Original IBM AT and VGA

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From: Michael R. Volow
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1989 22:39

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Will the original 6 MHz IBM AT support VGA cards without bios changes?
We were trying to get a Video 7 VGA-16 card to work with such a com-
uter, and could not get the comuputer to recognize it as a color card,
no matter how we configured any settings (including the mono-color 
display switch in the AT, dip settings on the  Video 7, or variations
in the Setup configuration of the AT). It worked once when we moved it
to an 8-bit slot but then mysteriously went back to mono. It will 
display, but in monochrome only. Any help would be appreciated. If you
have responded to a similar posting by me yesterday already, no need to
respond to this one. But we urgently need some advice on this problem.
Thanks in advance.

M Volow, VA Medical Center, Durham, NC 27705
mvolo@ecsvax.UUCP           919 286 0411

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From: mvolo@ecsvax.UUCP (Michael R. Volow)
Newsgroups: micro.ibm,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Original IBM AT and VGA
Keywords: IBM AT VGA
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Date: 22 Jun 89 22:39:00 GMT
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