[comp.sys.ibm.pc] HELP! Paradise VGA 16 Plus Upgrade

schuster@dasys1.uucp (Michael Schuster) (05/28/90)

In article <2746@crash.cts.com> elund@pro-graphics.cts.com (Eric Lund) writes:
>Howdy all.  I own the above named card, and I've heard from various netters
>that an upgrade to 512k and 640x480x256 color mode was possible just from
>adding a row of chips.  So I went out there, bought 8 41464-10's (that's 4x64,

The moral is: don't listen to people who speak of things without personal
knowledge. According to WD Tech Support the VGA Plus 16 IS A NON-UPGRADEABLE
PRODUCT. If you wanted 512K you should have bought the VGA Professional.
It has the extra firmware and chip decode logic on it to support the extra
memory.


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