Article View: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Article #12260Re: Help with VL Bus problem urgently required
From: Craig Faichney
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 1995 00:00
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 1995 00:00
29 lines
2009 bytes
2009 bytes
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.
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<49s96u$hkn@sam.inforamp.net>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mailReferences:
<30c0bf4d.1831089@news.u-net.com>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1036bc,f76f7e89d15c777a X-Google-Attributes: gid1036bc,public X-Google-Thread: f53ba,f76f7e89d15c777a X-Google-Attributes: gidf53ba,public X-Google-Thread: 109e38,f76f7e89d15c777a X-Google-Attributes: gid109e38,public X-Google-Thread: f4bb2,f76f7e89d15c777a X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bb2,public X-Google-Thread: 10bb54,f76f7e89d15c777a X-Google-Attributes: gid10bb54,public From: craigf@inforamp.net (Craig Faichney) Subject: Re: Help with VL Bus problem urgently required Date: 1995/12/03 Message-ID: <49s96u$hkn@sam.inforamp.net> X-Deja-AN: 121374393 references: <30c0bf4d.1831089@news.u-net.com> organization: You want it *when*?! newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,alt.2600,demon.tech.pc