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Re: Power up PC and NEC 3D

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From: Richard Maine
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 1990 20:59
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On 3 Mar 90 17:38:00 GMT, stuart.rose@canremote.uucp (STUART ROSE) said:

STUART> The monitor MUST be turned on first for the ATI card to recognize
STUART> that the monitor is indeed a VGA type. If turned on last, or there
STUART> is a race condition, the ATI VGA Wonder defaults to EGA.

STUART> I always turn on my monitor first, and turn it off first.

I have my NEC 3D and 25MHzh clone with an ATI VGA Wonder card on the
same power strip and never have any such problems.  But then, I also
used ATI's VSETUP program to setup the ATI card to expect a NEC 3D
specifically.  This might help.

--

Richard Maine
maine@elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov [130.134.64.6]
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From: maine@elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov (Richard Maine)
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Subject: Re: Power up PC and NEC 3D
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