Le_Forgeron wrote:

>> I'm going to go out on a limb and hypothesize that I have a 3.3V card
>> and it won't fit in a 1.5V slot... From these diagrams, that appears to
>> be the case. (There's another key not shown, but the board has no
>> contacts on it, and the slot appears to be mechanical only.)
>>
>> Either way, this doesn't help me... *sigh*
> 
> The AGP kind is in the name of your card S3 Trio3D/*2X*, the card as a x2 AGP port.

Ah, is *that* what that means? I stupidly assumed it ment twice the 3D 
power or something daft like that.

> Nowadays port (well, the latest before PCI-E) was AGP x4/x8
> They are not compatible.
> AGP x2 use 3.3V signaling. You need a motherboard with AGP x2... very old too.
> your card might work with AGPx1 motherboard too.

Heh. Well, these are old, old cards. I decided to keep them as spares, 
but I guess there's pretty useless in that capacity now.

> Another sad news expect you: the video connector... modern LCD have no more VGA
connector!
> (and finding a good CRT is an impossible mission nowaday)

Ah, but they all seem to come with DVI-to-VGA converters. ;-)

> Last note for the card:
> It's not even worth the postal stamp
> 
>
http://www.priceminister.com/offer/buy/5367905/S3-Trio-3D-2X-4-Mo-AGP-2-x-Carte-graphique.html

How interesting... both of those photos look significantly different to 
the product I have here.

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