eisen@contact.uucp (Eisen D. Guard) (06/08/90)
I'm having a bit of trouble installing a VGA card and monitor on a new 286 motherboard and I was wondering if anyone else has had similar problems. First, the VGA card is Expert and the monitor is DataTrain. Both work perfectly on a 22Mhz 386 with 4 meg of ram and Phoenix BIOS. The 286 has 640K and "286 Modular BIOS v3.03 (c) Award software GCH". When I start up the 286 the characters are obscured and the screen is filled with lines... when I type, no text appears, it's almost as if the character set has been overwritten, or written to the wrong space in memory. Also, when I boot the 386 it sends a message to the screen that VGA BIOS has been loaded (from the VGA card). The 286 does not do this and in the 286's setup menu it has an option fot EGA, while the 386 has EGA/VGA option. Possible suggestions for this have been 1) Not enough memory and 2) old BIOS. I don't know, are there memory restrictions on running VGA (ie. do you need 1 MEG+ ?). If anyone can help me out, I'd appreciate it. Thanks! -- "_" eisen@contact.uucp Eisen (Warren Thomas) D.(ay) Guard Esq. / Martin Loeffler