On 2016-04-14 4:14 AM, Simone Mannori wrote:
Do you know if c8000 can setup any non HP card (e.g., ATI Rage XL)? It was reported that
>some old cards would work with PDC firmware in unaccelerated fb mode, but c8000 has
>x86 emulator so it might be able to enable accelerated 2d/3d.
Good hint. I have several "vintage" PCI video cards to try (including
ATI RAGE, Vodoo, etc.) but I can't because the have 5V PCI interface.
HP c8000 have several PCI slots BUT PCI 3.3 volt ONLY. Find
"universal" 5V/3V PCI card is possible but the only cards that I have
find (the ATI 9200 128Mega) fails at "BIOS" time (see the first
message of this thread).
It seems to me that an AGP card might be a better option. The C8000
manual indicates that
it has one AGP 8X Pro 110W 32-bit slot. It looks from connector pinout
in the Technical Reference
Guide that the C8000 has a AGP 1.5V motherboard (pins 9, 16, 25 and 28
are VCC 1.5).
The HP "supported" FireGL cards are 1.5V, 0.8V:
http://www.synthmind.com/737-18872ATIAGPGraphicsCards-AGPComplianceDetails.pdf
So, I think one needs to look for a 1.5V or Universal AGP card. The
first ATI AGP card to
support 1.%V appears to be RAGE 128 PRO.
These articles give info about AGP slots and what works electrically:
http://www.playtool.com/pages/agpcompat/agp.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerated_Graphics_Port
Dave
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