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Article #43084Re: Is anyone using a ATI VGA Wonder card with a Northgate
From: Jerry H. Chan
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1990 01:36
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1990 01:36
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In article <1990Feb7.152103.14994@eplrx7.uucp>, ward@eplrx7.uucp (Rick
Ward) writes:
>
> I have a Northgate Elegance 386-25 with a 150 Meg ESDI hard drive.
> My problem is that I cannot get the $%&*#@ing machine to boot with
> the ATI VGA card in it. Has anyone out there gotten this video card
> to work with a Northgate computer? Northgate seems baffled and I'm
> getting tired of waiting for them to figure it out. BTW, the video card
> worked fine in a Zenith 386-25.
I also installed an ATI VGA card in one of my customer's systems, and
it wouldn't BOOT -- system would beep a couple of times signaling video
failure. The system wasn't a Northgate, but it does have a C&T chip
set (does the Northgate?).
The fix: disable VIDEO BIOS SHADOWING on the motherboard.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!husc6!m2c!chansw!chan From: chan@chansw.UUCP (Jerry H. Chan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Is anyone using a ATI VGA Wonder card with a Northgate Summary: Booting w/ATI VGA on 386 machine Message-ID: <1439@chansw.UUCP> Date: 27 Feb 90 01:36:05 GMT References: <1651@clmqt.marquette.Mi.US> Organization: Chan SmartWare Computers, Worcester, MA Lines: 21