Im getting crashes and lockups with a Voodoo2 card and a Matrox G200 card installed in the same system. Is there a fix?
This is a problem with Matrox G200 cards. The G200 sometimes uses more memory than it reports to Windows and it overlaps into the Voodoo2’s memory space. Here’s a post from Jason I got off VoodooExtreme that explains the problem and known fixes: “Apparently, the G200 and Voodoo2 have neighboring memory addresses. This wouldnt be a problem except for that one of the cards is using more than it says and the addresses are overlapping, causing crashes and lockups and really slow 2D. In Win95 you can solve the problem by going to the Device Manager and changing the Voodoo2’s memory range. In WinNT it’s a different story. There is apparently no way of changing a cards memory address, and I’ve even spoken with Matrox. The “tech’s” solution was to remove my voodoo2. Since that’ll be a cold day in hell, I’ve been looking for other REAL solutions but have yet to come up with any. There are people talking about this problem all over the news groups. I’ve already spoken to Ant over at the MURC and
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