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In article <49s96u$hkn@sam.inforamp.net>
           craigf@inforamp.net "Craig Faichney" writes:

>In article <30c0bf4d.1831089@news.u-net.com>, geoff@xanadu.u-net.com (Geoff
> Hurlock) says:
>>
>>Can someone please help me....
>>
>>My system was perfect until I upgraded from a ISA to a VL bus Super
>>I/O card.  Note: already had VL bus SVGA card which worked perfectly.
>>
>>Symptoms:
>>4 warning beeps on boot up
>>Windoze (WFWG 3/11) failed after initial Logo screen - back dos with
>>the message "error loading 256_1280.drv"
>>
>>After wasting hours doing this and doing that I am now of the opinion
>>that I needed to change some jumpers to get the two VL bus devices to
>>work.  I am up and running again solely because I've put the old ISA
>>I/O card back in (aforesaid symptoms disappeared).  But I need the new
>>one to run my new Quad CD-ROM due to need for extra IDE i/face
>>(already got 2 hard drives)  :-(   
>>
>>There are 3 VL bus slots.  
>>
>>The vesa SVGA card occupies VL3 - labelled "Slave" in the manual
>>The new I/O card "was" in VL2 - which is marked "master/slave"
>>Presumably the third VL slot is VL1
>>
>>The manual gives the following Jumper info:
>>        
>You almost had it. All video cards want priority. Put your SVGA card
>into the VL1 slot.

You mean that video cards are masters ?

Why would they want tp be masters ?  They don't need to initiate or
control transfers of data off the card do they ?

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John Beardmore