strike@clmqt.marquette.Mi.US (Tim Bowser) (02/19/90)
References: <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. >Rick >-- > Rick Ward | E.I. Dupont Co. > uunet!eplrx7!ward | Engineering Physics Lab > (302) 695-7395 | Wilmington, Delaware 19898 > Just Say When. | Mail Stop: E357-302 >-- >The UUCP Mailer Check the BIOS of the ATI board. I have had the same problems with this VGA Wonder and machines over 12Mhz in speed. From conversations with the ATI technical department, the revision board I have (1.03, Rev.2 PC board) is fairly sensitive to emissions from the motherboard. There is a modification available from the factory for this board to make it function with noisy high speed motherboards. Be forewarned; shipping the VGA Wonder back to the factory is a trial in itself. With Canadian Customs paperwork and UPS international shipping, trying to get it there by second-day air will run over thirty dollars! I think I could have driven it across the border for less than that. At any rate, call ATI's tech support people (have the ATI worksheet filled out, it saves a LOT of time, and have the board itself available when you call), describe the problem, chances are it will be taken care of fairly quick. I like the ATI card. I want that beggar back quickly, this CGA card I had to plug in for the duration is driving my eyes crazy... -- Tim Bowser ("Strikemaster") | Standard | mailrus!sharkey!clmqt!strike Enterprise Information System | Disclaimer | strike@clmqt.marquette.Mi.US Marquette, Mi. USA | Here | Voice:(906)-346-6735 => UNIX: The Adventure Begins... To vi, or not to vi, that is the question. <=
strike@clmqt.marquette.Mi.US (Tim Bowser) (02/26/90)
References: <1990Feb7.152103.14994@eplrx7.uucp> <511192@nstar.UUCP> larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder) writes: >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 had the same problem which was in the PGC Ultra 14 VGA monitor supplied >by Northgate. Try this trick. With the ATI VGA running in another computer, set it's EEPROM for one of the NEC Multisync monitors. The problem sounds like the card cannot determine what monitor is hooked up to it and locks up. The reason I say one of the Multisyncs is that the card can determine there is a NEC monitor hooked onto it, *but not which model*. This was a problem with the earlier ATI VGA Wonders, now corrected in the Rev. 1.03 and later ROM BIOS. BTW, select a NEC monitor type to correspond with what type you are running if it is multisynchronous. If it isn't, then disregard all of the above. Might try telling it to look for a generic VGA display in that case. Hope something in here helps. -- Tim Bowser ("Strikemaster") | Standard | mailrus!sharkey!clmqt!strike Enterprise Information System | Disclaimer | strike@clmqt.marquette.Mi.US Marquette, Mi. USA | Here | Voice:(906)-346-6735 => UNIX: The Adventure Begins... To vi, or not to vi, that is the question. <=
chan@chansw.UUCP (Jerry H. Chan) (02/27/90)
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. -- Jerry Chan 508-853-0747, Fax 508-853-2262 |"My views necessarily reflect the Chan Smart!Ware Computer Services & Prods | views of the Company because Worcester, MA 01606 | I *am* the Company." :-) {bu.edu,husc6}!m2c!chansw!chan \---------------------------------
larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder) (03/05/90)
In article <1439@chansw.UUCP>, chan@chansw.UUCP (Jerry H. Chan) writes: > 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. I've been running with the ATI VGA wonder boards in my boxes for weeks (months). The only problem that I have run into is that the excessive filtering on the ATI board was creating problems with some monitors getting in sync (like the PGA Ultra 14). -- The Northern Star Public Access Unix Site, Notre Dame, Indiana USA uucp: iuvax!ndmath!nstar!larry internet: larry@nstar USR HST 219-287-9020 * PEP 219-289-3745 * Hayes V9600 219-289-0286