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Re: DMA TEST FAIL !!! WHat is this?

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From: David Longley
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 23:17
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In article <30f922f0.19386626@nuntius.u-net.net>
           chris@gategart.u-net.com "Chris Wilson" writes:

> On Tue, 09 Jan 96 10:14:57 GMT, David Longley
> <David@longley.demon.co.uk> allegedly wrote:
> 
> 
> >Anyone seen this before?
> 
> Yes, I have had a <lot> of trouble with early Oak cards and
> drivers.Bin it and try another card brand.I always thought <I> had my
> share of problems with hardware.You seem to be making my life seem
> plain sailing , at the moment. <g>
>                    Regards, 
>                            Chris Wilson.
>                 (Gatesgarth Racing Developments)
>                           Gatley,Cheshire,England.
> 
Well,  I have been using a fair mixture of systems over the  past 
three months:

386/20DX ISA
386/25SX ISA
2 x P120 Endeavours
P133 Endeavour
486DX4-100 Mainboard PCI Bus 486
Ambra DX2-66
P24T-S VLB
486DX-33 VLB
486SX-25 VLB

The main problem has been the DX100- PCI Mainboard 486.

It's  now got a Compaq 386/20s 256K VGA card in as a Stealth  PCI 
2MB  VRAM  produces  *nothing* on the  screen,  not  even  setup. 

Clearing  CMS  and specifying that VGA is in PCI  just  does  not 
help.  Going back to the Compaq ISA card and putting a  PCI  SCSI 
card  in  the machine (AHA2940) just results in  the  SCSI  light 
staying on....

Has  anyone else had trouble with video cards in PCI  slots  this 
way?


-- 
David Longley
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From: David Longley <David@longley.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,demon.tech.pc,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: DMA TEST FAIL !!! WHat is this?
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 96 23:17:44 GMT
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