Haig or anyone, Identification of card in card's bios

[Snake-Eyes]

I've asked this question in another topic in the past, but really never got a clear answer (it was inresponse to someone else's topic anyway).

I ran MXInfo on my G400Max yesterday, and nowhere in the loads of information it displayed was the card identified as a Max. In fact, one line of the information did say that it was a G400 dual head 32MB, or something very similar.

I've also noticed that Win98 refuses to recognise the card as a Max when I install drivers, even if I manually select the G400Max from the drivers available. If I choose that, Win98 says that this driver isn't compatible with my hardware (theoretically doesn't matter, since all G400's use the same drivers, just different clock rates, with/without DH).

My question boils down to this- Are all Max's this way, or has my card's bios somehow got the wrong info written to it?

I did flash the bios to bring it up to the latest on the Matrox site, right after getting the card, so I guess I could have done something to cause this (not broken, just misidentified).

Any help or information is really appreciated.

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[kooguy]

That was brought up already. Same thing with my MAX. Doesn't affect the cards performance in anyway, just a tad annoying. It's like that with most of the MAXs that people have here. Although I did hear one person say they could pick G400 MAX at the setup screen.

Also, you don't have to use any tool to identify your card to see if it's a MAX or not. Just go to the information tab in the display properties. Everytihng is correct there. At least for me.

[Snake-Eyes]

I'll check my info tab when I get home this evening then. Thinking about it, if I remember correctly, there wasn't a choice for G400Max in the BIOS upgrade util, just G400 16 MB SH, G400 32 MB DH, etc. So maybe it's just changed since I flashed the BIOS. As you said, it doesn't appear to have affected the card's operation (or default settings) at all. I'm just curious about it, is all.

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[Maggi]

I may be wrong, but a.f.a.i.k. is PowerDesk the only application that can distinguish between Vanillas and MAXes.

All other seem to identify those card as Millennium G400 DualHead ...

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Cheers,
Maggi
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Working Rig:
Asus P2B-DS @ 103MHz FSB
Double Pentium III-450 @ 464 MHz
4 x 128MB CAS2 SDRAM
Matrox Millennium G400 32MB DualHead
Nokia 445Xi (21")
Nokia 447Xpro (17")

Home Rig:
Asus P2B-S Bios 1010 @ 112MHz FSB
Celeron 300A @ 504MHz
2 x 128MB CAS2 SDRAM
Matrox Millennium G400 32MB DualHead @ 150/200MHz
CTX VL710T (17")

[kooguy]

Really? PD is the only util that can identify MAX and Vanilla? Man, lucky there is at least one tab that shows that then in PD. If not, some people that always look to the dark side of things might start to tear their hair out thinking they got a Vanilla

[Ashley]

The MAX should have a unique PCI subsystem ID of 0x217D. Is that what you were asking?

[agallag]

Other then that little tidbit that ashley mentioned, the only internal difference between them is the ramdac speed and the memory speed. unless a program is looking specifically for that ID, it's going to see them both as identical.