. . . for $4.99 “as is” and it “is as” good as working!
Not only that, but when I had to switch the “stock” Video Card outta the Quicksilver 2002 to test this funny-connector totin' CRT, I might have found the second of two problems with this aggravating QS'02 in the process! The first was a bad stick of RAM, which had given me fits to begin with.
The X install it shipped with worked fine, but when I booted straight into 9.2.2, the machine froze and I couldn't even get back into X . . .
AAARRRGGGHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
. . . OK then! After loading the factory fresh OS 9 CDs onto a brand spankin' new 500 Gig HDD, the freakin' thing would boot-n-freeze EVERY TIME, but it ran just fine w/extensions off . . . BIG WHOOP . . . so I moved on to other things before I . . .
. . . did something . . . erm . . . regrettable . . . to that SlowSilver P*O*O*M! [}
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The main reason I bought the QS '02 was for the Twin-Head capable 64 MB NVIDIA Video Card. I'd already snagged the 32 MB version on eBay. At the time, I figured I'd gone just a little bit overboard with the NVIDIA 64's “packaging” and happened to wind up with the second fastest native booting 9.2.2 box that Apple ever made. The connectors seemed all wrong at the time, given what I'd been told to expect on the VidCard, but what did I know about “newer” Video Cards? It had an HDI-15, so I was a happy camper and never really checked it out.
Turns out that “stock” Video Card isn't quite what was advertised in the auction, so the “stock” OS 9 drivers weren't doing diddly squat for it . . .
. . . cause it's a freakin' ATI Radeon 9800 PRO MAC 256M! 8-o
Maybe I can find the drivers for THAT one! Meanwhile, the NVIDIA 32, that I COULDN'T locate any drivers for, seems to be as happy as a pig in poop! It's running that, newly liberated, Clear 17” Studio Display at 1280 x 1024 x millions, using whatever drivers it found on the HDD or on the monitor!
STRANGE DAY! But a very good one! [
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Not only that, but when I had to switch the “stock” Video Card outta the Quicksilver 2002 to test this funny-connector totin' CRT, I might have found the second of two problems with this aggravating QS'02 in the process! The first was a bad stick of RAM, which had given me fits to begin with.
The X install it shipped with worked fine, but when I booted straight into 9.2.2, the machine froze and I couldn't even get back into X . . .
AAARRRGGGHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
. . . OK then! After loading the factory fresh OS 9 CDs onto a brand spankin' new 500 Gig HDD, the freakin' thing would boot-n-freeze EVERY TIME, but it ran just fine w/extensions off . . . BIG WHOOP . . . so I moved on to other things before I . . .
. . . did something . . . erm . . . regrettable . . . to that SlowSilver P*O*O*M! [}
] ]'>The main reason I bought the QS '02 was for the Twin-Head capable 64 MB NVIDIA Video Card. I'd already snagged the 32 MB version on eBay. At the time, I figured I'd gone just a little bit overboard with the NVIDIA 64's “packaging” and happened to wind up with the second fastest native booting 9.2.2 box that Apple ever made. The connectors seemed all wrong at the time, given what I'd been told to expect on the VidCard, but what did I know about “newer” Video Cards? It had an HDI-15, so I was a happy camper and never really checked it out.
Turns out that “stock” Video Card isn't quite what was advertised in the auction, so the “stock” OS 9 drivers weren't doing diddly squat for it . . .
. . . cause it's a freakin' ATI Radeon 9800 PRO MAC 256M! 8-o
Maybe I can find the drivers for THAT one! Meanwhile, the NVIDIA 32, that I COULDN'T locate any drivers for, seems to be as happy as a pig in poop! It's running that, newly liberated, Clear 17” Studio Display at 1280 x 1024 x millions, using whatever drivers it found on the HDD or on the monitor!
STRANGE DAY! But a very good one! [
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