MHz)?
Is it only a cooling problem or is there more?
HD

I tried an Expert3D lite in a Sun Blade 1000 PCI slot 1 (66 MHz).

The adapter is seen by the OPB and it looks fine, but than Solaris (10
6/06) complains with a "WARNING turn off the system and move the Expert
to a 33 MHz slot, blah, blah" at boot.
Furthermore "fbconfig -list" does not show the card as available.

It must the OS driver that excludes the card after having detected it
in the "wrong" slot.

Anyway, now, even in a 33MHz slot I can finally watch AVI's, full
screen. Much better than a PGX64 and a great value for money in 2D
compared to an XVR-500 which is still rated high on eBay. I do not
think that I will ever use the 3D features.

HD

In article <1161257857.837876.194840@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups. com>,
haydude <haydude@alpensea.com> wrote:
>Has anyone ever tried an Expert3D lite or an XVR-500 in a Blade
>1000/2000 66MHz PCI Slot?
>Do they work?

I've had a XVR-500 in a 66MHz Blade 1000 slot for years wo problems.
Fredrik

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Fredrik Lundholm
dol @ ce.chalmers.se