Windows Drivers for the Avid Targa 3000/3100

[Jakob Viggo hansen]

Hi Jason,

Being on a similar quest to yours, i’ve located drivers for the 3200 board, which I think is sufficiently similar to the 3100 to work.

They are version 2.4 for Win2K.

Please note: these drivers are not specifically intended for AVID. I think they’re generic?

Drop me a line, if you’re interested.

Kind Regards
Jakob

[Jason Roberts]

Jakob, Thanks a bunch for your email. I certainly could use the drivers. my email address is jason.robertssiii@gmail.com

[Gerry Lawson]

Hi Jason,

I just picked up one of these boards from EBay and managed to track down the drivers for the Targa 3000. I tried to email you but the address from your above post bounced back at me.

For many of the drivers try the links at the following website.

https://www.pinnacle.fr/PublicSite/as/Products/Broadcast+Products/Other+Broadcast+Products/Other/TARGA+3000+Support/Updates+_+Patches+_+Utilities/Software+Updates/TARGA3000v1_5Full_zip.htm?mode=view

I know long url.

Some links are broken. You can try the following for the Targa 3000 1.51 driver

https://cdn.pinnaclesys.com/SupportFiles/T3k_1_5_1.zip

Please let me know if these drivers work for you and what hardware you are using with the 3100 board.

If you have any troubles let me know and I can upload the drivers somewhere.

cheers,
gerry

[Jason Roberts]

Hullo Gerry,

Thanks a bunch for getting me these drivers, I really appreciate your efforts.

Remember anytime you find yourself in the metro Vancouver area of British Columbia you have a friend you can count on.

Cheers

JR

[Gerry Lawson]

Hi Jason,

Funny you should mention… my car could use digging out 😉

I live near Fraser and King Edward in East Van.

Let me know how the drivers work out – I should be getting my card around New Years.

gerry

[Andras Anderson]

Hello sorry to bump the subject after twelve years but it’s the only place have seen where i can find the targa 3200 driver, is by any chance that anyone still have the driver ?

[Piotr Gliźniewicz]

For anyone bumping here in the future: this is the archived version of the 1.5.1 drivers: https://web.archive.org/web/20120215202210/http://cdn.pinnaclesys.com/SupportFiles/T3k_1_5_1.zip

[Mark Godwin]

Thanks a lot for archiving these drivers. I got two Targa 3000 with Digital Tether port, but I have real issues about the computer system where they can be fitted. I’m trying on a old HP XW8000 dual Xeon workstation who has 64 bit PCI slots. Can you tell me the computer specifications where you using the Targa 3000?

[Mark Godwin]

We are in 2024 but I’m still trying to get my Targa 3100 working. I have no luck. As I launch Discreet Edit 6.5 , it does not find the hardware and crashes. Same for Premiere 6.5, it crashes after some loading. I have Targa drivers 1.5.1 , the workstation is an HP XW8000 Intel E7505 chipset, dual Xeon 3.2 “Gallatin” CPU , 4 GB of Ram, ATI X1950 Pro VGA AGP and T3K is inserted into one of the 64bit 100MHz PCI-X slots. The driver installation process itself is fine but as I launch any application supporting Targa hardware, it crashes! The Targa Board Monitor and system test running just fine without issues…Maybe I do need an older computer with different chipset/processor? Maybe I have a memory conflict? How to fix? In the system BIOS there is not so many parameters. Thanks for who will read and spend a word.

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Mark,

I loved the old *edit system, but AtoDesk/Discreet killed it – never forgiven them for putting 2 of my editing suites on the scrap-pile, without offering an alternative.

Anyway, water under the bridge.

Are you on Windows NT?

Sounds a bit crazy, but have you thought of getting a “spare” on eBay?
There is a link on this posting to a 3100 card:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/234518565978?itmmeta=01JCC2ZWEEDTW9DEGCRTXX64D4&hash=item369a65545a:g:QzYAAOSwtWpglD6s&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAAwMxmj%2BiGvOveHXEBClPb29j7AKvZqrc%2FzFCLDWZ3KRs%2BohQRjf6dMzPWhkJtu6WlsGk8ztsvdTvSZpiFHzLDMbV25vMaFH%2BJXA5BEbtWzkTGpEOLw121FcG%2F5qU06oyAYILVTYVd30GB9LECuu2Kv5SfRPV0Ef8ftfRS6GzAKRYV9W4UM2iPPGfciStWmlq6KanPHlETtes6pgsW0o1iWPXZh5s54Seb5NB0BZpw3SWkUKeTBzNrjxHUKcFkue2zmw%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR6bH_4LjZA

Maybe do a call-out, I don’t know where, but there is still some of the people lurking around who used to work for companies that did the integration and technical support of *edit systems.

Avid has recently got new owners, and a lot of people left the organisation, maly for retirement. But maybe Avid has the drivers and documentation on a shelve, or would know a specialist internally (employed or retired) that might be kind enough to help you.

The obvious question is how much money you want to spend v Return on that Investment?

I’ll keep a look out as I may still have some of the old CD-Roms lying around, byt my systems was Targa-2000, so can’t promise. Adding, that these days I am in the habit of throwing out drivers that I no longer need.

Hope this helps?

Atb
Mads

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