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Re: Help with VL Bus problem urgently required

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From: Craig Faichney
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 1995 00:00
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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.
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From: craigf@inforamp.net (Craig Faichney)
Subject: Re: Help with VL Bus problem urgently required
Date: 1995/12/03
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