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Hardware / Re: SNAP Driver Source
« on: August 24, 2025, 05:09:25 pm »Quote
Making an educated guess based on what is written it means you can for example use PCI cards that still have legacy support. Such as an old video card.
Generally speaking, yes. You have to use an adapter to plug the PCI card into the PCIe slot because of electrical and physical differences - the two use different voltages for example. And some adapters do not work - but the adapter from Startech does. You can even plug multiple PCI cards into PCIe slots in the same motherboard - each with an adapter. I currently have an Intel PCI network adapter and a QualTech multiport serial card plugged in one of my machines; the Intel network card because it is MUCH faster with netbios than the Realtek chip/driver on the motherboard. This allows you to find and use hardware that matches older OS/2 specific drivers.
As for video cards: you could use an old PCI video card with an adapter but you really don't need to. PCIe was becoming a thing right at the end of SNAP's development and you can find lots of PCIe video cards that work with SNAP. There will be a presentation on this at Warpstock US in November.
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As I typed before as time moves on supporting CSM for old operating systems makes less and less senseUnfortunately this is true - and it appears that Intel already made that decision for most of its product line. The good news though is that processors production runs are much longer than they used to be. The AMD Ryzen 5 5600X that I am currently using was released in November 2020 and is still for sale at Microcenter (as of this morning) now almost 5 years later - along with motherboards that support the processor. The end of CSM is coming, but we have a few years before it vanishes - at least on the AMD side.