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Gigabyte, LCDs, and yellow envelopes

20 08 09 - 23:29 Some of you may have been following the annoying time I've been having with my Gigabyte GTX275. BIOS version F3_C came out today - and it appears to have fixed the "no video on boot" issue completely. I've rebooted many times since then and the problem's fixed. So I guess it's time to possibly play with a bit of overclocking, possibly install more OSes etc now that I actually see the BIOS screens. So, no nasty legal letters to MSY reminding them of their obligations under the Trade Practices Act to actually do something about defective gear.

In other news, the LCDs have been shipped, and the DX package containing the video converter has shipped.

Unfortunately I have been told that some video converters will not work properly with the C64 because it doesn't actually output proper PAL but a signal at 50.12Hz instead of 50 - but some are perfectly fine. So I just hope mine works - or I guess it's going back to where it came from.

So yeah, the StackBook project is stalled, waiting for a LCD, my graphics card works again, and I still haven't wired up the C64 video cable. Or given you all a schematic for it.

I'll get round to it...