S3 w/ GENDAC DAC

I have the same problem as many others who own S3 video cards with
GENDACDACs.

SVGA.EXE will lock up the video card.  It doesn't matter if it is run in
MSDOS, OS2 MDOS full screen; or as part of the Video driver installation
process; it just locks up the video card and a hard boot (power off) is
required to restore the system.

Having read some messages on internet about other people having success
getting their system up, I thought I'd try it.  The suggestion was to try it
under MSDOS.  Well, that didn't work for me because it still crashed under
MSDOS.

Then, I remember having the same problem under WARP II beta.  The way I
got around it was that I ran SVGA.EXE on a machine w/ a S3 Video card
and a RAMDAC DAC, and then copied the SVGADATA.PMI file to the machine
with the GENDAC video card.

The same works for Warp GA as well.

1) Download the file in the files area: GENDACS3.ZIP
2) Unzip the file and you will find SVGADATA.S3 and OSVGA.EXE (from OS2 2.1).
3) Rename SVGA.EXE in your OS2 directory to WSVGA.EXE
4) Copy OSVGA.EXE to your OS2 directory as SVGA.EXE
5) Run the selective install and choose S3-805
6) The system WILL finish the installtion process because it will not hang
   when it runs SVGA.EXE (because it's running the OS/2 2.1 SVGA.EXE, which
   works with the GENDAC DAC.)
7) After the video drivers are installed, copy SVGADATA.S3 to your OS2
   directory as SVGADATA.PMI
8) Open up the SYSTEM icon under SYSTEM SETTINGS and select the resolution
   and refresh rate under the MONITOR tab.
9) Reboot and enjoy.

If you have any problems/questions, I can be reached at via internet at
george_lin@mindlink.bc.ca

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George Lin
Vancouver, BC
Canada