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Help with VL Bus problem urgently required

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From: Geoff Hurlock
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 1995 00:00
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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:
	
-------------------------------------------------
VL2		JP74	JP75
Slave		1-2	1-2	
Master/slave	2-3	2-3	
--------------------------------------------------
VL3		JP76	JP77
Slave		1-2	1-2	
Master/slave	2-3	2-3			
---------------------------------------------------

Should I move the SVGA to a different VL slot?

Any idea what jumper settings I should use

Any help would be gratefully received! 

Could it be that the VL Super I/O card is faulty?

At present I am inclined to believe that it is my ineptitude that is
the problem {;-(

Perhaps a chat on IRC (?which channel) or by 'phone might be useful...

Many thanks	
Geoff

email geoff@xanadu.u-net.com
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From: geoff@xanadu.u-net.com (Geoff Hurlock)
Subject: Help with VL Bus problem urgently required
Date: 1995/12/02
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