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Iopener Serial Port hack and the BEST vid driver out there NOW!! with some good fixes
Iopener Serial Port hack

New MessageIopener Serial Port hack and the BEST vid driver out there NOW!! with some good fixes (modified 0 times) mp3boombox
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Welp many people have been asking me about these and yes i'm Making them for people $40+shipping not bad at all for the price of the parts UGH
but its a max235 serial port chip with a 10pin mini connector like the IDE onebut only 10pin then on the other side of the chip are wires leading to a serial port adapter. JUST cut a hole in the case or put it where every and and plug it in. and you'v got a working serial port with ALL WORKING line's but no 12v supply. MOST all things should work. I'v yet to find any thing that doesnt work off the serial port.

Berinc@acadia.net drop me a line

TL082 dual op-amp audio hack's also, $30+shipping just solder 4 wires hot glue them and drill a hole for the audio jack then screw it in TIGHTLY. 1,2,3..6 done perfict cd quality to any set of powerd speakres or sterio. but its not great for head phones unless there VERY LOW power.

I'v been building these for people. though the audio one's take a lot more time to build

Some time i'm goignt o put up a web page with lots of pic's and info on my mod's

like serial, cpu, audio, cdrom just to name a few.


Oh yes many people have been addressing the VIDEO driver problem with win98 SE and the back light not shutting off. :) i'v got a simple problem fixer for you!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok this is realy tricky, go to the microsoft update util in windos by hitting the start button then windows updates. NOW once you'v gotten to the page you need to click on the PRODUCT UPDATES link which will bring you to some updates. you need only 2 updates, one is already checked for you the critical updates. Seccond one is now at the VERY BOTTEM of the page OH LOOK its your video card :) this cyberblade driver supports BOTH the shutting off of the backlight AND setting your system ram usage for your video card all in one and every thing works just nice :) I'd also suggest having dx8 installed but thats upto you. THOUGH i never install directx unless its the first time after FRESHLY installing winblows.

I do strongly reccomend using this vid driver. :) happy hunting
ANY ONE GET A DEER yet?? my bud just tagged one!! 10 pointer

12-09-2000 12:18:26

New MessageRE:Iopener Serial Port hack and the BEST vid driver out there NOW!! with some good fixes (modified 0 times) mp3boombox
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on ckbone's newest post Video Driver Warning!!!!

please read my latest information i posted befor you try using this new vid driver i will admit i didnt talk about the best WAY to use the new driver. If done worng it CAN cause problems yes that is true but go read my latest post. its a long one but its a GOOD one and you may find your self saying HUM i fall in that category so i better not do that like that just yet but maby this or that method hum, GOOD point. Better to be aware of things befor you jump on them but the benifiets are good if used correctly.
If any one has jumped the GUN and is having problems again sarry. i should have explained my self a little better.

if you dont want to do any of the methods and have jumped the gun by installing the very new and improved version of the software. My suggestion to you is load the windows defalt vid driver reboot your system or even turn it off for a cold boot
then get into windows and reinstall your OLD vid driver via the windows video driver update button and do the HAVE disk thing, then point to your OLD vid driver. You should be fine.

or try the new one its TOTALY upto you!!

12-10-2000 00:59:49

New MessageRE:Iopener Serial Port hack and the BEST vid driver out there NOW!! with some good fixes (modified 0 times) YouBecha
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New one works fine...unless you have other weird stuff going on apparently (like the pivot software)
http://www.geocities.com/mr_bubba_zanetti/
12-10-2000 06:42:05

New MessageRE:Iopener Serial Port hack and the BEST vid driver out there NOW!! with some good fixes (modified 0 times) parasyght
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With this new vid driver, can we designate more ram than two megs to the video card? I read in another post that anything more than 2 megs was not nessary because the type of lcd display it has. Is this true? Have you noticed a performance increase with the new drivers? Can you please post the driver on x-drive or a website?
12-10-2000 11:02:14

New MessageRE:Iopener Serial Port hack and the BEST vid driver out there NOW!! with some good fixes (modified 0 times) mp3boombox
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yes you can set more RAM with the new driver BUT is it worth it?? i dont know. its upto you. to me running 800 res at 2megs works just fine. and you cant realy do any thing other then 2d so ? hehe i dont realy think its worth the effert to set the mem up. if any thing 4megs at most. It would just help large graphics load faster but then again your AGP sys mem is there also so ;) you'v realy got more then what you set the VID memory to anyways and its comming from the same place :).
12-10-2000 11:39:46

New MessageRE:Iopener Serial Port hack and the BEST vid driver out there NOW!! with some good fixes (modified 0 times) Mitchell
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I recently found some newer (at least to me) vid drivers for the iopener
here: http://www.zdsftp.com/support/itemnr/NECFIUP03660100.html
They solved my 'monitor not completely shutting down' via power management
in win98se. Hope this helps at least one soul.
01-20-2001 17:08:51

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