Can anybody tell me what model ATI board this is?

[Guest]

The board is installed on a W2K system. If you look at the back, from
top to bottom, the connectors are:

1) A/V/Out (proprietary cable - round hole)
2) CATV (standard coax connector)
3) AV/Out (proprietary cable - round hole)
4) Monitor (std monitor connector)

The board is a PCI and the inspector software says it's an ATI Rage
Pro wi 8M. The other utility software says it's an ATI Wonder.

So, you'd think it was an ATI Wonder Rage Pro PCI....

The downloaded drivers (when you click W2K, the drivers you get say
they're for XP) for the ATI Wonder Rage Pro family from the ATI site
produce the blue screen of death.

Note: the card is in a Dell GX1. Any ideas how to get this puppy
running?

Oh yah, one other thing. Any idea where I can purchase an AV/Out
cable for it?

 

[Lenroc]

1) A/V/Out (proprietary cable - round hole)
2) CATV (standard coax connector)
3) AV/Out (proprietary cable - round hole)
4) Monitor (std monitor connector)

All AiW cards have those.

The board is a PCI and the inspector software says it's an ATI Rage
Pro wi 8M. The other utility software says it's an ATI Wonder.

Look at the board and get the ATI part number. You can find the model from
that on their site, IIRC.

It may actually say the model on the card itself.

 

[Alan Shepherd]

Not too sure that ALL AIW's have the listed connectors - I thought most had
a DVI Monitor Connector, and the Rage Pro gives it away:

I'm pretty sure it's an old 8Mb AIW Rage Pro. Pre-dating the AIW Rage 128 by
a significant margin, and therefore no longer officially supported by Ati
for Win2000 and later.

8Mb All In Wonder Rage Pro - came in 2 flavours PCI and AGP (x1 & x2?).

 

[J.Clarke]

All AiW cards have those.

The AIW8500DV has a large square proprietary connector and a DVI-I
monitor connector. The more recent models go back to the two round
connectors for the A/V cables but continue the DVI-I.

 

[Phydeaux]

The board is installed on a W2K system. If you look at the back, from
top to bottom, the connectors are:

1) A/V/Out (proprietary cable - round hole)
2) CATV (standard coax connector)
3) AV/Out (proprietary cable - round hole)
4) Monitor (std monitor connector)

The board is a PCI and the inspector software says it's an ATI Rage
Pro wi 8M. The other utility software says it's an ATI Wonder.

So, you'd think it was an ATI Wonder Rage Pro PCI....

The downloaded drivers (when you click W2K, the drivers you get say
they're for XP) for the ATI Wonder Rage Pro family from the ATI site
produce the blue screen of death.

Note: the card is in a Dell GX1. Any ideas how to get this puppy
running?

Oh yah, one other thing. Any idea where I can purchase an AV/Out
cable for it?

The following debug routine will list the type of video card within your
computer. This is an excellent way of determining the chipset on the card or
the card within your computer without opening the computer.

In DOS or a DOS window at the C:\> prompt type in "debug" (without quotes)
and hit enter

-d c000:0040 (a - sign is the new prompt so make the next line look like
this, then hit enter)

After typing the above command you should receive several lines of text
similar to:

C000:0040 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
.................
C000:0050 E9 63 7B 00 B4 10 49 27 - E9 FE 2B E9 F7 2B 50 4D
..c{...I'..+..+PM
C000:0060 49 44 58 00 5B 00 00 00 - 00 A0 00 B0 00 B8 00 C0
IDX.[...........
C000:0070 00 5B 53 54 42 20 6E 56 - 49 44 49 41 20 54 4E 54 .[STB nVIDIA
TNT
C000:0080 20 76 65 72 2E 20 31 2E - 31 30 20 0D 0A 00 1B 43 ver. 1.10
.....C
C000:0090 6F 70 79 72 69 67 68 74 - 28 43 29 31 39 39 38 20
opyright(C)1998
C000:00A0 53 54 42 20 53 79 73 74 - 65 6D 73 20 49 6E 63 0D STB Systems
Inc.
C000:00B0 0A 00 22 6C 2C 0A 01 00 - C3 50 24 7F E8 60 36 58
..."1,....P$..'6X

You can keep entering -d changing the :0040 value to :0050, :0060, etc.for
more dumps of this data but it should be within the first 2 or 3 dumps.

As you can pick out in the above dump this gives you enough information to
determine the make and the year made on the video card. On line 4 you can
see the make of this video card which in this case is a N VIDIA TNT which
would be the Riva TNT chipset. The next line you notice the version of the
card and finally the line thereafter is the copyright or the year
manufactured generally.


If you are unable to capture any information which looks like the video
card you can also type

-d c000:0090


At the debug prompt (the minus sign -) type in Q [enter]. This should bring
you back to the DOS prompt.

 

[Graeme Ellis]

BTW cables can be bought from ATI, Not expensive.

The board is installed on a W2K system. If you look at the back, from
top to bottom, the connectors are:

1) A/V/Out (proprietary cable - round hole)
2) CATV (standard coax connector)
3) AV/Out (proprietary cable - round hole)
4) Monitor (std monitor connector)

The board is a PCI and the inspector software says it's an ATI Rage
Pro wi 8M. The other utility software says it's an ATI Wonder.

So, you'd think it was an ATI Wonder Rage Pro PCI....

The downloaded drivers (when you click W2K, the drivers you get say
they're for XP) for the ATI Wonder Rage Pro family from the ATI site
produce the blue screen of death.

Note: the card is in a Dell GX1. Any ideas how to get this puppy
running?

Oh yah, one other thing. Any idea where I can purchase an AV/Out
cable for it?

The following debug routine will list the type of video card within your
computer. This is an excellent way of determining the chipset on the card or
the card within your computer without opening the computer.

In DOS or a DOS window at the C:\> prompt type in "debug" (without quotes)
and hit enter

-d c000:0040 (a - sign is the new prompt so make the next line look like
this, then hit enter)

After typing the above command you should receive several lines of text
similar to:

C000:0040 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
................
C000:0050 E9 63 7B 00 B4 10 49 27 - E9 FE 2B E9 F7 2B 50 4D
.c{...I'..+..+PM
C000:0060 49 44 58 00 5B 00 00 00 - 00 A0 00 B0 00 B8 00 C0
IDX.[...........
C000:0070 00 5B 53 54 42 20 6E 56 - 49 44 49 41 20 54 4E 54 .[STB nVIDIA
TNT
C000:0080 20 76 65 72 2E 20 31 2E - 31 30 20 0D 0A 00 1B 43 ver. 1.10
....C
C000:0090 6F 70 79 72 69 67 68 74 - 28 43 29 31 39 39 38 20
opyright(C)1998
C000:00A0 53 54 42 20 53 79 73 74 - 65 6D 73 20 49 6E 63 0D STB Systems
Inc.
C000:00B0 0A 00 22 6C 2C 0A 01 00 - C3 50 24 7F E8 60 36 58
.."1,....P$..'6X

You can keep entering -d changing the :0040 value to :0050, :0060, etc.for
more dumps of this data but it should be within the first 2 or 3 dumps.

As you can pick out in the above dump this gives you enough information to
determine the make and the year made on the video card. On line 4 you can
see the make of this video card which in this case is a N VIDIA TNT which
would be the Riva TNT chipset. The next line you notice the version of the
card and finally the line thereafter is the copyright or the year
manufactured generally.


If you are unable to capture any information which looks like the video
card you can also type

-d c000:0090


At the debug prompt (the minus sign -) type in Q [enter]. This should bring
you back to the DOS prompt.