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Thriller 3D and 100Htz

rswe

Thriller 3D and 100Htz

by rswe » Sun, 14 Jun 1998 04:00:00

Anyone having problems getting the Hercules Thriller, or any card to run
on a 100Htz motherboard? Have an ASUS P2B, and when I tried to jump the
board at 100Htz, got no video!

Thank
Rick Sweeney

Will Fivea

Thriller 3D and 100Htz

by Will Fivea » Sat, 20 Jun 1998 04:00:00


>Anyone having problems getting the Hercules Thriller, or any card to run
>on a 100Htz motherboard? Have an ASUS P2B, and when I tried to jump the
>board at 100Htz, got no video!

<Rant mode on>

Sorry, I can't help you with your problem.  I have also had problems with
my Hercules 8MB PCI Thriller and unfortunately the technical support is a
joke.  For example, I told them that the screen stayed black and would
not recover after using power-saving standy mode in Win95.  Their
response was they thought it might be fixed in an upcoming patch.  That's
nice.  I wonder what else "might" be fixed (I've asked them to be more
specific but they decided not to reply).  And what is hillarious is the
demo of the game Incomming that came with the Thriller doesn't run
properly on the Thriller but works on the Pure3d (Voodoo based) card I
have.  The tech person said it would be fixed "soon".  BTW, using email
it takes them at least 2 weeks to respond.

BTW, I've also dealt with Canopus and so far their tech support is much
more responsive email-wise.
<Rant mode off>

--
Will Fiveash

Rick Sween

Thriller 3D and 100Htz

by Rick Sween » Mon, 22 Jun 1998 04:00:00


says...


> >Anyone having problems getting the Hercules Thriller, or any card to run
> >on a 100Htz motherboard? Have an ASUS P2B, and when I tried to jump the
> >board at 100Htz, got no video!

> <Rant mode on>

> Sorry, I can't help you with your problem.  I have also had problems with
> my Hercules 8MB PCI Thriller and unfortunately the technical support is a
> joke.  For example, I told them that the screen stayed black and would
> not recover after using power-saving standy mode in Win95.  Their
> response was they thought it might be fixed in an upcoming patch.  That's
> nice.  I wonder what else "might" be fixed (I've asked them to be more
> specific but they decided not to reply).  And what is hillarious is the
> demo of the game Incomming that came with the Thriller doesn't run
> properly on the Thriller but works on the Pure3d (Voodoo based) card I
> have.  The tech person said it would be fixed "soon".  BTW, using email
> it takes them at least 2 weeks to respond.

> BTW, I've also dealt with Canopus and so far their tech support is much
> more responsive email-wise.
> <Rant mode off>

> --
> Will Fiveash

Think of the folks who just buy a puter for the first time and do not
know or care about 90% of the shit everyone goes thru with software or
hardware. They just want it to work and discover they have to invest an
enormas amount of time and money to keep everything straight. I get
frustrated, but I find it interesting sometimes, tweaking and what have
you. Do not know where this is all going. At least Gates and company are
trying to create standards, maybe that will be the saving grace. I work
as an systems engineer on mid-range systems for a bank. If we did not
have and follow a set of standards there would be no bank.

Anyway thanks for the response, and good luck. By the way I got the
thriller to work at 100MHz with an PII 300, but the system was very
unstable, Windows crashing all over the place. Urghh!


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