re do the mb ati ultra pro and bit windows drivers work in article ut emx uucp reza magellan ae utexas edu alireza vali writes hi there we just bought a dx gateway system with a meg ati ultra pro video card everything seems to work fine except for the windows drivers for x bit and x and x bit modes the fonts and icons start deteriorating after windows startup and within minutes of use everything on the screen is totally unintelligible naturally i called gateway tech support to inquire about this the technician asked me about the drivers and i told him it was version build he told me that the and bit drivers for the ati ultra pro simply do not work is this true if so i m simply amazed how could this be the strange thing is i would have expected to see some discussion on here unless the subject has made the faq one very suspicious point that came up later was that he stated that none of the windows accelerator boards have working and or bit drivers for windows i easily challenged him on that because i ve been running a diamond x in bit mode at home for months now and i have tested and used the bit mode as well he then backed off and said well diamond has been working on those drivers much longer anyway i just wanted to see if anyone else had any trouble and what they did about it any feedback will be appreciated the system configuration is gateway dx local bus megs ram scsi hd cd rom ultrastor f local bus scsi controller ati ultra pro local bus with mb vram dos windows mach drivers version build i have been able to successfully use both and bit color modes on my gateway system although my setup is less complicated than yours it sounds as if you may have a hardware conflict or problem is your memory aperture above m i have heard rumors of incompatibilities with that scsi card with a variety of systems call up gateway and give them hell until they help you fix it dan daniel matthew coleman internet dcoleman utxvms cc utexas edu dcoleman ccwf cc utexas edu the university of texas at austin decnet utxvms dcoleman electrical computer engineering bitnet dcoleman utxvms bitnet
