Need help to ID old 3DLabs based vid card

Decius

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Doing a full reinstall for a friend and he has this video card which i can't ID. It's a PCI vid card, with two 3DLabs GPUs on board. Included some pics, maybe you'll be able to help. Click on the images to make them bigger. Need to know what kind of card it is and where I can find drviers for it. Thought since this isn't your everyday vid card, I'd bring it to tha boyz in the Techie forum.

Please

Front of Video Card
Back of Video Card
Some Cirrus Logic Chipset, possibly the video BIOS
Digital Equipment Chipset, unknown function
Copyright Info

Sorry guys, no FCC ID that I could see print on th PCB. And the copyright info in NO help either. PLease help!!!
 

Decius

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Sweet!! That's gotta be the right card. Looks exactly like it, and the owner of the card said something about it having an "Oxygen 2-something chip." Thanks!!!! Now all I need to get is the drivers for Win2K, which'll be no prob!!!
 

Evadman

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my god, that is an $800 card? Ouch.

<edit> well, it was 899 :p
 

CTho9305

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if you have an unknown video card in a computer... the hard way to ID it:
start->run "debug"
then type "dc000:0000" wihtout the quotes and press enter
press d and then enter as necessary until you see the card's information


<<
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\>debug
-dc000:0000
C000:0000 55 AA 4C EB 4B 37 34 30-30 E9 4C 19 77 CC 56 49 U.L.K7400.L.w.VI
C000:0010 44 45 4F 20 0D 00 00 00-E8 00 AB 1E 00 00 49 42 DEO ..........IB
C000:0020 4D 20 56 47 41 20 43 6F-6D 70 61 74 69 62 6C 65 M VGA Compatible
C000:0030 01 00 00 00 80 10 98 96-31 30 2F 33 31 2F 30 31 ........10/31/01
C000:0040 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
C000:0050 E9 5D 0A 00 62 14 08 88-E9 F5 1D E9 FD 1D 50 4D .]..b.........PM
C000:0060 49 44 58 00 5B 00 00 00-00 A0 00 B0 00 B8 00 C0 IDX.[...........
C000:0070 00 5B FF 7F 4E 56 00 05-11 C8 1F 80 10 00 05 03 .[..NV..........
-d
C000:0080 00 00 00 00 98 01 A1 02-6D 01 EA 04 00 00 00 00 ........m.......
C000:0090 00 01 50 00 F2 15 71 28-D1 8C 2B 8D B9 8D 6E 8D ..P...q(..+...n.
C000:00A0 82 8D 62 03 85 03 06 03-00 01 01 00 3F 3E 37 36 ..b.........?>76
C000:00B0 67 00 00 00 00 00 E8 03-00 00 F4 01 00 92 01 98 g...............
C000:00C0 01 98 01 98 01 98 01 98-01 98 01 00 00 00 00 00 ................
C000:00D0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
C000:00E0 00 00 00 18 96 00 00 00-50 43 49 52 DE 10 2D 00 ........PCIR..-.
C000:00F0 00 00 18 00 00 00 00 03-4C 00 01 00 00 80 00 00 ........L.......
-d
C000:0100 4E 56 49 44 49 41 20 54-4E 54 32 20 4D 6F 64 65 NVIDIA TNT2 Mode
C000:0110 6C 20 36 34 20 56 47 41-20 42 49 4F 53 0D 0A 00 l 64 VGA BIOS...
C000:0120 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
C000:0130 4D 53 49 4E 38 38 30 38-4D 53 00 32 30 30 00 00 MSIN8808MS.200..
C000:0140 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
C000:0150 00 56 65 72 73 69 6F 6E-20 33 2E 30 35 2E 30 30 .Version 3.05.00
C000:0160 2E 31 30 2E 36 37 20 0D-0A 00 43 6F 70 79 72 69 .10.67 ...Copyri
C000:0170 67 68 74 20 28 43 29 20-31 39 39 36 2D 32 30 30 ght (C) 1996-200
>>

 

Decius

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Yeah I did a debug on the vid card, but I entered dc000:35. Unfortunately that only gave me video bios info. Since the Cirrus Logic video bios on this card is used on about 2000000 other cards (note: figure is approximate, lol), that wasn't much use to me. But thanks for that little trick. I'll remember that debug range for next time.