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keating@rex.cs.tulane.edu (John W. Keating) writes:

>I have a little(?) problem here that maybe you folks out in Netland might
>be able to help me with.  I'm running a 286-12 Compuadd machine with an ATI
>VGAWonder video card.  Upon loading Telix v3.11, my sytem crashes, leaving
>the BIOS version information on the screen.  The machine has an Award BIOS
>if that helps.  Underneath the BIOS display during bootup, the four-digit
>number 3588 appears.  Does this mean anything to anybody?  Does anyone else
>have this problem with ATI's VGAWonder and Telix?

>Any help would earn you my undying gratitude...  Thanks in advance...

>    -John
>-- 

   This one has me stumped.

   I have run Telix in all it's permutations on an AST Xformer (10Mhz AT 
replacement planar) with the ATI VGA Wonder/NEC 3D combination.  Never has 
there been a problem with the video routines (I won't discuss the modem 
setup, that is between me and Avatex :) ).  For the record, the ATI card 
was setup as follows...
In EEPROM on the VGA board:
    VGA mode
    NEC 3D monitor default
    16-bit ROM operation

This worked whether I had the ROM shadowed in RAM with the ATI driver or 
not.  Your mileage may vary, but I suggest if you have it to disable
SHADOW RAM operation of the video ROM and use the ATI alone.  If that 
behaves then try loading the ATI.SYS driver and see how that works.  If all
else fails, change the slot you have the ATI card in (from 16 to an 8-bit),
run the VCONFIG program and set 8-bit operation and see what you get.

My VGA Wonder has been shipped back to the factory for modification (RF 
emission sensitivity, older board), so I can't tell you off-hand what any
of these settings do with my system.  The ATI Graphics Solution CGA+ card
is doing the job with no modifications to Telix in the interim though...
 
Hope this helps.
 
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